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Principles for locally led adaptation
Article, 21 January 2021
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Overheating cities: lessons from informal settlements in Dar es Salaam
… people living in informal settlements, reduces the effectiveness of adaptation measures for vulnerable populations. This briefing draws on findings from community-led data collection in two informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, …
Publication, 20 August 2025
Rainforest on the banks of the River Pará.
Nature finance: some progress at COP30 with more needed in 2026
… on the role of the private sector in financing nature and locally-led action. Key takeaways included recognising the wide range of private … into their ways of working. Building on the principles for locally led adaptation , they mark a crucial step to recognise the role of …
Insight, 08 December 2025
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'This is now my path': evaluation and learning for the community-based adaptation conference
Publication, 20 January 2023
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Locally led adaptation – a time for action podcast
… This podcast mini-series explores locally led adaption to climate change – a topic gaining increasing prominence … summit (COP26) and in other major policy processes. At the Climate Adaptation Summit  in January 2021, 40 governments and leading … Commonwealth Development Office , and Suranjana Gupta , advisor on community resilience in the Huairou Commission .   …
Article, 13 May 2021
Group of people in a class room. Some are writing over a flipchart, others are watching and adding comments from the classroom seats.
Addressing the nutrition gap in climate action
… and nutrition specialists, and take a holistic approach to climate adaptation that incorporates diet and nutrition into climate responses. Developing community-led nutrition-sensitive adaptation plans IIED and World Vision have been …
Insight, 20 August 2025
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Urban Resilience Strategic Exchange: Climate Week NYC 2025
… for the first time on Wednesday 24 September. URSE is a member-led platform to strengthen collaboration between global funders and … convened by IIED and SouthSouthNorth, and was chaired by the CLimate Adaptation and REsilience (CLARE) programme of the UK Foreign, … by addressing governance and financial barriers that prevent community-driven resilience solutions from being implemented at scale. …
Event, 24 September 2025
Group of community members Kibaale, Uganda are sitting down and discussing during consultations with officials. Two women are sitting on blue chairs, listening and noting things down on notebooks.
Country platforms: are we asking the right questions?
… LIFE-AR aims to transform climate governance. It embeds locally led adaptation (LLA) principles , with delivery mechanisms that decentralise … empower local actors. At least 70% of climate finance is directed to community-prioritised investments. Platforms use a whole-of-government …
Insight, 29 October 2025
Man bending down to look at a mangrove in a forest area.
From CBA19 to the global climate negotiations: nature must take centre stage
… overarching question:  “how can we achieve just and equitable adaptation?” Sessions within the event’s nature and adaptation track explored: Financing for locally led, nature-based adaptation Integrating scientific and traditional … Afro-Brazilian knowledge and mangrove protection in a Quilombola Community on Pernambuco’s Atlantic Forest coast, and Green spaces for …
Insight, 12 August 2025
The Sistema Agroflorestal Dendê - or palm oil agroforestry system in Tomé-Açu managed by Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Tomé-Açu.
Trailblazing in Tomé Açu: inspiring a global agroforestry transition in northern Brazil
… from Tomé Açu), the TERRA initiative is Brazilian and was born and led by the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Farming (MDA). …
Insight, 03 August 2026