The Parties will meet every five years with the first meeting in 2018, to take stock of the collective efforts and to assess progress on the NDCs and towards achieving the goal of the PA (Obergassel et al., In SSA, the structure of mitigation targets varies a lot, however, the most common type is either relative emissions reduction targets (28 countries) or use of a conditional mitigation scenario (16 countries) with the majority using the business as usual baseline (31 countries) and the target year of 2030 (IGES, 2016). In addition, all of the SSA countries mention adaptation measures in their INDC/NDC, and 41 of these have quantified their financial needs, especially finance for mitigation actions.