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Strengthening the adaptation knowledge base

• Member countries provided insightful examples which illustrate the progress they make in developing and implementing adaptation policies.
• The self-assessment survey, which was similar for all European countries, allows providing a Europe-wide overview of adaptation that takes into account the differences across countries, for example in terms of governance and administrative structures or  climate and socio-economic circumstances.
• The consultation of European countries and their feedback on the first draft of the report helped to clarify some of the issues left open by the survey. It also showed, for some countries, that progress in adaptation policy is developing rapidly. Therefore, adjustments to the original answers to the survey were made during the consultation process, highlighting the difficulty in providing an up-to-date overview of the state of implementation in European countries.
• The combination of closed (most of the self-assessment survey’s questions) and open questions allowed to collect information that is concise and still include the caveats and nuances that countries wished to make.