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Welcoming the progress made by the Adaptation Committee and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group in the fulfilment of their respective mandates relating to providing information on accessing funding from the Green Climate Fund for the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans,
Noting the progress made by many developing country Parties in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans,1
Also noting that developing country Parties continue to face challenges in accessing funding from the Green Climate Fund for the formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans,
Further noting the emerging needs for technical guidance and support for the implementation of national adaptation plans,
1.Welcomes the submission by Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Sri Lanka and the Sudan of their national adaptation plans via NAP Central;2
2.Encourages other Parties to forward relevant outputs and outcomes related to the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans to NAP Central;3
3.Welcomes the successful conduct of the NAP Expo that took place from 11 to 15 July 2016 in Bonn, Germany, and the active participation therein of developing countries and other relevant stakeholders;
4.Notes with appreciation the decision of the Board of the Green Climate Fund at its 13th meeting that approved up to USD 3 million per country through the Green Climate Fund Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme to support the formulation of national adaptation plans and/or other national adaptation planning processes;4
5.Appreciates the progress made by the Green Climate Fund in expediting support for the formulation of national adaptation plans and looks forward to how the Green Climate Fund will support the subsequent implementation of policies, projects and programmes of developing country Parties as requested in decision 1/CP.21, paragraph 46;
6.Invites developing country Parties to access the funding referred to in paragraph 4 above in order to advance the formulation of their national adaptation plans;
7.Requests the Adaptation Committee and the Least Developed Countries Expert Group to continue their respective engagement with the Green Climate Fund and to continue to include information on that engagement, including on ways to enhance the process to access support for the formulation and implementation of national adaptation plans, in their reports for consideration by the Subsidiary Body for Implementation at its forty-seventh session (November 2017) with a view to making recommendations to the Conference of the Parties at its twenty-third session (November 2017), as appropriate;
8.Welcomes the support provided by the Global Environment Facility for the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans;
9.Notes with concern that 12 funding proposals seeking to support elements of countries’ work in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans were technically cleared by the Global Environment Facility but, as at 10 November 2016, were awaiting funding under the Least Developed Countries Fund;
10.Encourages developed country Parties to contribute to the Least Developed Countries Fund and the Special Climate Change Fund and invites additional voluntary financial contributions to the Least Developed Countries Fund, the Special Climate Change Fund and other funds under the Financial Mechanism, as appropriate, recognizing the importance of the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans;
11.Notes with appreciation that most countries that have embarked on the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans are supported either by bilateral and multilateral agencies or by domestic resources;
12.Invites Parties to continue to provide information on progress made towards the achievement of the objectives of the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans and on experience, best practices, lessons learned, gaps and needs, and support provided and received in the process to formulate and implement national adaptation plans via the online questionnaire5 on NAP Central;