Cape Verde: National adaptation plan to climate change 2022-2030

This Plan aims at increasing climate resilience in national and sectoral public, private and civil planning and budgeting processes. Based on an exhaustive consultation process, the NAP CV is guided by the principle of equality and participation, aiming to increase the resilience of Cape Verde, its people, its ecosystems and assets, with emphasis on the most vulnerable segments of society with gender perspective, the environment and the economy.

The Plan highlights some recommendations with a view to ensuring greater participation of the most vulnerable groups to climate change in the adaptation process, such as: Develop tools to support the mainstreaming of gender and issues related to vulnerable groups (gender assessment guides, participatory approach, use of gender markers, etc.); Ensure the inclusion of socio-economic analysis sensitive to gender and vulnerable groups in crisis adaptation plans, at the macro, meso and micro levels; Assess social and gender impacts in post-disaster responses to all related and involved actors and sectors; Ensure a follow-up sensitive to social and gender issues of populations in areas most exposed to risks and assessment of the impact of disasters; Deepen the approach to gender and vulnerable groups in initiatives to combat rural poverty and food insecurity, etc.