206a363b-83a5-49bd-9bf4-590751f78c88 8ae26013-56bc-4b78-a4f7-a53e0472cfce Irit Eguavoen eguavoen@uni-bonn.de 2016-01-06T13:16:24 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Liberia National Adaptation Programme of Action 2008-01-01 NAPAs provide a process for the LDCs to identify priority activities that respond to their urgent and immediate needs with regard to adaptation to climate change - those needs for which further delay could increase vulnerability or lead to increased costs at a later stage. The rationale for NAPAs rests on the limited ability of the LDCs to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. In the NAPA process, prominence is given to community-level input as an important source of information, recognizing that grassroots communities are the main stakeholders. NAPAs use existing information and no new research is needed. They are action-oriented, country-driven, are flexible and based on national circumstances. In order to effectively address urgent and immediate adaptation needs, NAPA documents are presented in a simple format, easily understood both by policy-level decision-makers and the public. Adaptation to increasing climate variability and climate change is a very important topic in Liberia. While some national coping strategies have already been developed to deal with extreme climatic phenomena, they are only a beginning. As such, the NAPA process has afforded Liberia the opportunity to reflect systematically and in concert with a comprehensive set of stakeholders, the type of measures that could increase the capacity of vulnerable communities to cope with the urgent and immediate needs associated with increasing climatic volatility and future climate change. Irit Eguavoen Center for Development Research, Department for Political and Cultural Change, University of Bonn Senior Researcher +49-228-73-4912 Walter-Flex-Straße 3 Bonn 53113 Germany eguavoen@uni-bonn.de Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy Monrovia Liberia http://www.molme.gov.lr/ Homepage of Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=206a363b-83a5-49bd-9bf4-590751f78c88&fname=type_scientific_publication.png large_thumbnail png social science GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet governance NAPA climate change adaptation Liberia Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions No restrictions society -12.656237781150821 -6.855456531957949 2.547981768612196 9.102090705844548 PDF http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/napa/lbr01.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Liberia National Adaptation Programme of Action Source for download