Timor-Leste's National Adaptation Plan (NAP).

This is the Timor-Leste‘s first National Adaptation Plan (NAP); and is being submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). NAP is a continuous, progressive, and iterative process that follows a country-driven, gender-sensitive, participatory, and fully transparent approach that builds on past and on-going efforts. The overall vision of the NAP is to build a climate resilient development trajectory for the country and its people. It is aligned with other policies and strategies relevant to Timor-Leste‘s adaptation response to climate change. The NAP also establishes clear linkages with the Strategic Development Plan 2011-2030.
The NAP process has two main objectives: 1. reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, by building adaptive capacity and resilience; and 2. 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. The NAP builds on these objectives and is designed to fulfill the following functions: 1. serve as the national policy instrument for coordinating and driving actions of all actors and stakeholders in pursuit of adaptation goals and outcomes; 2. guide future assessment of progress and reporting on adaptation; 3. communicate the importance of addressing climate change, to all stakeholders, through adaptation by showing key impacts; 4. serve as the main national programme and coordinating mechanism of adaptation in the country; 5. serve as the umbrella plan of action for adaptation, embracing all other relevant national plans; 6. contain essential programmes and projects that have been identified based on available assessments; 7. serve as the umbrella plan of action for adaptation at various subnational levels, including a focus on vulnerable groups (women and youth), and links to traditional/indigenous systems through the Tarabandu; 8. serve as the Adaptation Communication to the Paris Agreement.