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This groundbreaking
work enables ourpartners in the region
to meaningfully
improve the lives andresiliency of urban
residents and tocontribute to global
priorities on climatechange.

United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP)ACROS Fukuoka Building, Level 8 1-1-1 Tenjin,
Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-0001, Japan
Telephone: (81-92) 724-7121 | Fax: (81-92) 724-7124
Email: habitat.fukuoka@un.org

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Addressing Urban and Human Settlement Issues in National Adaptation
Plans this Supplementary Guide targets
decision-makers at the national levelworking on National Adaptation Plans(NAPs) and helps stakeholders at thenational and sub-national levels involvedin the implementation of NAPs.
Climate Change and National Urban
Policies in Asia and the Pacific is a guidefor integrating climate change concerns
into urban-related policy, legislative,financial and institutional frameworks.
The Planning for Climate Change
Toolkit outlines practical tools to help
city planners and other professionals in
low- and middle-income countries better
understand, assess and take action onclimate change at the local level. The tool
has been used to support climate action
processes throughout Asia and thePacific Region.

ADDRESSING URBAN AND
HUMAN SETTLEMENT ISSUESIN

NATIONAL
ADAPTATION
PLANSa Supplement to the UNFCCC
Technical Guidelines on the
National Adaptation Plan Process

GUIDEMETHODINFORMATIONCHECKLISTWORKSHEETCLIMATE CHANGE AND
NATIONAL URBAN POLICIESIN ASIA AND THE PACIFICA REGIONAL GUIDE FOR INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE
CONCERNS INTO URBAN-RELATED POLICY, LEGISLATIVE,FINANCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORKS

CITIES &CLIMATE CHANGE
INITIATIVECITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVETOOL SERIESPLANNING FOR
CLIMATE CHANGEA STRATEGIC, VALUES-BASED APPROACH FOR URBAN PLANNERS

Toolkit

The Quick Guide for Policy Makers on
Pro-Poor Urban Climate Resilience inAsia and the Pacific illustrates pro-poor
approaches to urban climate resiliencethat are holistic, flexible and participatory, through examples which span theregion.
Supported byGender and Urban Climate Policy
indicates ways for local governments tointegrate gender dimensions into various
stages of policy-making, recognizing thediverse impacts of climate policies on
women and men, and the various
vulnerabilities and capacities to prepare
for and respond to climate change.
Climate Change, Vulnerability and Risk
– A Guide for Community Assessments
and Action Planning was developed
based on UN-Habitat’s climate change
and resilience building experiencethroughout the Asia and Pacific region.
The guide provides a practical step-by
step guide for planners and organizations working with communities.

Gender and Urban Climate Policy
Gender-Sensitive Policies Make a Difference

Published by

CLIMATE CHANGE,

VULNERABILITY

AND RISKA GUIDE FOR COMMUNITYASSESSMENTS AND ACTION
PLANNING

BUILDING RESILIENT AND
LOW CARBON CITIESIN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC© UN-Habitat/ Bernhard Barth

UN-Habitat’s Cities
and Climate Change
Initiative (CCCI) inAsia and the Pacifichelps governments
and local leaders
measure, report andverify their
Greenhouse Gas(GHG) emissions andadaptation actions,address local needs,
mobilise resources,and directly protect
people from climatechange.

We develop and test region specificplanning frameworks, resulting in a suiteof tools to support local, regional andnational leaders, city planners andpractitioners to enhance their climateaction.

SELECTED PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS‘Building climate resilience of urban systems
through Ecosystem-based Adaptation in theAsia-Pacific region (Urban EbA)' is afour-year US$6m regional project, fundedby the Least Developed Countries Fund(LDCF) of the Global Environment Facility(GEF) and implemented jointly with UN
Environment. UN-Habitat is developing
training materials and tools to build thecapacity of urban stakeholders in 5 cities in
BHUTAN, CAMBODIA, LAO PDR AND
MYANMAR to use ecosystems-basedadaptation aspart of ano v e r a l ladaptation

NATIONAL POLICY SUPPORT

CLIMATE FINANCE FOR URBAN BASIC SERVICES

UN-Habitat worked together with UN Environment,with support from the European Commission, on
the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance Programme.
Among other goals, the MCCA programme
supported the government of MYANMAR todevelop its first National Climate Change Strategyand Action Plan, National Climate Change Policy
and,critically,
itsNationally
Determined
Contribution of the Paris Agreement. Building on
the multisectoral climate change work, UN-Habitat
is taking a leading role insupporting the mainstreamingof climate action in the work
programmes and budgets ofMyanmar’s national sectoral
agencies and in piloting local
action to maketownships moreresilient.

In 2016, UN-Habitat accessed US$4.5m from the Adaptation Fund to provide
small-scale climate resilient infrastructure to 110,000 people in 189 villages. Basedon its innovative assessment methods, timely delivery and proof of results,
UN-Habitat worked closely with the government of LAO
PDR to access a further US$5.9m in multilateral climate
finance; US$5.5m from the Adaptation Fund to deliver
climate resilient infrastructure in other areas, andUS$400,000 from the GCF Readiness
Programme to study and built capacity on
climate resilience along the East West
Economic Corridor (EWEC).

MAINSTREAMING GENDER & CLIMATE RESILIENCEINDIA has committed to reduce its
emissions by 33-35% by 2030 from its 2005
level. The National Action Plan on Climate
Change (NAPCC) for India outlines initiatives
to promote sustainable development. With
UN- Habitat’s support, the Government ofIndia is developing a framework to enhance
the configuration of roles and responsibilities across international, national, andlocal government entities with an eye
towards achieving the NDC pledge. Theframework identifies opportunities formonitoring, reporting and verifying GHG
emissions as well as accessing climate
finance for low emissions development
strategies
in urbanareas.

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URBAN DESIGN FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE
Five cities across the PHILIPPINES archipelago arebeing supported in developing comprehensive
climate change action plans followed by fundable,
resilience-building urban design plans. These build
the foundation for the development of training
material for government agencies that support land
use and climate change planning. To strengthen
the national planning framework and to guidecities towards the development of projects that canattract climate finance, a supplemental policy guideto the Comprehensive Land Use Planning
framework wasdeveloped.

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Low-Carbon
Resilient Basic
Services &Buildings

BUILDING THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE OF
THE MOST VULNERABLE
People living in informal settlements areoften the ones facing the highest risks;
beyond socio-economic challenges, they
are more likely to live in hazard prone areas, and their informal nature leaves themoutside of the legal and regulatory systems. UN-Habitat supports the governmentof FIJI in addressing climate change resilience of the urban poor as well as informal
settlements upgrading in an integrated manner. Informal settlement communities
are at the forefront of identifying risks and planning concrete resilience actions,with vulnerable groups, such as women, youth, theelderly, and people with disabilities, directly engaged inthe process. By 2021, 16 informal settlements will
implement priority actions that directly
support the government’s National
AdaptationPlan,
includingbetterinfrastructure and resilient livelihoods.

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GHG Inventories,Vulnerability &Risk
Assessments&When floods destroyed significant parts of Honiara, SOLOMON ISLANDS, in2014, the climate change vulnerability assessment report that had just been
finalized with support of UN-Habitat proved very useful for the post-disasterrecovery and reconstruction. The floods also triggered a more comprehensiveplanning process, again supported by UN-Habitat. A climate change action plan
was finalized with strong engagement of
the most vulnerable communities, civilsociety, private sector, local and national
identified communities as well as wardlevel and city-wide actions to be prioritized,
which are currently being
implemented with support
from the Adaptation Fund.

Pro-Poor
Approaches to
Climate Action, incl.
Slum Upgrading &LivelihoodsN

We help leaders and professionals better
understand, assess and take action on
climate change at the local level, with ademand-driven approach guiding all ouractivities.

RE - PARFROM CITY-WIDE RESILIENCE PLANNING TO CLIMATE FINANCE

We partner with government ministries,
city authorities, local communities, NGOs,
academic institutions, media and theprivate sector to support policy, action
and capacity development.

TACAMBODIA is one of the world's most vulnerable countries to the effects ofclimate change. With the support of UN-Habitat and through partnerships with
Asian Development Bank, Save the Earth Cambodia and Forum Syd Sweden,
government ministries have increased their institutional and technical capacity tomainstream climate resilience into sub-national
development and investment plans andintegrate gender considerations in climatechange adaptation, particularly in theagriculture, water resource, and health sectors.
The resulting knowledge products
and advocacy tools have helped to
improve planning and decision
making.

Global priorities inform
UN-Habitat’s support topartners at the regional, country,
city and community levelin building resilient
and low carbon cities
in Asia and the Pacific.
UN-Habitat elevated climate
We help deliver on the Paris Agreement andaction to one of the highest
the Nationally Determined Contributions inpriorities in its 2020-2023
the context of the New Urban Agenda andthe Sustainable Development Goals.
Strategic Plan.

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And have reached:

431,651

direct beneficiaries throughinfrastructure and upgrading projects,& over

17.8 million

indirect beneficiaries throughcity-level policies, plans andassessments
To further accelerate urban transformation we….
… support cities and communities in preparing for the unavoidable impactsof climate change and support their ambitious goals to limit global
warming to 1.5oC through better planning, infrastructure, management
and action
communities… support national governments in developing impactful policies… build on partnerships such as the Global Covenant of Mayors forharmonized monitoring, reporting and verification of urban climateaction