National Adaptation Programmes of Action on Climate Change (NAPA), 2006.

The National Adaptation Programmes of Action on Climate Changes (NAPA) only seeks to find adaptation needs of climate change and not to solve the global problems of development of the country, that are the government's responsibility, through its own policies. With the Programme of Priority Actions (PPA) 2006-2008, presented in Brussels, during the Round Table of December of 2005, Objectives and the Strategy of Development were established, as well as the Plan of Action that the Government should implement. The Strategy that is centered on the Good Governance and Poverty Reduction to assure the economic accelerated growth during next three years pronounces around four priority axes, namely: 1. Reforms of public institutions, reinforcement of their capacities and promotion of a policy of good government; 2. Accelerated growth and redistribution; 3. Creation of opportunities and diversification of incomes for the poor; 4. Development of the human resources and improvement of access to basic social services. To those four axes were associated a last one that it corresponds to the monitoring and evaluation of the actions to develop. The Strategy of Poverty Reduction doesn't sympathize with punctual initiatives, for that if it turns necessary the viability of a mechanism to monitor of actions and systematic evaluation and consequent adaptation and actualization (pag. 15).
Therefore, in spite of the width, and multi-sectoral character of poverty phenomena, accentuated by the small size of the country and the economic difficulties, the need of establishment of a separate unit was recognized. The unit should be technically autonomous and capable of monitoring and evaluating the strategy, and coordinating the execution of the strategy at the level of the several implicated sectors and assembling a system of permanent and periodic evaluation of the poverty situation in S. Tomé and Príncipe. What is compared perfectly that should also be create for the NAPA. Considering the main determinants of the poverty and based on national studies of long term perspectives, the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction (ENRP) seeks a significant reduction of poverty by 2015, through the good use of human potential and the material resources of the country, as well as through bilateral and multilateral cooperation. The strategy includes its own fundamental axes and the following global, medium and long term objectives: reduce by half the percentage of the Santomense population that lives in poverty (53,8%) by 2010 and less than 1/3 by 2015; By 2015 increase the access of whole population to the basic social services and to promote the improvement of quality of life of the population; reduce the social differences and genre among the various districts and between these and the Autonomous Region of Príncipe (pag. 15).
The main NAPA objectives are: 1. develop and to implement projects based on activities destined to face the variety of effects of climate change; 2. protect the life and the people's well-being, as well as the infrastructure and environment; 3. incorporate objectives and adaptation measures in the national polices and various sectors, as well as in the development objectives; and 4. increase the knowledge on the impact of climate change and activities of adaptation in the communities, in the civil society and close to the Government (pag. 16).