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Best practice and lesson 9: Adaptation planning with an initial focus on urgent and immediate needs
can capitalize on existing knowledge
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The level of knowledge varies among countries, especially among the LDCs, but at the global and
regional level, through collective efforts, it is very good.
Many Parties have affirmed that it is not necessary to await a complete scientific
understanding of the impacts of climate change before acting, and that in adapting to climate
change, there are many actions that can be undertaken to enhance adaptive capacity and reduce
the impacts and costs of addressing climate change at a later date.
In fact, the necessity to address immediate and urgent adaptation needs that can already be
identified with current knowledge underpins the design of the NAPA. In that respect, the NAPA
is a concept that has a great deal of value in ensuring that LDCs can address immediate known
impacts of climate change while at the same time strengthening their capacity to address and
meet future adaptation needs by building their resilience and enhancing their coping
ability.
The remaining elements of the LDC work programme are also very important in that they were
designed to supplement the NAPAs to bridge the capacity gap in addressing climate change in the
LDCs.
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Best practice: In many countries, the conduct of consultations as part of the
NAPA preparation phase was an opportunity to collect relevant existing information on
vulnerability to climate change from a wide range of stakeholders, including local governments,
grass-roots communities, registered religious groups, associations, NGOs and the private
sector. During the stakeholder consultations, some of the NAPA teams were even provided with
sound examples of traditional and contemporary community-based adaptation that had already been
implemented at the community level. This information was a good starting point for identifying
relevant activities to address urgent and immediate adaptation needs.
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Lesson learned: Some differences can appear between the information provided
by the communities and the information collected at the government level. Often, the
differences are due to the fact that communities tend to be primarily demand-driven while
governments are predominantly politically driven. Therefore, adaptation needs and expectations
both of communities and of governments need to be managed carefully, including through the
identification of relevant adaptation activities by using, for example, a multicriteria
analysis.
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