Given that many other LDCs have already completed their NAPA, Nepal is in the advantageous position of being able to learn from the experiences of others. These have demonstrated the need to consider how the NAPA process can be used strategically to create a sustainable framework for national climate change action, which can result in swift and well-coordinated follow-up to the NAPA priorities identified. At the same time, the Government of Nepal has initiated a number of concurrent activities on climate change. The Government of Nepal is therefore using the NAPA to provide a basis for the development of a multi-stakeholder Framework on Climate Change Action, ensuring that the NAPA-related stakeholder processes are institutionalised and backed up by dedicated knowledge management and learning platform. In this way, the NAPA will form the basis of, and support for, a wider strategy for climate resilient, low carbon development, with which other climate change processes in Nepal can be aligned.
The NAPA Project promotes a wider process, which combines the NAPA with broader support and knowledge infrastructure to ensure its sustainability and related climate change activities. This wider programme of work is supported with co-financing from DFID and DANIDA.
The NAPA has three components:
Component 1: Preparation and dissemination of a NAPA document
Component 2: Development and maintenance of a Climate Change Knowledge Management and Learning Platform for Nepal; and
Component 3: Development of a multi-stakeholder Framework of Action for Climate Change in Nepal.
The NAPA process will identify well defined short-term and long-term priorities for climate change action in Nepal. It will create and enhance awareness of climate change adaptation issues at different scales and build long-term capacity through cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder coordination. The Project will also form the basis of a critical pathway for climate change action in Nepal, opening avenues for mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning.
The NAPA Project has the provisions for the formation of: (i) Advisory Board (AB); (ii) Project Executive Board (PEB); (iii) Technical Advisory Committee (TAC); and (iv) Project Team. In order to provide guidance and ensure coordination, an Advisory Board shall be constituted by ensuring representation from the concerned government organisations, donor community, academia, civil society/NGO, private sector, local bodies and IPCC focal point under the chairmanship of the Secretary of MoEST. The Project Executive Board is composed of Project Executive, Senior Beneficiaries (representative of the NPCS, and the civil society) and Senior Suppliers (representatives of the DANIDA, DfID and UNDP).
The envisioned TAC will function as a consortium of experts in the areas of climate change, disaster risk management, environmental conservation and socio-economic impact evaluation and will provide technical advice to the PEB and the AB as and when necessary.
The Project team shall consist of Project Executive, Project Manager, consultants, Programme Officer, and Technical Officer. The Project team will be supported by admin/finance associate. The Project will be implemented through multi-stakeholder consultations, field investigations, meetings, workshops, and seminars. The Project will consult widely with key stakeholders particularly the national, regional and grassroot level organization including civil society, private sectors, academic institutions, vulnerable groups and communities. The NAPA Project will engage key players from the concerned ministries from the very beginning, to ensure that a greater understanding of the relationship between national planning processes and NAPAs can be achieved.
The NAPA component 1 will be implemented by following the procedures specified in the NAPA preparation guidelines, adopted by the COP at its seventh session. The document will be prepared with a rigorous country-driven consultative approach with a number of consultations, field investigations and workshops. Beside the formulation of NAPA document, institutional arrangements and strategies to ensure cross-sectoral and multi-stakeholder coordination, knowledge sharing and learning about climate change will be prepared to create a learning platform, in line with NAPA components 2 and 3.
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The total fund for NAPA project is US$ 1.325 million. It is funded from the GEF operated LDC Fund (US$ 200,000) and UNDP (US$ 50,000) to implement, in particular its Component 1 (NAPA preparation). Implementation of Components 2 and 3 is funded by DfID (US$ 875,000) and the Embassy of Denmark, Kathmandu (US$ 200,000).
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