andreeanowak/adaptation-tracking-africa

This repository contains code used to analyze data from NDC and NAPs, which form the basis of the publication "Opportunities to strengthen Africa’s efforts to track national-level climate adaptation" (Nowak et al, Nature Climate Change, Opportunities to strengthen…). For more information on the assessment, see also: 1. Review protocol:Nowak, A. C., Njuguna, L. & Crumpler, K. How can governments engage in adaptation tracking? A protocol for assessing national adaptation policies. Preprint at How can governments engage… (2023). 2. Full data: Nowak, A., Njuguna, L. & Crumpler, K. Adaptation elements in African Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). Harvard Dataverse doi.org (2023). The scripts in this repository refer to: 1. "AdaptationElements_Processing": processing data published on Harvard Dataverse and used in the analysis 2. "Coverage": Assessment of NDCs and NAPs by the coverage criterion 3. "Consistency" : Assessment of NDCs and NAPs by the consistency criterion 4. "Robustness" : Assessment of NDCs and NAPs by the robustness criterion 5. "Adequacy": Assessment of NDCs and NAPs by their adequacy (creation of index based on weighted scores for coverge, consistency, robustness) 6. "Statistical analyses" performed to assess differences in adequacy and criteria scores across NDCs and NAPs 7. "Models": linear regressions to determine factors influencing adequacy scores.