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This report aims to support the process of refinement of heat action plans (HAPs) by conducting a critical review of heat action plans in India. They analysed 37 heat action plans at the city (9), district (13) and state (15) levels across 18 states. They also document an encouragingly wide range of solutions (covering 62 distinct intervention types) prescribed across these HAPs, from promoting green roofs to state-wide school awareness programs. 

Here, are some of the cross-cutting recommendations from the study aimed at firming up systems and capacities for HAP creation and delivery across the country.

1. Create a centralised national repository of HAPs and their updates (at the NDMA). 
2. Set up an expert committee to assess notifying heatwaves as disasters. 
3. Develop and institutionalise systems to monitor and evaluate effectiveness of HAP solutions, and to prepare for heat earlier. 
4. Clarify funding mechanisms. Create a central fund or harness the National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC), especially for long-run structural investments.
5. Clarify legal foundations of all HAPs by linking individual actions to existing (or new) sectoral laws, especially where coordination/implementation problems are known to exist.