National Adaptation Plan 2021-2050.

The Nepal National Adaptation Plan aimed for the period from the year 2021 until the year 2050 (or NAP) aims to help the country achieve the objectives of the NAP process that have been agreed under the UNFCCC. These objectives are: To reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience; To facilitate the integration of climate change adaptation, in a coherent manner, into relevant new and existing policies, programmes and activities, in particular development planning processes and strategies, within all relevant sectors and at different levels as appropriate. This NAP has been formulated to help the country adapt to the effects of climate change over the short-term (until 2025), medium-term (until 2030), and long-termp (until 2050); and will: • Inform the planning, coordination and implementation of adaptation actions needed at all levels of government and across society and ecosystems; • Provide guidance on integrating adaptation considerations into policies, programmes, and activities.
The Vision here stated is cited as follows: To contribute to the socio-economic prosperity of the nation by building a climate-resilient society and reducing the risk of climate change impacts on people and ecosystems through the integration of adaptation across sectors and levels of government. This text also highlight specific Goals as follows: The over-arching goals are informed by the National Climate Change Policy (2019), and the Nepal NAP aims to: • Build the adaptive capacity and resilience of key natural. social, and economic sectors vulnerable to and at risk of climate change, and service providers; • Integrate climate change issues into policies, strategies, plans, and programmes of all sectors and at local, provincial, and federal levels emphasizing Gender Equality, Social Inclusion, Livelihoods and Governance; • Ensure equitable resource mobilization and distribution of resources for climate change adaptation through national and international financing, research, technology, and extension services related to climate change adaptation.
The Nepal NAP is guided by the following principles that will help the country achieve adaptation action that simultaneously advances economic and sustainable development objectives: • Responsiveness to the actual adaptation needs through the identification of actions that reduce the adverse impacts of climate change and maximize resilience, informed by a robust body of research and analysis undertaken through the NAP process; • Policy coherence with: -National policies, strategies. plans, development goals, and priorities; and -International commitments under the UN conventions including the UNFCCC, Paris Agreement. SDGs, Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNCCD, and UNCBD; • Integration of climate change adaptation in the planning, budgeting, and implementation of actions at the three levels of government - federal, provincial. and local; • Gender responsive and social inclusive actions to ensure that people of all genders are engaged in all stages of climate adaptation planning, budgeting, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation; • Multistakeholder engagement, coordination, and cooperation to promote transparency, better decision making, and enhanced implementation of adaptation; • Ecosystem integrity to maintain naturally biodiverse, healthy, and resilient ecosystem; • 'Leave-No-One-Behind'through commitment to an inclusive NAP process that prioritizes planning and implementation of adaptation actions by identifying who is left behind, identifying measures to meet their needs, and generating evidence and data to monitor progress.
The NAP sets out priority programmes in the eight thematic and four cross-cutting sectors as outlined in the National Climate Change Policy (2019 ). The programmes include adaptation actions that are best able to address climate vulnerabilities and risks in the short (to 2025), medium (to 2035), and long-term (to 2050): as well as adaptation actions that contribute to the achievement of national economic and development priorities. This section sets out the 64 strategic priority adaptation programmes/interventions, their estimated cost, duration, their alignment with the national policy documents, and the climate vulnerabilities and risk addressed by these measures. The programmes were identified through rigorous consultation, adopting a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder approach engaging the three levels of government. The adaptation programmes were developed through desk research, provincial level consultations, expert review, write-shops, and round-table discussions with thematic experts. The full Nepal NAP documents the methodology to identify and prioritize adaptation actions, projects and programmes; and includes additional information about the proposed programmes, accommodating a summary of the adaptation programmes, expected outcomes and impacts, implementing institutions, geographic coverage, and target beneficiaries.
Also this text indicates the need for building on the outcomes of the short-term adaptation actions, by 2030, in terms of resilient agro-ecosystem developed for sustainable production, food sufficiency and nutrition; ecosystem health and functionality maintained, critical habitats and protected areas networks restored; and nature-based solutions, and green and circular economy.