The Philippines’ leading civil society coordination network on climate action

Aksyon Klima Pilipinas

National Adaptation Plan (NAP)

During the development of the Philippines’ NAP, AKP and its members were able to participate towards the end of the process, attending two multistakeholder consultations held on August and September 2023.

Through the network’s strategic lobbying in the following weeks, it successfully pitched for the following calls to be reflected into the final NAP submitted to the UNFCCC on 30 May 2024:

  • The interventions to emphasize food self-sufficiency and organic agricultural practices among the priority adaptation outcomes for “Agriculture and Fisheries and Food Security” resulted in their inclusion in the newest draft.
  • We successfully lobbied for the social component of “Ecosystems & Biodiversity” adaptation outcomes to become a third separate outcome to complement the economic and environment-focused outcomes that were already in the initial draft; this is now listed as “Enabled and empowered communities to lead ecological management”.
  • While our push for a separate outcome focused on indigenous peoples under “Cultural Heritage, Population Displacement and Migration” was not fully considered, the current draft still included our specific call to emphasize “[taking] into consideration unique circumstances of indigenous peoples and their ties to ancestral land”.
  • Under “Adaptation financing”, we also successfully pushed as a key success factor the need to design priority adaptation programs and projects that also yields co-benefits for mitigation, SDGs, and COVID-19 recovery.
  • The option “desalination facilities”, previously listed as a priority adaptation option under “Water Resources”, was removed from the NAP draft.
  • The reality that many vulnerable groups and communities are either not sufficiently capacitated or unaware of available spaces and platforms for participation is recognized, not just that the voluntary and non-incentivized nature of involvement may result in limited quality of participation of vulnerable groups and communities.
  • The Philippines will build on the gains of the NCCAP and integrate climate change in basic and higher education curricula, including loss and damage.