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This report explores the potential for CRAs to be used as a tool for assessing adaptation effectiveness, expanding on the implications of designing or updating CRAs and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for NAP processes. While most have already conducted some form of Climate Risk Assessment (CRA), a detailed and up-to-date understanding of which regions, ecosystems, economic sectors, and populations are most vulnerable to climate impacts—and why—is still missing in many countries.

The report presents four considerations for countries interested in linking national CRAs with the evaluation of NAP processes.

1. Be explicit about how the national CRA will contribute to the MEL of your country’s NAP process. 
2. Ensure that CRAs and the NAP document—two important milestones in the planning phase of the NAP process—are informing and building on one another. 
3. Clarify how national adaptation priorities are expected to reduce climate risk and vulnerability in the short and long terms.
4. Consider the possibility of repeatedly using the same approach for some but not all components of a previous national CRA.