The challenge of adapting to climate change, particularly in the context of vulnerable and least developed countries (LDCs), is an issue that has been well recognized in the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change process and in subsequent deliberations on the issue. National adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) embody this by recognizing the urgent and immediate needs of LDCs to adapt to climate change by providing a special window for funding.
The Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) has developed this Step-by-Step Guide for Implementation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action to assist project developers in LDCs and other stakeholders to prepare financing proposals for NAPAs that will meet the standards of the LDCF and those of other financing windows.
Author: UNFCCC 2009
