LLA Alliance: join the endorsers of the locally led adaptation principles
Over 150 governments, leading global institutions and local and international NGOs have already signed up to principles to help ensure local communities are empowered to lead sustainable and effective adaptation to climate change at the local level.
At COP30, the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources of Guatemala formally endorsed the LLA principles (Oliver Arnold-Richards, IIED)
The principles for locally led adaptation focus on the greater effort and commitment needed to put more resources into local hands for local adaptation priorities.
IIED is among more than 150 organisations, donors and governments to endorse the principles and call on the global community of practice on adaptation to help move programmes, funding and practices towards adaptation that is increasingly owned by local stakeholders.
Empowering local stakeholders to lead in adapting to climate change gives communities on the frontline of climate impacts a voice in decisions that directly affect their lives and livelihoods.
Endorse the principles
When organisations or institutions endorse the principles, they are encouraged to outline what they intend to do differently within their institutions or describeor good practices they will implement to better support or enable locally led adaptation action.
Organisations can endorse the principles to raise global ambition and action on locally led adaptation: complete this commitment form and email it to [email protected].
The growing list of endorsers
In January 2021, 40 governments and leading institutions led the way at the Climate Adaptation Summit by committing to support locally-led climate adaptation.
The following May a communique issued by the G7 said it “welcomes the principles for locally led adaptation".
In November 2021 at COP26, Danida, Sida, USAID and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs were among the latest donor agencies to endorse the principles.
At COP27, over 80 endorsers of the locally led adaptation principles shared their achievements since endorsing the principles and outlined their priorities for the coming year.
The number of endorsers has since climbed to around 156. They include (with links to their commitments):
Staying connected
IIED and partners currently convene the locally-led adaptation community of practice (LLA CoP), which brings together endorsers and supporters of the LLA principles to collaborate, share expertise and experience, learn collectively and strengthen the evidence base for locally led adaptation.
Once you endorse the LLA principles, you will automatically join the LLA CoP. Other organisations or individuals who are unable to endorse the LLA principles can still join the CoP by completing a form.
IIED and partners are committed to highlighting the different approaches to locally led adaptation around the world. Explore this interactive map of LLA experiences that provides examples of the eight principles of LLA in practice, and demonstrates that locally led adaptation works on the ground.
Associated resources
Project: Scaling up support for locally led adaptation
Project: Generating ambition for locally led adaptation
Project: Scoring adaptation finance for locally led adaptation: a way to make it accountable
Project: Unlocking public climate finance for sustainable business transformation in Africa
Project: Frontline Funds Accelerator: catalysing climate investment to the grassroots
