Status of assistance to Lesotho for their NAP process:

• The Government of Lesotho plans to kick-off the NAP process in mid 2015. The NAP GSP has shared options for a national stakeholder dialogue for further discussion with the government in June 2015.
• The Government of Lesotho has nominated Ms. Mahahabisa as focal point.
• NAP-GSP team met UNFCCC focal point and the Lesotho delegation during COP19 to follow-up on needs.
• The main requirement for NAP support expressed by the Government of Lesotho is to develop the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into existing national development planning process. NAP-GSP can support coordination to develop plans which are mainstreamed into line ministries and sectoral plans, through in-country capacity building and training.
• Some capacity-building and training has already come from Africa Adaptation Programme (AAP) in Lesotho. NAP-GSP will build on this support through additional training provision and wider multi-sector capacity building in-country.
• The Central Planning Ministry (CPM) has developed medium term and long term planning processes to 2017. The Government of Lesotho expressed the need to have a mainstreamed planning process which is consistent and formal - a clear structure for all sectors - led from the CPM and mainstreamed into all the sectors of Government, embedded into existing planning processses.
• The Government of Lesotho CPM has developed a 5 year plan - 2012/3 to 2016/7 – ‘National Strategic Development Plan’ - which incorporates climate change mainstreaming into the plan into all sectors. Adaptation projects proposals are also included. NAP-GSP can provide support to develop these proposals into projects.
• Next step for NAP-GSP is a TOR for Lesotho - channeled and anchored through the UNDP country office, in close consultation with the Government of Lesotho. NAP-GSP will scope the outcomes AAP and other adaptation projects in Lesotho and build on this support.
• UNDP is developing other projects in Lesotho which are linked to mainstreaming of climate change - so NAP-GSP will link with, and add value, to these.
• The Government of Lesotho expressed the need to also consider sub-national support, in terms of mainstreaming climate change adaptation into provincial plans and planning divisions - since the Government of Lesotho is in a process of decentralization.
• A Lesotho Government delegation attended the NAP-GSP Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in April 2014.

Lesotho's climate change adaptation experiences - overview:
Presented by the Lesotho delegation at the NAP-GSP Africa Regional Training Workshop (Anglophone) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in April 2014

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