provia-nap-user-companion-2014-1881719c11b7fa26.pdf

This guide, published by the Stockholm Environment Institute, serves as a companion document that maps the 'PROVIA Guidance on Assessing Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change' to the 'Technical Guidelines for the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Process'. It provides national policy-makers in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and other developing countries with specific methods, tools, and decision trees to implement the various steps of the NAP process, from laying the groundwork and assessing vulnerabilities to implementing and monitoring adaptation strategies.

• The PROVIA Guidance is structured around a five-stage iterative adaptation learning cycle: identifying adaptation needs, identifying adaptation options, appraising adaptation options, planning and implementing adaptation actions, and monitoring and evaluation of adaptation.
• The guide distinguishes between the NAP Technical Guidelines, which are designed for national policy-makers in LDCs and developing countries following specific steps, and the PROVIA Guidance, which is intended for a broader audience across various scales and sectors to address diverse adaptation situations.
• For the 'Lay the groundwork' phase of the NAP, the companion suggests using PROVIA's tools for stakeholder and social network analysis to conduct capacity gap analyses, as well as institutional analysis to identify opportunities for integrating adaptation into development planning.
• In the preparatory phase of analyzing climate scenarios, the guide recommends using statistical methods for trend detection to distinguish climate change from variability and impact attribution to link specific impacts to climatic changes.
• Vulnerability assessments are supported by three main methodological approaches: modelling future impacts (projecting climate and socio-economic scenarios), vulnerability indication (aggregating indicating variables when simulations are not reliable), and knowledge elicitation (using expert judgment and participatory assessments).
• The guide provides a framework for appraising adaptation options, distinguishing between formal decision-making methods—such as multi-criteria analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and robust decision-making—and deliberative or participatory approaches that harmonize actor preferences.
• For monitoring and evaluation (M&E), the guide emphasizes the need to distinguish between process indicators (e.g., number of workshops) and outcome indicators (e.g., changes in behavior) and warns that indicators can implicitly set implementation priorities.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (n.d.). provia-nap-user-companion-2014-1881719c11b7fa26.pdf. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/PROVIA-NAP-user-companion-2014.pdf

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. provia-nap-user-companion-2014-1881719c11b7fa26.pdf. n.d. https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/PROVIA-NAP-user-companion-2014.pdf.

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitutendprovianapusercompanion20141881719c11b7fa26pdf, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{provia-nap-user-companion-2014-1881719c11b7fa26.pdf}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, url = {https://www.sei.org/mediamanager/documents/Publications/Climate/PROVIA-NAP-user-companion-2014.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }