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Delegates at CBA8 in Nepal travel to Kirtipur Village, Nawalparasi District to see the effects of climate change as part of the pre-conference fields trips (Photo: Kate Wilson/IIED)
Crowd-sourcing ideas to help community-based adaptation finance reach the most vulnerable
… weather events. During this week's 8th international conference on community-based adaptation (CBA8) in Kathmandu we've heard examples from Kenya, Niger, … surface. As my colleague Shikha Shrestha, from the CARE and WWF-led Hariyo Ban initiative in Nepal asked the session's panel: "Are we …
Insight, 01 May 2014
COP24 will take place in Katowice's landmark congress centre and exhibition hall (Photo: Umkatowice, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)
IIED and partner events at COP24
… Pocket guide to the Paris Agreement   Contributions of the research community to climate action and implementation of the Paris Agreement … 6 December Venue:  Bieszczady, Zone G Partner organisations: Led by African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) Speakers: Dr Joanes … What is the role of trade in delivering climate mitigation and adaptation in land-using sectors? How can biomass value chains be made …
Event, 02 December 2018
Shahajat Ali shows a newspaper article describing the incentive-based hilsa conservation programme under the Department of Fisheries (Photo: BCAS)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Bangladesh
… Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) involves people using biodiversity and ecosystem … main staple foods. Implemented between 2013 and 2016, the IIED-led Hilsa conservation project worked with fishery communities and … management of fishery resources. For example, the project improved community resilience and adaptive capacity by introducing sustainable …
Project, 12 June 2018
Fisheries account for 12 per cent of The Gambia's GDP. The country's Atlantic coastline and the mangroves along the River Gambia estuary are vulnerable to climate change (Photo: Javier D. Creative Commons via Flickr)
GCF funding boosts ecosystem-based adaptation in The Gambia
… events. Since 2013, the government has been taking an ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) approach, promoting small-scale projects that maintain … grounds to help boost fish stocks. They have also supplied five community gardens with solar-powered boreholes to support crop … international climate finance The success of these initiatives has led to new opportunities to access international climate finance. The …
Insight, 22 June 2017
A woman hands protective equipment to another woman.
Engaging pastoralist communities through citizen movements to amplify their voice
… how to strengthen citizen engagement mechanisms and locally-led climate action and improve inclusive national-level climate decision … Samburu, and IMPACT :  works on capacity-building and strengthening community grassroots organisations. Participation and deliberation In … patterns directly affect customary natural resource management and adaptation strategies. The alliance does not have any systematic …
Article, 11 December 2020
Seated people outside face someone standing and speaking at the front
The adaptation action and research sandbox: aligning two global processes
… The Adaptation Research Alliance (ARA) and the locally led adaptation (LLA) principles are gaining traction in the run up to this year's UN climate summit (COP26). These initiatives set out to strengthen … Climate change … The adaptation action and research sandbox: aligning two global processes …
Event, 01 July 2021
A person standing looking at steep hillsides with terraced fields.
Loss and damage in Rwanda: a young climate activist reports
… The changes in my country’s climate and the impacts on me, my family and our communities have … mid-May 2020. While the rain was predicted, its intensity was not. It led to flooding and the deaths of more than 130 people. The rain and … it also impacts soil fertility. Land degradation affects the whole community, diminishing incomes and wellbeing. Agriculture employs 62% of …
Insight, 03 September 2020
A woman scoops water in a dry riverbed near Kataboi village in the Turkana region of Northern Kenya (Photo: Marisol Grandon/DFID via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Kenya's new climate fund listens to community ideas for building resilience
… these communities be dependent on aid? New hope A project that gives community members a voice and aims to build their resilience to the … is driven by local community decisions on how financing from a County Adaptation Fund should be best spent. Community members draw on funding … resources. In one important intervention, the adaptation fund led to the closure of a water pan that had been built in the wrong place …
Insight, 03 April 2014
Woman talks and points at a poster behind her while people stand in front of her
CBA17 returns in person: scheduled for Bangkok in May
… to discuss how to put the principles for principles for locally led adaptation (LLA) into practice, recognising the complexities, … went entirely online, bringing together large numbers of the CBA community online for CBA14, CBA15 and CBA16. But while the digital … Climate change …
News, 01 February 2023
Community-based adaptation and microfinance: a win-win partnership?
… Climate change adaptation may cost US$75–100 billion per year between 2010 and 2050. … part of the solution is to go micro: linking microfinance with community-based adaptation. I argue that: • Microfinance can provide and … to new opportunities. Community-based adaptation is a community-led process based on communities’ own priorities, needs, knowledge and …
Insight, 21 March 2011