<p>With the adoption of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adaptation has become more visibly important for responding to the climate crisis. Countries are encouraged to put in place policy measures to implement their National Determined Contributions (NDC) including National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) to address the needs of adaptation across sectors and governance levels. Multi-level learning implies learning across international, national, and local levels of governance and is of particular importance to guide countries’ adaptation planning efforts and to enable them to benefit from the experience and lessons learned obtained at other levels around the world. The objective of this paper is to assess the contribution of multi-level learning to adaptation planning in Latin America by analyzing and comparing learning across levels in three illustrative cases in Latin America: integration of climate change adaptation in watershed planning in Bolivia, ecosystem-based adaptation in Ecuador, and adaptation planning in small-scale agriculture in Honduras. The three research questions formulated cover the learning needs of adaptation planning, the structure and dynamic of the social network that enables multi-level learning nodes, and the strategies adopted by the stakeholders to learn on adaptation planning. In the three cases, adaptation planning functions can be enhanced through changes in multi-level learning nodes and the governance levels involved and through adjustments in the cognitive, normative, and relational dimensions of multi-level learning and the direction of such learning.</p>