In the submission, the GEF highlights that as an operating entity of the financial mechanism and as the entity entrusted with the

management of the LDCF, it holds the mandate, the modalities and the experience required to enable activities in support of the NAP process in LDCs. It notes that through the LDCF, to date the GEF has financed the preparation of national adaptation programmes of action (NAPAs) in 48 LDCs and approved financing for 55 NAPA implementation projects and programmes. It concludes that the GEF and its Agencies are “well placed to ensure that NAPs build on and are fully coordinated with the NAPA experience as well as ongoing and future efforts towards NAPA implementation.”

The submission will be considered by the 36th session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), to take place in Bonn, Germany, from 14–25 May 2012. [Publication: Submission from the GEF]