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Publication date: December 2018
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Abstract
The Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) is mandated to provide technical guidance and advice on considerations regarding vulnerable communities within LDC Parties (see decision 6/CP.16, paragraph 2c). The LEG decided to initiate work on this mandate by developing practical guides on both gender considerations and on vulnerable communities. The gender guide was published in 2016 and is available on NAP Central as part of the supplements to the guidelines for the formulation and implementation of NAPs.
This paper develops technical guidance on the consideration of vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems in the formulation an implementation of NAPs. It builds on work that has focused on vulnerability in broader terms than climate change alone, especially given the fact that vulnerability and exposure arise from non-climatic factors and from multidimensional inequalities often produced by uneven development processes (IPCC, 2014).
It draws upon case studies from the Nairobi work programme of impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (NWP), covering a set of diverse actions and efforts for strengthening the consideration of vulnerable groups, communities and ecosystems in adaptation planning and implementation. The case studies cover a variety of societies, regions and biomes, diversity of adaptation actions, project implementation stage, quality of documentation about the case study, and potential scalability to the national level in the context of NAPs.
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