Credit: UNFCCC

Publication date: August 2023

Abstract

This report considers adaptation projects implemented by the LDCs based on their NAPAs (primarily) and other available instruments. These projects were predominantly funded through the LDCF. Notwithstanding their critical importance and contribution to adaptation achievements in the LDCs, the report does not include the consideration of projects implemented through other channels, such as domestic and bilateral resources. In drawing lessons, the report also provides linkages on the adaptation priorities contained in the NAPs and the potential to further strengthen implementation approaches in subsequent adaptation actions. 

This report is not meant to be exhaustive, but it rather highlights the achievements made by the LDCs in implementing adaptation over the course of the last 20 years. The data collection and analysis of adaptation projects implemented in the LDCs provides a general overview of and trends in key hazards and economic systems within the LDCs. For the purposes of analysing different types of hazards and their specific impacts and response needs, this report addresses them separately. Nevertheless, the importance of a multi-hazard approach cannot be stressed enough to tackle the complex interactions across different economic systems to reduce transaction costs and realize the co-benefits of coherence in an increasingly interconnected world. 

While the analysis focuses on the projects implemented from the NAPAs, there are several instruments and programmes that were implemented in the LDCs that would contribute to the overall efforts. For instance, many of the LDCs were supported to prepare technology needs assessments which in turn helped articulate the adaptation technologies relevant to the implementation of the adaptation actions. Some of the LDCs also implemented adaptation actions that helped build capacity and scale up efforts with support from different programmes such as Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED), the European Union Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA), and the Climate Investment Funds Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience (PPCR).