interestingly this was reported to still be the case in instances where national climate change policy papers exist ie namas or napas suggesting that centralised consideration of climate change priorities are more important than standalone climate change plans although the latter can be a first step in formulating national priorities some countries such as kenya and indonesia have already stalled to integrate strategic priorities on climate change into their mediumterm national development plans it was further explained that taking a bottomup approach towards the formulation of national climate change strategies allows for sector specific planning and financing needs to be taken into account there is a range of examples on how this is being done on a countrybycountry basis the experience of respondents from recipient countries reflected that the national context in which climate change priorities are considered can vary greatly across countries