Civil Society Lessons on Influencing National Adaptation policies in Nepal

Civil society lessons on influencing national adaptation policies in Nepal

Southern Voices on Climate Change Workshop

22-23 April, 2014

Kathmandu, Nepal

2010

• National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA)

2011

• Climate Change Policy

2012

• Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA) National Framework

CC Policy Landscape in Nepal

2013• Climate change budget code • Initiate NAP process

Planning to Implementation

VA

Identification of Adaptation

Options

Prioritization

Integration in other development

plans

Implementation

The LAPA framework

Actions on the ground

Hanging Nursery

Seed Banks

Farmer’s School

Farmer’s School

Actions…..

Water conservation practices

Capacity Building – Bottom up planning

Actions…

Linking Practice to Policy

Actions on the Ground

Generation of Evidence - Identification of Gaps

Interaction between policy makers and practitioners

(through roundtables, policy dialogues)

Influencing Policy Making

Climate Policy Discussions in Districts and villages

2011: Implementation Status of CC Policy2012: Implementation Status of NAPA2013: Investigating CC Adaptation finance

National Roundtables: Facilitating dialogues between Policy Makers and Practitioners

From Policy to PracticePolicy formulation National to local level

Adaptation Planning CbA & EbA

Actions on the Ground Capacity Building & Implementation

Monitoring Sustainability & enhancing resilience

Knowledge Platform Learning and Sharing

From policy to practice…

10 %

10 %

80 %

Way forward

National levelo Focus on implementation

rather only planning: 1000s of CAPs, 100s of LAPAs developed but limited attention on implementation

o Identify agents for implementation: there are clearly spelled out goals, objectives and optimistic targets

Regional (South Asia) levelo Foster exchange of

knowledge: We already have a number of good practices to learn from each other

International negotiation levelo Heed to the national

priorities: Development agencies working in /supporting their own preferences

o Speed up the process: CC negotiation has taken lot of time

Thank you!

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