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National Adaptation Strategies and Action Plans provide a general and mostly non-binding policy framework for guiding adaptation activities of governmental authorities and non-state actors. As for other policy domains, policy-making at national level has a key role in creating an enabling environment for planning and implementing concrete actions. It is at this level that medium- to long term adaptation objectives need to be formulated and gain political support as well as that coordination mechanisms are to be established to secure engagement of key actors. Overall, the development of a national adaptation policy (strategy and/or plan) serves as an instrument that provides the necessary frame for adaptation through coordinating the consideration of climate change across relevant sectors, geographical scales and levels of decision-making.