National Adaptation Plan Framework for Botswana 2020.

The purpose of the National Adaptation Plan Framework for Botswana 2020 (NAP Framework) is to give direction and guidance to the development, implementation, and monitoring of the country’s NAP process. The NAP Framework aims to achieve this ambitious task by highlighting fundamental and critical aspects that should guide the development and implementation of the NAP process. These include guiding principles, coordination and institutional arrangements, resource mobilization, and financing. The NAP Framework provides guidance regarding how the NAP process should be conducted. The specific objectives of this NAP Framework are to: 1) Describe the principal factors that should be prioritized in the development of the NAP process for the country. These priority areas are highlighted under the guiding principles. 2) Ensure that the NAP process is aligned with the existing legal and policy framework. Effectively, this will create a conducive environment for the seamless interaction and mainstreaming of the NAP process in the national and subnational planning processes. 3) Promote effective and efficient development and implementation of the NAP process in the country by proposing workable and efficient institutional arrangements based on existing structures. 4) Facilitate mainstreaming and the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant legal frameworks, programs, and planning processes and strategies within all relevant sectors and at different levels, as appropriate. 5) Ensure that the NAP process is centrally coordinated to promote its prioritization into planning and budgetary processes.