 Fy gael sicr angen, dros ei wneud yn arweinyddio. Felly, yno'n gyffredin Lundanydd Cymraenwerthiai Cyfraeniaid, sydd wedi'i gwiaith CBA 16 i amgylched i adael a gyfadaell cymryd cyffredinog. Rydym yn arweinyddio fod y CBA Cyfraeniaid. Cyfraeniaid yw'r adael yn y cyfrinig ar eich cynhyrch – bod oeddwn ni'n ffordd cyfrerwyr cyngor gurfennu cyffrediniaid, mae'n iddyn nhw'n ysgrifennu Cerddiad. It's something that is now in its 16th year, and this year's conference will be in October on the third and fourth, and there will be a little bit more on that later. Today we're going to be talking about the locally led adaptation principles and asking what does it look like to apply them in practice, what does success look like from the ground up, and what do we want to see for the locally led adaptation principles in the future. We have a really great line of speakers today from around the world, some of them recorded, some of them are live and in person with us today, and we're really looking forward to a fascinating session. Without further ado, I want to hand over now to Professor Selim Hook, who is the director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development based in Bangladesh, to introduce us to the principles for locally led adaptation. Over to you Selim, thank you. Thank you very much, Sam, and good morning, good afternoon, good evening to everybody. It's a pleasure to be here with you at this webinar of the London London Climate Action Week for the 16th annual conference of community based adaptation. So I'm just going to give you a little bit of a history of how we came to be where we are on this issue, as you can figure out from the number 16 we've been doing this for well over 16 years. I started it when I used to be at IID in London, and we have this annual conference on community based adaptation, which has evolved over time into a broader concept that we now call locally led adaptation. The difference between the two, it's not a big difference, but it is a nuanced difference is that community based adaptation started primarily in the civil society sector was NGOs, working with vulnerable communities in vulnerable countries who are beginning to be aware of the impacts of climate change and the need to understand those impacts and how to adapt those communities or help the communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. That we used to get together every year annually a physical event in a different country every year over the years we've been in Africa and Asia. But in the last couple of years because of the pandemic, we have become virtual. And this year as well on in October, we will continue to be virtual. But in the last couple of years, we have had a major development in the adaptation sector, called the global commission on adaptation. This was headed by Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the former Secretary General together with Kristalina Georgiva, then at the World Bank now at the IMF, and Mr Bill Gates of the Bill and Gates Foundation and a number of very, very big luminary commissioners and they worked for two years on adaptation and brought out a series of action tracks on adaptation. There were eight different action tracks. One of those action tracks was on locally led adaptation, and we were very much the product of that eighth action track on locally led adaptation. And we have built a community of practice. We developed the eight principles of adaptation, locally led adaptation. We got more and more organizations and funders and governments to sign up to those principles. And I'm not sure what the number is now, but I think we're reaching 100 organizations and governments and funding agencies who have signed up to those principles, the eight principles of locally led adaptation, and we're very, very pleased that that is happening. So we are now at the point of segueing from adopting principles to practicing those principles. And I'll say a little bit about why we need to do that and how we plan to do that. The why is very much in the, I apologize for having a sore throat. I hope I won't end up coughing, but the why is very much predicated on the recent six assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Working Group One report made it very clear that climate change impacts are now happening already attributable to human and these climate change. No longer something that's going to happen in the future that we need to prepare for. And we are not adequately prepared. Working Group Two, which came out a few months later at the end of February this year, reinforced that message saying that there are hundreds of examples of impacts of climate change happening and the inadequacy of our adaptation. Whether we be a poor country or a rich country, none of us are adequately adapted or prepared for the impacts, and they are now happening both in rich as well as poor countries, no longer something only poor countries needed to worry about. And therefore we need to emphasize and we need to invest a lot more in adaptation. And fortunately in the last conference of parties in COP26 in Glasgow, this was accepted as a principle, developed countries accepted that they had not provided sufficient funds for adaptation, they promised to double the amount of funding for adaptation. And we hope that they will be able to fulfill that promise. There are signs that they are moving in the right direction, but we need them to move much faster. However, there was a second order message as well on adaptation from the IPCC, where they had looked at impacts of climate change and adaptation interventions, and they found a surprisingly large number of adaptation interventions that didn't actually work effectively. And in fact, some of them were made things worse than they were before they were maladaptive. And so we need to be very careful about what we do with the funding for adaptation that is made available either from international sources or national sources. And we need to be much, much more careful in ensuring that they actually help the victims of the impacts of climate change. And while there are many reasons for the ineffectiveness of these interventions, one primary reason that has been identified by the IPCC authors is the lack of consultation with the local participants. Almost all the examples that they had were either international agencies flying into a country with a bunch of money and saying, this is what you have to do, or national governments deciding for local communities, this is what you have to do, and then making them do it, and then finding that it didn't really help very much. And the lack of consultation with local people was the number one missing element in the lack of success in adaptation interventions. And that's something we all need to learn from. We all need to accept the acceptance of the eight principles is to accept that failure. We accept failure. And now we say we are going to do things better. And so now we are moving into how do we make things better. And this CBA conference is a way to do that. We need to listen, listen more carefully to the voices of the people at the front lines, accept them and accept their experiential knowledge on the basis of which we can then build and support them, rather than tell them what we think they need to be doing. There's been too much top down expert led quote unquote expert led interventions that really have not proved to be very fruitful in the end. So we need a combination of top down and bottom up, and the CBA conference is very much the voice of the bottom up. How do we ensure the voices of the most affected communities to inform decision making at local level, at national level, and at global level. And the way we have structured this over the next few years, the coming years of this decade is we will be doing three events a year. The first event, the first part of the year is a annual conference that my center organisers called Gwabeswna. Gwabeswna is a Bangla word for research and we have a global community of locally led at adaptation and resilience actors. We have been holding this conference at the early part of each year, bringing them together a global community of practice from around the world. These are practitioners and researchers looking at what are we learning on adaptation. And then, during the middle of the year or the second half of the year, we have the annual CBA conference, the community based adaptation conference, which will be on the third and fourth of October as you heard. And this brings together the practitioner community, people who are actually doing things on the ground, largely NGOs, a lot of local governments now, very much involved, many human agencies, funding agencies and others. This is now a fast growing community of practice on locally led adaptation to share our knowledge, share our experience, and to learn from each other. And then the third event every year, as you know, is the big conference of parties that is held under the UN Framework Convention. Last year it was in Glasgow, in Scotland. This year it will be in Sharmalshake in Egypt, where not everybody will be able to fly there and participate. But those of us who will be there will be able to bring the messages from the Gwabeswna conference and the CBA conference to those decision makers at the COP and ensure that the voices from the front lines actually feeds into each other. This global decision making process that takes place at the COP each year. So it's a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I look forward to further discussions and taking part in this discussion going forward and hopefully having something very concrete to take forward to Sharmalshake in Egypt in November this year for COP 27. Just let me end by saying that there is a very big opportunity at the moment on adaptation in the UNFCC process, which is the Glasgow, Sharmalshake work program on the global goal on adaptation. There is a global goal on adaptation that we agreed in Paris in article seven of the Paris Agreement, but we never agreed what it would be. We just agreed there shall be a global goal on adaptation. We now have two years to figure out what that will be. And so this is a very good opportunity for us to think about maybe there should be a locally led adaptation global goal. And let's see what we can do about that. I personally feel that that's something we might want to think about and see whether we can figure it out and and put it forward as a proposal. I'll stop there for now and back to Sam or Shuji. Thank you Salim for that. And certainly that locally dead adaptation goal may be something to pitch at the panel later on today. So I'm going to hand over now to Susheela Pandit. It's time that we heard from you the participants. So I'm going to hand over to Susheela, who is a PhD candidate at Kent University on climate adaptation policy and a long term adaptation practitioner and participant in in CBA events as well as some of the others. So over to you Susheela. Thank you Sam. Thank you everyone. Sam has mentioned this is time to hear from the participants as Salim has already mentioned. This is the right time to frame what we want to put it on on the adaptation global goal on adaptation. So we want to hear from all of you how we want to move it forward. We want to hear from you initially as we mentioned it's a practitioner event CBA itself is a practitioner event and we come from different part of the world. So we want to hear from you like which country are you from and where are you from so just to have an overview like how how many and which country we are covering in this webinar. Just to add the link is also in the chat to the Mentimeter. I think people are used to zoom meetings now. We don't have to brief about like how to go to Menti and how to use the code. We can already see a lot of countries coming on. We have a mix of people over here from Bangladesh, Nepal. France, Italy to UK, Germany, US, Jim Bowie, Thailand. So we have multiple continents representing us today. You can see there's still a few people looking for the links to Sheila, but so maybe just give another minute. Good to see a big Uganda contingent where I'm paced as well as Bangladesh. It's great. We share by Amy on the chat. Okay, we have a huge representation from Bangladesh Uganda, also from UK and Germany. So we have a nice mix also from Pakistan Somalia, Japan, Austria, Ghana, Senegal. So we are moving to the next slide. So we have already had this rolling slide on LLA and I hope you may be aware and may not be aware of the locally-led adaptation principles. We can learn more from here as well. So we are just asking on one to five how you rate, how well you understand the locally-led adaptation principles. How familiar are you with this? We have a mix of everyone then. So what are the LLA principles is the one if you are not aware of what LLA principles are. You have just heard this today or you have just heard it now, but you still want to explore. You can click on the what are the LLA principles question mark. We have a huge bunch of people who have a decent understanding of the principle but could not know, but could know more. Somewhere in the middle. I hope this two-hour session will be very fruitful for the people who are mentioning. I know what are the LLA principles. I want to know more. I'm aware but I want to know more or I have a decent understanding and want to know more. So I'm still waiting for a few more seconds and then we're ready. So we have like five LLA champions. I know all about it in detail. So five of the LLA champions are on the room. Thank you so much. So I hope you are representing some organization or you are doing some research as well. So how you or your organization is already applying the LLA principle. So if yes, please click yes. If no, then no. And as Salim also mentioned, we are still having this learning on new, although it's been a CV is modified or improvised person. We are still new on LLA, it's launched last year only. So we are, we are aware that it may be, we may be doing LLA, but we are not aware of it. No problem with that. This is a platform where we want to learn and explore and test as well whether our work is supporting LLA or not. So no problem when there is no right and wrong, there is no yes and no, this is just to have an observation like what is going around in the world so that we can gather this information and let's work together on it. Okay, so we have around a lot of people like 37 of them already working on LLA principle. And we are happy to have like 23 who 24 who will be, who will be doing the LLA in the future, I think, already not started then. Thank you everyone. Let's move to the next question then. Okay, as we mentioned, there are like eight principles on the LLA. So which principle of LLA is most relevant for your work. So which one is the one you prioritize on your work, feel like this is really, this is the area that I'm working on. So we have highlighted this, we have put on the eight principles. Also you can click on this so image. If you so have this, you have the details of each principle so you can. I think we will not have time to go through all of these details but if you want to just verify whether you are clicking the right one you just can click this and then come back. Then come back and put your, put your which principle you are supporting mostly on. So it's a principle 1234, which one you are doing, or the eight transparency and accountability. Oh now the principle will be shifted as for the category. Sorry for that. I didn't realize that previously. No problem with that. Okay. The first one is building on building a robust understanding of climate fix and uncertainties, flexible programming and learning, devolving decision making to the lowest appropriate level. That's really nice to hear. We're still waiting for you. If you have any problem on clicking it is get back to Amy. Amy will support also on getting the core or the link for you. So understanding climate fix and uncertainty and decision making for the lowest appropriate level is getting in the top. So most of us feel like these tools are the area we are working on. We still see like the reason opportunity to work on transparency and accountability and prioritizing. So it's a significant and persistent stable funding, which is, which is a tough area, and we all know funding areas and the accountability, the governance side of it. So still a lot of work to be done on that part, we are still have to do a lot of it on on that area but we're so happy to see that. Most of our work are supporting on devolving the decision making and the lowest appropriate level and building the climate fix and uncertainty and investing on long term local capability. That's really good to hear. So we want to move to the next slide. If you want to have your work to be placed on, please just have the click which principle you are following this principle your work is supporting. So thank you so much so devolving decision making is really making a very smooth pick complete together with climate fix and uncertainty and long term local capability. Thank you so much everyone, we will be now moving to the next one. As we mentioned, like there is a lot of work we need to do on the LA it's not like a top down approach you have a fixed program and you run it it's like more involved with local communities and things. So what are the barriers you have found while delivering the LA in practice so we want to hear from you. So I thought to as a salim was also mentioning like there are the barriers then we need to learn from the barriers we need to, we need to have this understanding so that we can better prepare everything. The community can better prepare themselves. So what are the barriers that you have have in your practices in your work on the ground that we can learn from that all of us can learn from because as we see we come from different geography, we come from Africa from Asia from Europe from the US. We have all variety of barriers as well, which could be specific to a geography or maybe worldwide barriers like worldwide problems for everyone. So we want to hear from you. What barriers you are having on delivering this LA principle on practice. The funding is coming on number one funding is a big, big bundle over there financing funding, little climate change finance. So when this is a sorry this is a word cloud so if you put a single word it will be interesting to have a group of word coming together. Just to add that it's also possible to add more than one answer so if you do think a more than one, go for it. Yeah. So coming as funding the access to financing monitoring and evaluation lack of resource power imbalance. Oh my God how many barriers we have where but we still we still focus on doing the things. You can see like this, the boxes are getting so small and small. The literacy, the policy power finance racism poverty coordination funding consistency, a lack of understanding finance to local level culture of appreciation centralized decision making monitoring and evaluation lack of motivation power imbalance. So a lot of things are coming around. Over here. Mal adaptation practices promoted as well somebody has mentioned it on it. Lack of accountability lack of time. Fixed mindset political interference woman excluded the understanding few actors so we have like little, little actors like. Only a limited actors, limited time for the project so we have like three or two five years of project where we dream for a transformation. That's also true on awareness resources. That's really interesting. Thank you very much. It's great. Do keep those answers coming in if you're thinking of more. It's great to see them and we'll be putting out a magnifying glass to study those in more detail after the session. So thank you so much. I will stop the slide now. Thank you so much everyone for your input. Thank you so much. So it's time now to hear a little bit about locally led adaptation from around the world. And we have a short video to show you which gives a little flavor of what local adaptation might look like and what local adapters want to see when it comes to locally led adaptation. And this is also a good opportunity to think of any questions that arise for you for the panel so use the Q&A function if you've got anything you want the panel to discuss. Please do you put it in the Q&A and of course there's plenty to chew on coming out of that metameter as well. So if we can cue the video please. Thank you. What I would love local adaptation to look like is the inclusion of children in participating in local adaptation. What I mean is children being involved in knowledge acquisition and children also being part of the behavior change communication that is targeted in communities. An example is like the community you work with which is predominantly a pastoral community. In the future I would love that local adaptation programmes focus on the children and so in this way children can be able to also participate and understand other livelihood options that will help them mitigate issues surrounding disaster management. In Honduras the temperatures are increasingly higher and the price seasons are harder too. Y tiempo de invierno, las llubias no son, tambien distribuidwys. Y llamadaw o las acciones es pues implementar practicas de adaptación al cambio climatico. Tanto yn agricultura, y medidas che' permitha'n che' los agricultores tenga mayor resiliencia che' implica el uso adecuado del agua, el uso de semia as adaptada al clima sego. I los retos o los desafios es tener mayor integración entre la sociedad civil y gobiernau. Para un trabajo mas eficientegon la participación tambien de las comunidades. What we are doing from Nepal is mostly we try to address this impact through mostly through agriculture. So as Nepal is agriculture based economy we try to provide them more with technology like for example the high mountain people the food is sufficient for only six months. We try to train people and we try to give technologies knowledge like access to the government services so that they can increase that food availability months at least. So in that process we connect them to the government services like for example weather information one small example. Try to design seasonal calendar according to the changes that are happening. Technologies like water efficient technologies like drip irrigation and more of a greenhouse planting. It's very not sufficient what we are doing since the climate induced disasters are becoming more frequent and the communities are not connected to the data like forecast like future forecast like what's going to happen. If we could connect our communities to these digital information that is forecasted so that the community become more prepared in future. So our main role would be to connect communities to the digital information and as well as to build the capacity it's required to build the capacity to be resilient to the changes that's going to happen in future. Ecológica mujer tejeri saberes moteza. It's an initiative to create a space for the creation of frozen Amazon fruits but behind this there is a very important process is the conservation of the seed and food security in the indigenous territories. With that climate change believe me that in the Amazon department the hunger is going to come because the seeds will not be the same as the previous years. The deforestation, the illegal mining, the oil exploration among others is causing a disorder and a imbalance to the mother nature and its inhabitants. Roof over our heads is a part of global campaign of what women want. Millions of poor people build their houses from recycled materials that are available to them and roofing is a critical part of the house. It's usually made from asbestos sheet, cement roofing, tin sheets, tarpolins, acrylic, plastic etc. And because they are high on carbon footprint these choices do not fit local adaptation practices. We cannot blame poor people for making intuitive choices based on survival. We need today is new alternatives that come from working together with women in these communities. New knowledge that emerge out of scientific knowledge backed with conventional wisdom and data that is collected and owned by communities. Thank you for sharing that video and I want to give a big thank you to all of the partners that made the time to share those little snapshots of what adaptation might look like in different parts of the world. So I'm going to hand over now to Shushi for it. Program Officer at the Global Resilience Partnership who will introduce our panel for today. Over to you Shushi. Thank you. Hi everyone. I am going to kick off a set of presentations by our panelists and then get into an in the panel discussion today and very excited to welcome our four panelists. We have first up, Pauline, who is who works with the rural women network in Kenya and Uganda and Pauline, would you mind sharing your screen and would you mind coming up on video so that we can hear your presentation. Thank you very much. Maybe just a correction. I don't work in Uganda. I only work with rural women network in Kenya. And maybe to add to the introduction, we are also members of the Wairu Commission. Rural women network is a grassroots women-led platform that brings together rural grassroots women's mohode agriculture producers in four counties. We have 47 counties in Kenya. We work with over 600 households alongside the national and county government. It's very important to work with the government, locality and even nationally because of continuity and sustainability. Rural women main focus is food, nutrition and economic security while championing climate smart and conservation agriculture. We empower rural women, rural grassroots women to take charge, build and restore their livelihoods through capacity building and enterprise development. We are impacting agricultural skills to the pastoralist women who are embracing proper agriculture. Like the photo you are seeing there is taken in front of a corn garden because of drought and climate change impact. Pastoralism is being affected and animals have to move. I advocate for grassroots women to participate, lead and benefit from agriculture and rural development. The women are not involved in decision making as much as we know we are the main actors in the agriculture sector. We advocate for climate justice and social inclusion to build resilience to climate change, address social inequality and discrimination against women, girls and marginalized people. Women are disproportionately affected because they are the ones who face water, fire, wood and all that and those are at the pace of climate change as discuss resources. Next slide please, thank you. During the CBA 15, we did apply with other organizations for their catalytic fund and which we were awarded catalytic grants aimed to foster collaboration and continuity between participants at the CBA and Gobiashona conferences. Five teams have received seed grants to develop innovative ideas with new partners. Rural women network, Shibuya community health workers and women climate centre international benefited from this fund last year. We proposed to establish grassroots women led the Syrian livelihood practices and climate information learning centres in three counties to build grassroots level as Syrians. The three organizations come from three different counties, hence the mention of three different counties. This way, our local solutions will inspire global action as we look to the application, not just locally but globally. The photo you are seeing there is of a password to women harvesting vegetables in the established centre within their community. The climate information learning centres are one stop firm where climate solutions are on the community adaptation and resilience practices are disseminated, including climate smart and conservation agriculture, soil conservation, water harvesting, integrated soil fertility management, crop rotation and farm forest. Those are all practices in the climate smart practices. Producing nanochemical liquid fertilizers and it's also a platform for testing new technologies to grow food, vegetables and trees. The catalytic grant allows rural women to deliver training in crop and conservation agriculture, distribute seedings and engage more women in climate smart agriculture. These photos are taken from the different centres. You can see there is a well in the first photo. The second one is harvesting of the liquid manure from the agriculture practice. We also have the fruit tree seedings. We encourage women to do fruit seedings because the wood trees will belong to other people when they mature. We have some women harvesting vegetables in Shibuya centre and we have the centre established at the pastoralist community with Cone Gardens at the bottom of some trees for shading. Now, local-led adaptation places the communities and local actors and I think we have heard that from the previous speakers in the front line of addressing climate change through their day to day socio-economic livelihood activities, e.g. agricultural activities that conserve the natural resources including soil, water, land, landscape, land cover and forests. Local-led adaptation achieves more results with the little resources. This we mean that because this is the ownership of the practices by the communities. Now that we are doing a bottom up, then we can use the little resources to upgrade these practices by enabling communities to make important decisions also without push biologies or motivation by donor driven resources. As a local actor, I want to see more awareness, knowledge, scaling up and replication of local-led adaptation activities to reach out more communities for sustainability. And maybe I will mention that the communities don't just want to be consulted, they want to be involved. That is our Cone Garden with vegetables seed one of the centres. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you Pauline. That was great. That was a very inspiring presentation if I may say so. Next up we have Anish. Anish is also a catalytic grant winner. The catalytic grants were constituted by GRP, CJRS and ACAD and ACAD is the primary lead in managing these. So, Nick, thank you to both Pauline and Anish for joining the session. Anish, over to you. Thank you, Sushi, for this introduction and lovely connection with this small grant initiative that we implemented with ICAD and Global Regions Partnership. Also, I think there was climate justice in this fund behind to make this initiative a success. So, to start with my hour work, we had been got the opportunity to work on the climate change adaptation and gender coping with the climate fix by empowering Omen in the mountains. This small grant project that we did over the course of last, I think the last month of couple of months of 2020 and until mid 2021 where we discussed and elaborated on the Omen's involvement and engagement and empowerment. And climate through mitigation and adaptation so you can see how this initiative. So this initiative was implemented in Nepal and India. So we did two focus villages where we conducted pilot initiative implementation and we see how Omen's can be engaged, empowered and build the capacity for leadership development in context of developing the climate leaders. So our activities under this project was as a part of the research where we conducted the Omen's involvement, engagement, their impacts on them, the climate change and what mitigation initiative and they are already implementing in the ground and also what kind of adaptation measures can is being applied and can be applied in the future. So it was one of the major work of this, our initiative and then second, it was to create a sustainable Omen's resource centre. We not only to do the research or discussion on what is a problem and what we are doing but also how we can build them in a single umbrella so that they can have a sustainable place to convene, discuss and transform their initiative to the next level. So our Omen's resource centre as part of like Omen's groups that usually it's established in villages but not with the proper structure and mandate but this time we wanted to play it more with innovativeness to consider implying and engaging them as a part of the climate leaders initiative. So the three was to document their case studies of all of this, discuss on Omen's centre research and then we also develop a video out of that. So the objective of this project overall was to build the capacity and training to the each one Omen group in Nepal and India on the climate adaptation and also to improve the community resilience through agro virus to be product as a means of livelihood opportunity by restoring their ecosystem based services. Then the next one is to develop the climate resilience and adaptation through agricultural and social interference is just to bridge the existing in interpreneur initiatives or livelihood initiatives that Omen are doing in form of the Ismaili scale home industries and cottage industries, how that is contributing and has a potential to link it with the climate activism. So that was one of our major core objectives and then again to document and reflect upon the self initiative though you know not only to discuss or to train or support the existing initiative also to document so that we have a proper kind of visualization of what is happening and how we can to like inspire that to others through the document isn't we have so we have this documentation on climate change with the goal of highlighting key action needed to build a future. So last one was to restore the livelihood option opportunities of the vulnerable communities by improving ecosystem based adaptation being done by climate impact so climate has been impacting a lot of the livelihood option lot of the household chores also and then also how people are engaging with the environment so we want to restore this to giving back to the community with the help of the community base. Adaptation and also how we can improve their resilience through new exploring new livelihood option and empowering on the existing ones. So outputs. So the outputs of this initiative was to from formation of two omen group or sorry, not omen groups two omen resource center in terms of three omen groups each in the Nepal and India, where the omens were trained and empowered on climate. The second was on the knowledge here and technical support so we provided on knowledge sharing, and they also to share the knowledge of their own, what they have been doing on mitigation and adaptation and what kind of support that need in like to restore their livelihood through agriculture to new livelihood options, and also through other engagement and financial opportunities to again and build the momentum forward. So form and supported omen group for climate mitigation and adaptation. So that contributed to building a climate conscious society through the omen leadership and not only on that. Also, as you know, omens have been suffered, you know, they're in the household chores, due to the energy needed that they need to have which is, you know, usually obtained from quail and the woods that's available in the village. So but we inspired them to have the energy transition and what kind of impacts that they that both can have in the help personal health of the individual and also to the environment. So to have the more sustainable energy in terms of the climate friendly way, we tried to then provide with the clean cooking stops and other exploring other options for the energy transition. So the last thing we had is the challenges and we are forward. Also, while implementing this kind of initiative, we have to go local, and that you know we might not have a proper information, you know what type of community locality it is, and what is needed in the community so we have to establish a connection with the local organization or community based organization CBOs, like the community based adaptation to make it happen possible. So that is the problem to reach on to the actual local organization then to provide them sustainable platform for the cross learning and sharing that is also one of the challenges that we need to see in the future. And then we need not only need to stop here the initiative that we have, but also to see how we can scale up, we can build that and we can take this forward so we need a sustainable and scalable partnership and to with the community based organizations, donors, local government agencies and interested individuals. So we have to find a way to establish that and take it forward so that is also opportunity, no challenge to make people understand and bring them in the one umbrella to discuss this and I think this kind of interactions like that we are having today in form of the CBA conference that might be an opportunity to overcome those challenges, I guess. So, yeah, I, not to take long, I wrapped up it here, my presentation and if you have any questions and comments or inputs on this, I will really love to hear and thank you very much and I think it's very useful and very learning and very motivating one of this kind of discussion on community based adaptation and I think locally later solution and adaptation is the future of the universe and the world, thank you. That was, that was great and all, and all sort of very inspiring ending, if I may say, so you sort of put out a clarion call for locally led adaptation and how the progress with it. Next, I'm very pleased to introduce Marcia Toledo, who's the resilience lead with the high level champion team and she comes in with great experience on resilience and on funding programming of resilience and also runs the race to resilience initiative so Marcia, Marcia, over to you. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to be here with all of you today, and fantastic to hear and understand the perspective as well from the speakers of the opportunities to advance locally lead adaptation so my name is Marcia Toledo, I am from Peru recently joined the high level climate champions team as a resilience lead. And as we heard, we recognize that people and communities on the front lines are of climate change are often the most active and innovative in developing adaptation solutions. Local communities understand the local context very well they're surrounding the nature systems and have cultural bonds. However, this community is lack access to the resources and agency needed to implement solutions against the impacts of climate change effectively. And we, we recognize the evidence that shows that locally dead adaptations ensures those solutions implemented with the communities can deliver resilience to people and nature in the time. For this reason, at the level of the high level climate champion teams. We're working to mobilize non state actors, which are communities, businesses, cities, regions, investors, civil society groups and others to accelerate adaptation and an enhanced resilience of 4 billion vulnerable people by 2030, as part of the race to resilient campaign, and then new agenda on resilience breakthroughs that we are developing. The four people billion goal that we have in the campaign was explicitly defined by the non state actors. Especially to the focus that all their efforts to foster adaptation interventions and resilient will benefit people and nature. And because there is race to resilience fully endorses the principles of locally led adaptation, we're playing an active role in asking our partner, and in exploring how we can enhance and improve those actions on the ground that are supporting locally led adaptation. Our, our campaign is considering as well, how we can tell the story of the process in regards of resilient attributes to, to recognize how communities are enhancing their agency, their local knowledge, their capacity, and that richness will be also be channeled through sharing of adaptation and communities of practice is critical to learn how those actions are being designed financing implemented and especially measure in a way that non state actors can be improving is a process to as well gain the opportunity to improve and allow more bottom up and local actions to be at the center of decision making. Obviously, we know in this group and I'm really very keen to emphasize the non state actors play an important role in deploying solutions technology innovations for adaptation and resilience. But we need to make sure that these efforts are incorporating local communities knowledge capacity decision making and channeling the financial flows in that direction. This means involving local perspective in every step of the adaptation implementation from the design to the delivery, empowering and strengthening the capacity of local leaders and groups. It is critical to enable that co creation process, and to bring the lenses of equity and justice. At the level of the high level champions team we're doubling down on that effort to elevate more the perspectives of the vulnerable communities to help inform where and how those enormous ideas and solutions that can come from non state actors can be better channel and address towards the cup this year. We're eager to elevate and encourage businesses and investment partners on the road to co 27 to adopt and promote locally lead adaptation of opportunities. We're developing these resilience breakthroughs agenda, where we want to embed the locally live opportunities very explicitly, as well as making sure in our reporting and measuring of this implementation actions, how we're holding ourselves accountable to deliver locally lead adaptations in practice, making the changes necessary learning adopting and improving the processes. Similarly, there is this richness of these 30 partners and more than 2500 members that are working more than 100 countries in the campaign, where there is opportunities for highlight success stories. Similar to the one shared previously, so that we're more understanding what it means in practice locally lead adaptation, and can learn from it and elevate the opportunity to accelerate implementation. Most important, the work on non state actors is not an agenda on its own and separated. It has to be close to articulated with the work of the governments. We want to make sure that the naps, the NTCs, that national level planning are well articulated with local opportunities with local enhancements that can happen at the level of the local communities for increasing that ambition loop but at the same time to really truly deploy adaptation and resilient at the local level. So locally lead adaptation can unlock support and leverage enormous potential and creativity of communities to develop and implement solutions. We must challenge ourselves and make the necessary changes to accelerate resources, including the finest mobilisation to enhance locally live practice. And we must avoid that locally lead has just been words. For these, we have ideas, innovations, solutions that we can elevate to better reflect this opportunity. Thank you. We are very pleased to bring forth next of Madeline Dope, who is the LEP chair based in Senegal, and she will be giving us a brief presentation from her perspective on the LLA. Madeline, thank you for coming on video and over to you. Thank you, Sushi. Thank you. Thank you for inviting me as LDC chair to participate to these events. I think it's really pleased to have this platform allowing many projects to be here in particular local project. I just want to thank all a speaker, a previous speaker for sharing this innovative local adaptation project. I am, as I say, I am LDC chair and as LDC chair, we really know that we have 46 countries concerned by this group. We are negotiating on the climate change process and we want to ensure that the most vulnerable population have a voice really on the table. And when we're talking about the most vulnerable population, we're talking about local communities, we're talking about countries who are really facing climate change impact. And basic, I think, basic enormous necessity to ensure that those communities are the needs and priorities due to climate impact will take on board. It is why, as LDCs, and as you have shown in some projects, we have also developed LDCs vision. To ensure that the resilience of these poor communities, of these most vulnerable communities to climate change will be well tackled. So we're looking for having really resilience plus pathway. And in order to do that, we have also set up some initiatives. And one of our initiatives is the initiative for effective adaptation and resilience. Why we do that? We noted that, as been mentioned, resource finance not go to where is needed in particular adaptation finance. As LDCs, we only receive at the local level, we only receive 20% around 20% of the finance resource. And on this 20% of adaptation finance resource, only 10% go to the local level. So we need really to see where to ensure that most vulnerable communities have access to the resource, have access to be in a position to implement their needs, their priorities, because they know how to adapt, they know how to really shift from business as usual to adaptation measures. So our approach to do that, what we're doing, as I say, we really look for through this LIFA initiative, we actually implementing this initiative with a different partner who have joined this initiative. We have some developing countries who have joined this initiative. This initiative is under the leadership of LDCs countries. And we have actually some front running countries like Uganda, like Burkina, Bhutan, around the different LDCs countries, we start implementing such a local approach on adaptation. I think it's key, because it's key, because we want as LDC to show that we're dealing with the need of our population. We have the most vulnerable, we don't have access to funds. Our communities are really facing every year, every time climate events, so we need really to ensure that the resource is reaching them. So this is the objective behind LIFA LDCs initiative. Our objective is to ensure that 70% of resources dedicated to adaptation reach really the communities. Our expectation is really to ensure that we're going to reduce the transaction cost, because we know that there is a lot of high transaction in the business process. So we need to ensure that we minimize these transaction costs. This is what, and to do that, we want really maybe to minimize the intermediary between the resource donor and the communities donor, because the assessment show that we have a lot of intermediaries. And this brings the high level of transaction costs. This brings, but all the resources not really go directly to the communities. So this initiative is to ensure that local people are driving projects, building their capacity through developing and implementing the project, but also ensuring that we're having a key monitoring process. I think this is important. I think in the beginning you have started talking about monitoring, ensuring that we're building the resilience for these communities is highly important. And I think through this kind of different experiences we're having at the community's level, through your community adaptation approach, I think this will help us really to show, but adaptation is highly needed, is a matter of urgency, and also we're showing that we're building the resilience and the capacity. So to allow poor people who are victims of climate change really to overcome with this climate impact as a. So saying that, I just want to say as LDCs also, we're working closely with all the global communities, also through the UNSCC process, to ensure that finance, adaptation, finance will be double. It was a decision taken in Glasgow last year. We're looking really for having a clear roadmap to ensure that finance is adequately made available for adaptation. We're looking for ensuring that accessibility is here, quality of finance is here, really to show, to ensure that it's going directly to communities, it's going directly to local project going on adaptation in order to scale up the resilience, in order also to be assured that we can respond to what we're looking for is building resilience and minimizing really the specificity of LDCs who are really facing climate as a. I want also to mention that the issue of flexibility in the process is also something we're looking for, because we know that LDCs can't wait. They are the ones who don't have the capacity really to go in big procedure in order to access to the resource. So how to make the process really more simple, because it's not really procedure you can work on. What we need is really action on the ground and what is what the science is asking us. So how we can maybe work to simplify the procedure. So life also is looking for that to really simplify the procedure to ensure that we're having action on the ground. We're having also some results coming from the action on the ground and also this will allow us to ensure that all these communities. We participate in this international effort of reaching out to the global goal on adaptation. We're working on the global goal, but we, as been mentioned, we want to ensure that action going on the ground will fit the global goal on adaptation. And we're looking really to try to go for all these experiences, all these look on the table, but action needs to be scaled up because it's a matter of the population who don't need to wait for procedure process. They have to really adapt their livelihood to climate change. Thank you very much. Thanks Madeline, that was great. Thank you so much. And could we have the finalists turn out in their video for a bit until we begin talking and maybe you can switch it off in a bit. Anish Pauline. Great, thank you. Perfect. And we have a few questions, but we are running short on time, so I will not delve into my own questions, my own bank of questions, but clearly dive into the audience questions directly. And I'll start in the order of the speakers. So I'll start with Pauline. And I'll have one round of questions to each one of you and then maybe questions that you can take in order of your expertise so we can start with Pauline. And Pauline, there's a question on power imbalance and a lot of your work is about building capacity. So I thought it would be a good segue into talking about how can we address the power imbalance, which is caused by socio-economic status, culture norms, gender norms, et cetera, within communities, which influence community participation in adaptation processes. So it would be great if you could shed some light from your experience on this talk. Thank you very much. I'm not sure I had the last bit, but I'll try to respond. The running centres are not just agricultural learning centres, but centres where communities meet, where women meet and exchange ideas, exchange technology, which is predicted elsewhere. I was not able to present a bit of it, where the centres are also working as a peer learning platform, where women can meet and talk about gender-based virus and other biases within the communities. So we can harness what is happening and get to the Raja community because the women, by the end of the day, have to get this to their home level. So I think we can build the capacity knowing that this is going to be replicated elsewhere and it's going to reach the Raja community at the end of the day. And these skills also, we have seen that women outside the centres have also replicated and they are being adopted by even people who are not associated with the centres, but they have benefited from the experience and the running from those ones who are directly involved. Thank you. Anish, we have a question for you. I am dipping into my own bank of questions for you, just to keep it fresh. I mean, your project is super interesting because you're talking about empowering women and it's all research based. So I wanted to know what you think are the key success factors. We've heard a lot about barriers to LLA, but what are the key success factors that you see in the work that you've done? So first thing that I want to highlight on this is to bringing the women. So it's really one of the great achievements, I would say, because women usually in the countries like Nepal and India are limited within their household because of the several socio-economical and political challenges of their accessibility and how they have been treated in the society and all. So especially, we are not talking about the women here who are well educated and then enjoying the luxury of having education job and all, so that usually going to the community where there are several challenges of getting education, getting off the accessibility of the information and also to get accurate with all of this topic like climate change and all. They know that they are being victim or having been in a problem in some weather change and all, but they don't know the concept actually of what the climate change is and how it is impacting. So this is one of the key achievement that we first get to reach to those omens and then to tell them what is the problem, what is the possibilities of not only having a problem, but to explore of what we can bigger make out of that problem as the adaptation is one of the crucial opportunity we have. So that is one achievement and the second is to bring them in under one umbrella, under one roof as a woman groups and to form them as a resource center. So not only one woman knows everything, but that key we have the system or that we have the platform where people can share with each other and then everybody knows everything. I mean, at least of what we are discussing and then they can move with their sustainable initiative, grow that and also take it forward. So it's an information and technical expertise and then the resources sharing platform such as the woman resource center was a great thought and very good one that we achieved. And then we commit to is to deliberate on the what are the problems in the society or what is the problems with the climate aid adaptation when we have this community-aid initiatives and how this can be transformed to the bigger level, bigger scale moving even out of the community when we go to the country level or international level that how we can share the success stories. I think that was one of the major achievements that we come out of this discussions. So I think, yeah, but but this the rest of the challenges is not only to get out those achievements but also to make it reach with the donors and partners so that we can scale up as I think mentioned in the presentation. So major thing is to scale up. People need more investment, more knowledge, more support and more engagement that they can connect their thoughts of the problems to the higher level and get to have the solution to be delivered in the local level to a local level initiative or the resource that's already in the local level. I think that's the major thing that we got and should be. Thank you. Thanks Anish. You are super popular in chat so if you could look up the chat and answer questions both you and Pauline. Pauline there are quite a few questions that are directed to you in chat which are very specific so if you could look those up as well and answer them both Anish and you. I will turn to Marcia next I am aware that we are super short on time, we have only 10 minutes so and I think only five minutes for the panel. So Marcia, I have two tough ones for you actually. The first one is on measuring LLA and how do we measure LLA and I think among the panelists you would be the person who we can turn to answer this question. The second one is are we trying to reinvent the wheel when we are not building on or when we seem to be or we are perceived as not building on the long history we have of development initiative in the world and can we not build on those experiences. So both these questions if you could quickly sort of link the two and answer. Yes, thank you. Very important questions. Measuring LLA adaptation requires also an understanding of the process of how enabling conditions have improved. And it's in many cases as well a qualitative improvements. So how the level of engagement and how the level of knowledge capacity awareness access to the information or participation or engagement in governance settings. It is critical to understand that we are not necessarily everything can be quantified and say amount of number of percentage but we have to understand the process and the qualitative change. And it's based as well on how it's improved an awareness knowledge and participation on more on on behavior that could tell us the story. If those efforts to work with communities to enhance the capacity to empower has actually resolved. So, but we have to as well get comfortable with be able to say how this has transition, what efforts have been made to improve those conditions so we have to speak about them. We have to tell the stories, the lessons, when is easy what barriers we have and not not necessarily always. We have a method to collect that and facilitating those conversations being able to bring that information also forward from the communities is critical. It's not only the methods that we use, or what we want to get out of it, but it's also how do we capture the information so that it's actually accurate and help us find ways to improve and be sensitive to those cultural difference that might exist. And also social different roles that different members of the community play in regards of bringing previous lessons learned, I am completely fully agree with this. It's like there is many different agendas, but they all converge one way or another under the lenses of climate. So it adds an extra channel and an extra challenge. It forces as well that we bring how we can make decisions and how we can enhance adaptation through the lens of climate. All the experience working with communities, understanding social patterns, all the experience working with deployment nature based solutions or other activities that are related to the patient will be helpful. I don't agree to reinvent the wheel. I am fully aware this is not the purpose, but using all that knowledge and acknowledging that knowledge is critical to say where we go forward and how we each time close in the barriers. And each time we're getting more opportunities to accelerate those solutions. Thank you. Those were very, very valuable answers and I think very on point. Thank you for keeping them. I've been told we have three extra minutes, so that's a good thing. I can squeeze in some extra questions. Madeline, there are quite a few interesting questions for you, but I have one that seems really interesting. How can we ensure that there is equality among the LDCs in the implementation of adaptation approaches in terms of distribution of resources, success rates, and other options. So over to you in order to answer this question. Thank you, thank you. I think it's important. Yes, we need to ensure first that all LDCs have access to resources for their adaptation needs. I think this is good. So for LDCs, we used to do what we call our NAPA. It was the first document tweeting the agency on taking on board and tackling the issue of adaptation. I just want to let you know that the LDCs are good to bring the issue on adaptation because we are the ones who are really seeking this important aspect as a matter of agency. And since the Marrakesh Accord. So this is what we have a through the NAPA, the LDCF fund. So it's a fund where all LDCs can have access to implement some adaptation project. So it's under the Jeff Porter for you. We also working through DCF to ensure that all LDCs have also access to resources in order to implement their adaptation needs through also the NAPS or the National Adaptation Plan or through also the LDCs. We also working with the adaptation board fund, the adaptation fund, who is a fund coming from the Kyoto mechanism to ensure that all LDCs countries are in the position to access to resources to implement some adaptation. So it's also our mandate to ensure that we enhance the resources allocated for adaptation. And when I'm talking about, I'm talking about the adaptation finance and it is a urgent need. So as LDCs, we have to ensure that and ensure that all LDCs countries are implementing and having access and easy access to this fund in order for communities at the local level to implement the very, very, very need and I just made that before. I think this is what I want to say. Thank you. Thank you so much. And I'll squeeze in just a quick reflection from all of you just one more take away from each one of you. We'll start with, we'll start with Madeline and then go backwards Marcia, Pauline and Anish. So Madeline, if you could give like one word reflection your takeaway from today's conversation. What I can say is really thank you. I think this kind of event, grabbing all what is going on at the local level on adaptation is key. So we have to show it to the world. We have also to ensure that the resource for adaptation is coming and allowing us to scale up all these different experiences you have shared today. I thank you and we continue working closely with you. Thank you so much Madeline. Marcia. A lot important takeaway from my side at least is valuing those locally led adaptation opportunities is critical for all actors for non state actors and the side of the work that the climate change champions are pursuing, but as well for governments in regards of ensuring that adaptation resilience happens first at the local level and can be scale and transform more parts of the world. Thank you so much, Anish, very quickly. I think we are just about at time. Okay, thank you, thank you. Yeah, I think the major takeaway is this kind of interaction is really heartwarming in terms of to this year we bring stories and we get inspired. So inspiration is the key of being anything. Thank you. We continue the momentum with inspiration for more inspiration and to have a larger impact. Thank you. Thank you, Pauline. Thank you very much. I think for me, take home is that the communities bring a lot at the grassroots level. We need resources directed to these communities, not as beneficiaries, but as partners. And like I had said earlier on, the communities don't want to be consulted. They want to be involved. They want to be partners at the table, not as passive listeners, but shaping the conversation as we go move forward. Thank you. And I think I hand over to Suhila for a final plugin of the CBA. Thank you, Suhila. Thank you, everyone for this wonderful talk and conversation. Thank you, panel. Thank you, Suhila. Thank you, Salim. And thank you, Sam. Thank you, team. And thank you all the audience who participated, asked the questions and provided your inputs on LLA. And finally, we would like to announce that the CBA is coming on. And it's already 16 years. So the CBA is 16, putting the LLA principles into practice is coming on third and fourth of October. So this will be a virtual conference. There is a link. Amy, can we have the link on the chat so that people can sign up for the updates on CBA and can join on the CBA as well. And hope to see you on the CBA conference. Thank you, everyone.