Cape Verde National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA) Official Document - December 2007

One of the primary objectives of Cape Verde's NAPA is the identification and outlining of urgent and immediate actions for expanding and broadening the range of climate change coping strategies applied to small communities in order to improve their capacity of adaptation to the current climatic variability, extreme events, and, consequently to future changes.

In this context, the adaptation programme must be oriented towards increasing the resilience of the country to climatic change and variability, in order for them to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Cape Verdeans identified adaptation strategic actions that include integrated management of water resources, production of food, ecosystems and tourism, development of the agro-silvo-pastoral production systems and protection and prevention of degradation of coastal zones.