The CMA invited Parties and observer organizations to submit via the UNFCCC submission portal by February 2021 their views and information on the development and application of methodologies for assessing adaptation needs, including needs related to action, finance, capacity-building and technological support.

More background on this mandate is available at the end of this page.

Guiding questions for the call for submissions

Please note that not all questions have to be answered.

1. Existing methodologies: What concrete methodologies, guidelines and tools does your country/organization use to assess adaptation needs? For each, please specify, as applicable:

         a)  Is it open source or proprietary?

         b)  How and where can it be accessed?

              >  Is it contained in the inventory on the Adaptation Knowledge Portal?

              >  Do you have a mechanism in place to coordinate access to it?

         c)  What is needed to apply it (e.g. IT equipment, data, human resources, financial resources, time investment)?

         d)  What is it used for (e.g. stage in the adaptation policy cycle, geographical scale, sector)?

         e)  What are the strengths and weaknesses?

2. Selection/application:

         a)  How does your country/organization select and apply the most suitable methodology for assessing its adaptation needs?

         b)  Did you carry out an assessment to identify the best-suited methodology for your given context?

         c)  Which of the AC guiding principles¹ and possibly others for the application of methodologies do you consider useful?

3. Gaps, good practices and lessons learned:

         a)  In your country’s/organizations’ experience, what gaps, good practices and lessons learned exist in terms of developing methodologies for assessing adaptation needs?

         b)  In your country’s/organizations’ experience, what gaps, good practices and lessons learned exist in terms of applying methodologies for assessing adaptation needs?

4. Case studies: Please provide one or two case studies that could be useful to other countries and that could be replicated. Case studies on assessing transboundary aspects are also welcome.

¹ See document AC/2017/12 (page 5, Section 3, paragraph 9a-h).
 

Kindly submit your inputs no later than 30 April 2021

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More background on this mandate

The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA), in its decision 11/CMA.1, requested the Adaptation Committee (AC) to prepare a technical paper on methodologies for assessing adaptation needs with a view to assisting developing countries without placing an undue burden on them. This work is to be conducted in the following three clearly defined steps:

      1. The AC was requested to develop an inventory of relevant methodologies for assessing adaptation needs by June 2020. This inventory has been developed in collaboration with the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG), partner organizations of the Nairobi work programme and others. It includes methodologies for assessing adaptation needs related to action, finance, capacity-building and technological support in the context of national adaptation planning and implementation. Click here to see the pilot inventory.

      2. The CMA invited Parties and observer organizations to submit via the UNFCCC submission portal by February 2021 their views and information on the development and application of methodologies for assessing adaptation needs, including needs related to action, finance, capacity-building and technological support.

      3. The CMA requested the AC, with the engagement of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II, as appropriate, to prepare a technical paper on methodologies for assessing adaptation needs.