NAP-Expo 2024: How inclusive and cross-scale stakeholder engagement can drive transformational adaptation
Organizers: FAO, UNDP, UNCDF, NAP Global Network
Date: April 25, 2024
Time: 9:00am - 10:30am
Room: Green View
Where: Bangabandhu International Conference Center - Dhaka, Bangladesh
Event type: In-person
Context
Climate adaptation efforts involve a wide range of stakeholders, from community members (such as youth, women, and farmers) to policymakers, researchers, and businesses involved at very different levels. In National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), these stakeholders come together to address the impacts of climate change. Strengthening inclusive multi-stakeholder engagement ensures that adaptation strategies benefit from a diverse range of perspectives and expertise.
Collaborating with stakeholders helps address their specific needs and vulnerabilities, leading to sustainable changes and climate-resilient development. Involving stakeholders in planning, implementation, and decision-making boosts ownership, legitimacy, and effectiveness, especially regarding gender dynamics and women's inclusion. This emphasizes the importance of inclusivity in driving positive outcomes.
Therefore, the FAO-UNDP SCALA programme, along with the UNCDF and NAP Global Network, co-organized a technical session at NAP Expo 2024 to underscore the significance of bolstering inclusive multi-stakeholder engagement for climate change adaptation especially for the NAP formulation, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation.
Objectives
The session aimed to:
- Highlight the importance of inclusive multi-actor engagement for transformative adaptation across multiple governance levels.
- Showcase successful examples, best practices, and approaches of inclusive multi-actor collaboration in climate adaptation across scales.
Agenda
| Welcome and Introduction | 10min | Introduction of objectives and agenda |
| Element 1 Icebreaker | 10min | Interactive intro session: Looking at one’s own privilege |
| Element 2 Framing presentation | 10min | Introduction on why inclusive and cross-scale engagement is important to the NAP process |
| 5 min | Q&A | |
| Element 3 Examples from the countries | 15min | Joint Secretary, Sanjeev Kumar Karn, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (Nepal) Director, Gerty Pierre of Climate Change, Ministry of Environment (Haiti) Mr. Ismail Kone, National Climate Change Programme (Cote d'Ivoire) |
| Element 4 Practical session | 30 min | Role play from the perspective of different stakeholders (private sector, women’s groups, youth, government) |
| Closing remarks | 10min | Wrapping up and closing |
Learn more about NAP Expo 2024.