 Good morning. Good evening. Good afternoon to all of you from wherever you are. I'm based in Dhaka, Bangladesh And my name is Salim al-Haq. Please follow me Salim I'm the director of the International Center for climate change and development and it's my pleasure to be with you here At this closing session. We have a lot of very exciting Items to come to share with you, but let me just give you an overview to start with of What it is that has just been done as you know, this is the 15 series in the series of international Conferences on community based adaptation something I started well over 15 years ago when I was based in IID in London And I'm very glad to see that it has continued since I've left IID and moved to Bangladesh And in the last two years We have actually gone virtual last year's CBA 14 conference and this year's CBA 15 We have done virtually, which has had both its problems, but also potential Additional benefits of having much greater participation from all over the world people not having to fly in to an in-person conference The theme for this year's conference was local solutions inspiring global action and we had five Themes within that one on climate finance one on innovative For innovation for adaptation a third on responsive policy a fourth on nature based solutions And a fifth on youth inclusion and we'll be hearing From each of these theme leaders some of the outcomes of those discussions But before we do that, let me share with you a video that we've received from Ann Marie Pavellian who is the UK's minister for state of business energy and green growth, but also the champion for adaptation and resilience in the COP26 presidency Friends and colleagues good afternoon and delighted to be speaking to you all today I would like to thank the practitioners researchers civil society and grassroots organizations In attendance for their continued leadership on this important agenda In my role as the UK's international adaptation and resilience champion for COP26 I have spent the last nine months listening to those on the front line about the urgent need for action to respond to climate risks and large-scale biodiversity loss The impacts are clear extreme weather such as floods and heatwaves and slow onset changes Including sea level rise and desertification are altering landscapes impacting livelihoods and communities However in the face of such adversity there are countless stories of communities displaying Extraordinary ingenuity and innovation in responding and preparing for climate risks From floating schools in flood prone areas to changing crop types to be resilient to drought To improving management of water resources I recently had the honor of meeting the Maleku indigenous community in Costa Rica Hearing of their challenges in the face of climate change These encounters will always stay with me I am here to stand with those at the forefront of climate change and to be their people's champion In doing so I want to provide a platform for stories of resilience from women and girls, young people, indigenous people and people living with disabilities to be told at COP Collectively we are all on a journey to scale out adaptation action to ensure that everyone is resilient to current and future climate risks We know that effective adaptation requires local leadership So enabling more locally led adaptation informed by inclusive plans is a critical part of what we as a presidency are seeking to catalyse to continue through to the African presidency at COP 27 In supporting the LDC initiative for effective adaptation and resilience program we recognise that countries and local communities are the experts in determining how to prepare for climate change and they ought to have the autonomy to make decisions on building their resilience The launch of principles for locally led adaptation at the Climate Adaptations Summit signed by over 40 governments, global institutions and local and international NGOs provide a framework for how adaptation can be delivered more effectively Through the adaptation action coalition and the high level champions race to resilience we will hold a set of regional dialogues encouraging both state and non-state actors to champion the principles of locally led action and develop domestic capabilities to transform how adaptation action is both planned and implemented This means building domestic systems, empowering marginalised groups to be part of decision making and ensuring that finance is accessible to those who need it most At the climate and development ministerial we launched the task force on access to climate finance with Fiji and other parties we will align programmatic support behind national climate plans to improve local level access to financial flows Research additionally needs to be locally driven addressing the needs of local communities and the adaptation research alliance launched at the Gorbachev conference is encouraging the adaptation research community to endorse its research principles to carry out action-oriented research that responds to local needs In our path to COP partnerships between local communities, governments and business at a national level and international links to multilateral development banks and climate funds needs to be harnessed and solidified I am excited for what we can deliver and look forward to collaboratively working ahead of COP26 and beyond to deliver more effective locally led adaptation action Thank you Thank you very much Ann for that excellent set of remarks and we look forward to collaborating with you in your capacity as the champion for adaptation and resilience of the COP26 presidency and we hope that we'll be able to feed into the COP26 discussions on adaptation particularly the agenda item on the global goal on adaptation which is often quite a lot of excitement in the scientific arena on this So I'm going to be handing over in a moment to my colleague Aditya Baadu from IID who will be running a hard talk type talk show with a number of our theme leaders from the different themes that I mentioned earlier this will then be followed after that by the results of the Dragon's Den competition that we had where we had pictures from a number of individuals with some excellent ideas and that will be presented and the winners will be announced and then I will be concluding with a panel discussion where we have some very excellent panelists who I will ask to reflect on the outcomes of the CBA 15 conference and what their their personal takeaways would be from what they hear so without further ado let me hand over to Aditya Bahadur to run the hard talk section Good morning, good afternoon and good evening Very warm welcome to another edition of hard talk I'm your host Aditya Bahadur and this is the adaptation broadcasting company Today we have five expert panelists each of whom who has owned, led and shepherded one of the five conference themes over the next 20 minutes they're going to explain what they learned and why their themes matter to begin with we're going to give each of our panelists two minutes to explain the key takeaways from their theme or the over the various days of the conference and then you can judge for yourself whether they've really pushed the boundaries of knowledge further or not I want to assert that Salim Bai has given me only 20 minutes for this hard talk and therefore the CBA has invested in a very high-tech time management system this year as soon as two minutes are up for the first round of questions I'm going to put up this post it in front of my camera and I expect whoever speaking to kindly stop at that point With that I'm going to turn to our first panelists, Obed Koringo, you work with Gare International and you shepherd it and let the theme on responsive policy over to you for your two minutes to share your key messages with our audience today Thank you so much Aditya and my name is Obed Koringo and I was the theme lead for responsive policy which was discussing on how policy from local to global can be focused saw us to prioritize local lead action and local knowledge but we had very good discussions and some of the key messages that came out one is on how urban poor and grassroot women networks have existing innovative strategies and solutions to various disasters and pandemics such as COVID-19 and climate related challenges which need to be resourced and scaled through partnership and collaboration developing the leadership capacities and agency and networks of women should receive special attention to be able to make them agents of change and ensure that climate change responses more effectively meet the needs of women and men in bridging the gap between indigenous knowledge and evolve local government addition making solutions must involve devolving power from national level governments to more localized governance institutions and putting in place affirmative action programs to be able to ensure that local people on indigenous knowledge holders have the capacity to effectively own and govern these localized institutions and implement their own self-determined governance systems while working in partnership with the government loss and damage was also another key issue that was discussed in this theme and due to climate loss and damage due to climate change impact is heavily impacting millions of local communities especially women men ips and children yes yet it is not a priority agenda in the international conventions so there is really an urgent need for our leaders to develop a clear plan to ensure action on loss and damage including making climate finance accessible at local level while ensuring that these finances prioritize approaches designed with strong involvement and led by local vulnerable communities thank you so much thank you so much over it you're almost exactly on time a tough act to follow for Susan Nandudu who works with the African Center for Trade and Development and has led the theme on innovation for adaptation Susan the floor is yours for exactly two minutes I'll try to meet the challenge thank you very much and so Susan I was in lead with Chris Handerson and it was around the innovation theme so beyond the technologies that are widely known to represent innovation we explored the need to and I'll speak to the four points innovate in the recognition of indigenous knowledge and its use we agree it's very important it comes from generations before us it has enabled our existence and has a lot of potential to build resilience in the future but how do we support it how can it be financed and used effectively in the context that we are in where for instance donors have strong commitments towards scale and the demands that they have community groups indigenous groups may not have the capacity to meet so there were lots of discussions that suggest that we need partnerships intermediaries are important but around partnerships it's very important to build respect and put the indigenous communities at the center of any designs for adaptation action moving on to innovations in the utilization of citizen-generated data by urban authorities there was a lot of recognition of the power of the community-generated data and how valuable it is for planning and that in the urban authorities often utilize political incentives for decision-making so how do we as a community ensure that the community-led data is recognized and utilized by the local authorities and other partners so that is still our challenge but we had lots of examples on how many communities in urban areas are utilizing different approaches to mobilize generate data and we need capacity building to ensure to support the communities link bridge that gap with the partners including government the third area was innovating in sustaining adaptation action through partnerships partnerships that work we recognize the the importance of building partnerships from the very beginning partnerships that will integrate private sector and government private sector because over the years we have seen that working in silos does not lead to sustainability but there is a lot of value as long as you show private sector that there is value for them to make money and support it's supporting you're a minute over so i'd be grateful if you could wrap up okay so just one more point that we need in terms of scaling the utilization of climate information services we need to put the communities at the center in the design and spreading of the information services for each to work thank you thank you Barry Smith you're up next you're a researcher with the climate change group at the IID policy researchers have many virtues brevity unfortunately is not one of them so please keep that in mind okay i'll try my best and it does feel crudely reductive to try and boil down just a few points the quite a rich and challenging discussion from the climate finance team but i'll i'll try my best and i think there has been quite a lot of commonality with other teams um particularly around partnership for example that came up quite a lot but let me dive into the key messages from the sessions so from the first session and which focus on brax climate bridge fund one of the messages which came out was that locally NGOs and partner organizations whilst they lack the capacity to apply for and then projects there are other organizations that can help them overcome these challenges so with this in mind funding can focus on not just capacity building which does remain vital but also coalition building and coordination with other organizations with development experience donors and intermediaries need to rethink their role it's not just about the provision of grant finance they need to also act as brokers to help local actors network and build partnership with the organizations and make the connections that they actually need and finally from that session donors need to rethink their appetite for risk get comfortable risk or things aren't going to change from the second session local efforts on financing climate adaptation and risk reduction which was lessons from Asia and Africa and ensuring finance reaches local level isn't just a funding issue it's a governance issue to make best use of the finance communities and local governments need to have the networks skills and knowledge to access fund and design programs but for this to be possible capacity bridging needs explicitly be included in the design and implementation and they need to provide longer term financing strengthening governance takes quite a lot of time so it's used to be provided over longer term catalytic seed funding at the community level is provided as proved to be effective and it's again it's a great way to build partnerships with wider stakeholders that can support adaptation but to scale solutions for longer term investments communities need to be equipped with the information and the skills for funding and so moving on yeah I'm getting two signals here and gender and social inclusion are crucial when discussing planning and implementing innovation and approaches for innovative finance solutions for ecosystem based adaptation and again something which came out from a lot of the sessions was that monitoring evaluation learning is a critical component and that needs to really be integrated into the design and the implementation of projects and it can be a way to catalyze access to novel sources of finance for example from promoting other cross-sectoral collaborations so I will stop here. Thank you very much Barry Alexandra Amreen you work with the GIZ and you led the team on nature-based solutions up to take yourself off mute the floor is yours for exactly two minutes thank you hello everybody my name is Alexandra and I work for the global mainstreaming EBA project at GIZ and yeah we hosted the theme on NBS we had three sessions on NBS and all pursued the question of how local communities can drive NBS for resilient food systems and they did that from different angles one from from the communication side on understanding the effectiveness of EBA another one on the local on the knowledge systems local traditional and scientific and another one on how communities can be put in the driver's seat of planning and implementation and yeah here are the key messages so bottom up project planning and implementation consultations are not enough we need genuine participation but this also means allowing projects time to understand the diversity of communities interests needs and capacities and often this directly is conflicted by doughnut expectations to implement ready made solutions from day zero of the project timeline it was also highlighted that collaborating with local organizations that does not necessarily mean that a community-based approach is in place another message is on customized communication that we need to customize our messages to diverse audiences and our communication about EBA and NBS needs to be digestible and humanized and it needs to be connected to people's daily lives and the needs of our audiences and this means making abstract ideas concrete and knowing and understanding what our audiences needs the last message is on knowledge that we need to break down the hierarchy of knowledge and enable a paired dialogue the different contributions to science and to society must be identified and regarded as as an at an equal level that each knowledge system has valuable aspects to add to the discourse and the hierarchy between knowledge system is artificial and couch productive we need a mechanism to bring knowledge systems together to create an integrated form of new knowledge that's it thank you Alexandra you win the prize for the most prompt panelist I'll go to our last expert Sakeb Haq you work with the international center for climate change and development in Bangladesh and you led the team on youth inclusion two minutes are yours thank you so my colleagues and I we had quite a lot of interesting session applications under the youth inclusion team so we've tried to get some sessions at this year CBA that were a bit more broad that helped us to understand a bit more of the societal and systemic issues and then break down into some interesting conversations which are some of the key messages that I'd like to share now so really one of the key messages that we've come to is capacity building is a chronic problem but it's something that's been seen as more of a top down approach where we're sort of delivering capacity down to the communities which is of course necessary but over our conversations of the the sessions this year what we've really come to learn is that it needs to be more of a two-way street capacity building needs to also not only work with the youth giving them the tools and then some of the skills to be able to break into policies break into decision making circles giving them the climate knowledge that is required but also with policymakers giving them some capacity building to recognize youth as a as a vital stakeholder themselves making them realize that the youth are somebody that they should be approaching and engaging with more intensively which then leads us to one of our other key messages about building long-term partnerships so having more credible partnerships with all the stakeholders that are invested particularly with the youth who have again a credibility issue in terms of attending these decision making meetings when they're there it's more of a token representative that's there but not really somebody that has a say in the planning in the processes and in particular on policies and budgets which is something that the youths have some really big challenges in terms of making any impacts so then that leads us to providing more supportive finance for youth which is something that we've seen for quite a lot of youth activities is something that they get awarded from competitions but they're really minimal amounts a hundred dollars as a prize winner or five hundred dollars but nothing that really helps them be able to take their activities and their actions forward in a more meaningful way and then the final message is just for everybody to sort of realize that the youth particularly the youth in vulnerable areas are agents they're not somebody that is sort of an end process as a token in a meeting that's having a youth a representative comment and make a speech but being able to capacity build with them build these partnerships providing some supportive finance to these institutions really helps them to be agents be the bridge between communities and policymakers as well as researchers and intermediaries like us so hopefully those are some interesting messages and after the cba conference there'll be more about how we can unpack these and work ahead back to you at thank you very much sake i want to keep you on the screen on the spotlight please while i have you um you know we work together on many projects i know you have a lot of experience really think hard and tell me one or two new things that you learned as a result of your engagement at cba i wouldn't say they're new but they're things that i found pleasantly surprising over cba this year is that a the level of enthusiasm it just doesn't wane for youth groups you know the every year there are more and more youth that are wanting to be engaged wanting to set up their own projects and there are some of the youth speakers that we had over this year there are youth that have set up their own organizations there are youth that are establishing their own networks and that really is something that is encouraging to see they're incredibly resourceful and one other thing that i would say is that they're incredibly time aware they're they're aware of how much needs to be done and how little time we have to be able to make impact on that so those i think are some really encouraging lessons about engaging with youth in these communities so that we're really able to make a meaningful impact come true great thanks alexandra if i can bring you back in um so imagine that you're in an elevator and you find yourself next to the president or prime minister of a vulnerable country you have about two minutes till she or he reaches that destination what is your pitch to get them to take nature based solutions seriously why should they care yeah thanks for that um i hope i'd be lucky enough to ever meet the president in an elevator and if so i hope i have the courage to say the following don't wait any longer we are in a climate and biodiversity crisis right now there's considerable amount of climate change and biodiversity collapse that we won't be able to stop even if all countries commit reach their commitments being particularly vulnerable you must prioritize adaptation to climate change above all else protect and rebuild your natural capital it is a foundation of your children's and grandchildren's well-being believe in your ancestors' wisdoms and your people that work to learn every day question the quick technological fix instead work with nature rather than against it invest in ecosystem-based and natural solutions they're more resilient and cheaper in the long run and you will find resources and tools and communities and networks around the world willing to help you with this endeavor and the cba is one of them thanks alexander that was that was suspiciously articulate you reached to reach a store one new insight that you gained at cba that you did not have before um yeah it's not completely new but just understanding again that nbs is a topic that excites and mobilizes many people it's a term that people identify with at the same time we still have a lot of other terms around it and there's sometimes a bit of confusion between nbs eba cba um so that came out quite clearly so we may need some yeah clarification on that without getting lost in the definition because that's just distracting us from action um another thing i learned again it's just the power of multidisciplinary dialogue because in such short times in the breakout groups we managed to came up with an amazing wealth of ideas and different thoughts and approaches and that is just really remarkable great thank you alexandra barry i'll bring you in uh i know you have friends in high places so it's quite likely that you will find yourself in an elevator with a president or prime minister you have 45 seconds it's quite a not a very tall building um over to you okay well i'm gonna i'm gonna flip it i'm in an elevator with the head of state from a developed country and her government hasn't really been fulfilling the the promise that she made so i've got three things i would say first up be more transparent and accountable to the communities that the finance is supposed to serve provide better quality publicly available information on the finance you're providing be brave and hold yourself to account secondly communities know what they're doing your job is to provide seed funding for climate adaptation programs at the community level that have already proved to work be catalytic thirdly there's an asymmetry of information donors and intermediaries need to level the playing field by ensuring the right information is transmitted to and received by the communities on the ground in a usable format you need to be armed with the knowledge and skills on the funding access and program designed by practitioners local governments or by peer-to-peer learning thing reach the bottom floor mr smith firstly i don't know how you got past my security secondly your suggestion sounds ludicrous if we give all the money that we have for dealing with climate change to local communities how will we know how it's being spent what is your recommendation for ensuring accountability if you're sending all the money down to the local level well so this came out quite strongly for me across all the climate finance session i think it's been echoed elsewhere it's the importance of mel it's the importance of operationalizing the learning element now i think the importance of mel is something which is generally accepted but from the sessions i heard a lot that projects must engage local communities and participate in mel activity from the very beginning and really integrate their learning and their information needs throughout the project cycle now this is learning which is properly operationalized and it's going to move beyond accountability and it's engaging local actors but this is going to benefit the donors donors can harness local knowledge of what does and doesn't work so the information can be cascaded upwards okay thank you very much mr smith i'll take that i'll think about that and and we'll see what happens you know i'm not fully convinced yet let's see if the audience of the cba is um um uh i'll ask susan to come into the spotlight now please susan i found your opening remarks really interesting and i think there was so much piff there um but i really want to put you in the spot now and i'll ask you about the top three things that added to your existing knowledge on this topic of innovation for adaptation what are one or two things that you really learned through the interaction through this conference so the emphasis of having the communities at the center before doing anything the top-down nature of solutions is not working it's not sustainable so we need them in the design of technologies including um climate information services that will go a long way the second is the indigenous knowledge has to be brought at the center and donors have to pay attention they have to listen they have to learn um and also support the fact that this indigenous knowledge which is being lost very fast needs to be produced into other formats so that we don't lose it so we need digital ways of keeping the knowledge and learning from it and using it in the future the third it's not new maybe all of this is not new but we still need to pay a lot of attention to capacity capacity needs yeah those three right so susan when i'm not being the prime time tv host i work with something called the adaptation research alliance which is a big new global effort to step up the level of ambition on action research on adaptation they too have a strong emphasis on ensuring that different streams of knowledge knowledge inform adaptation actions but the pathways of making sure the mechanisms of making that happen are still not clear was there any discussion on how can you actually include insights from indigenous communities in adaptation decision-making um oh yes um so so so we need to there are insights uh in terms of bringing their indigenous groups onto the decision-making table we also learned that in bringing partnerships together actually partnerships at the beginning that bring every different players together including researchers including the private sector very very critical in fast listening and synthesizing the knowledge the information that the indigenous knowledge have which actually they share through their lived experiences not our jargon or climate change then we translate that into decision-making i think that came out quite strongly thank you susan thanks for that um our final speaker today is obit korengo please come into the spotlight obit again i found your opening remarks really interesting but similar to barry what if you find yourself in an elevator with the president of kenya what will you be your 45 second pitch on making policies more responses if i was with the president of kenya if i have that privilege and based on the discussion that came out of the responsive policy this is what i will say integrating learning from local knowledge is very crucial in the formulation and implementation of inclusive policies that build the resilience of the most vulnerable groups and while these vulnerable communities are in the front line of climate change impacts they are rarely involved and i've not don't have a voice in prioritizing decision-making and implementing the action that most affect them the discussion is at cba 15 have revealed that local communities including youth and women are already using the indigenous knowledge and local resources to develop working solutions to the challenges facing them it's there for paramount to recognize and listen to these grassroot communities on what they actually need and not what we think they need by including them in the decision-making tables so as to advocate for themselves and to contribute their local experiences to policy making processes in order to deliver more adaptation action at the local level thank you so much uh thank you mr korengo i'm getting late for my meeting but i have a quick question from you uh climate change is a big global problem don't we need global and national solutions to this cross-cutting issues what will individual local communities be able to do about it yes we need global and local solutions and there's there's needs to be able to involve local communities in defining defining their own the needs and priorities in in in both local and national policies and it's not just enough to talk about how grassroot communities should be involved but actually providing them with an avenue to be able to share their stories and advocate for themselves in what matters most because they have solutions with them and have homegrown experiences and strategies that work thank you so much thank you very much uh that's all the time we have for the show this evening i'm going to go back to our producer sam green over to you thanks very much adiche for those tough questions and to all of the theme leads for uh sharing and summarizing um the the outcomes of your discussions over the last few weeks i want to uh now turn it over to the audience we have a large number of people sitting here and really we want to know what is it that you think so we're going to go now to Mentimeter and this is for you who are in the session and any of you who are watching on the live stream as well i'm going to share with you my screen uh which will include uh the code so if you want to go to menti.com and use the code which is loading now 75482077 you can do that on your phone or you can do it by opening another browser window enter that code 75482077 and in any way that you want to phrase them of the messages that you've heard this morning which are the biggest priorities which ones do you think we need to be talking about the most and you can answer more than once so feel free to throw in a few different ones and keep them coming and we're going to use these as part to feed into our messaging so we've got funding coming up we've heard lots this morning about citizen led data about integrating local and particularly indigenous knowledge has come out really strongly um okay some answers coming in thick and fast now this is really exciting so more accessible funding has come up a couple of times building clear and strong links between local communities and national governments yes i think that that vertical integrations come out strongly great keep them coming in including local communities from the beginning regardless if it is in a project planning monitoring or a new funding opportunity monitoring evaluation and learning again can support evidence and decision making and increase the participation of communities great now coming up strongly over and over again which is uh uh really exciting and something that we didn't hear so much last year so it's great to get that in indigenous knowledge recognition yes coming up a few times as well do keep them coming in you can answer more than once getting meaningful finance in the hands of local communities uh coming through the climate finance team now absolutely and want to hear about young people not being included just as tokens but supported fully and empowered in long-term projects so this is great do please keep those coming in and you're welcome to keep submitting them as we continue to go through the session today with anything that you hear we will use these and we'll feed them into the way that we communicate our messages in the future and i'll explain a little bit more about that as we go through so thanks so much for your contributions like i said please do keep feeding those in so that we can keep them and use them as a starting point for things that we produce and indeed for Gubeshana next year's CBA so i'm going to stop this screen share now and i'm going to hand over to Jesper who has led the dragons den uh theme uh Jesper Hornberg is with the global really resilience partnership Jesper over to you thank you very much i'm going to share my screen now it's always a bit exciting to see if it works we uh we have together with IUCN and GRP is co-hosting the dragons den um for the first uh well we've done it several several times uh and have done so again this year we had an exciting cohort of of uh entrepreneurs and and community representatives um and it's always such a pleasure to work with these guys and see what they come up with again this year we had a number of pictures and we had a pretty tough process selecting them we do this with the help of dragons and now i'm hopefully sharing my my screen we could see that yeah okay good and we had a distinguished panel this year we had Koja Nan who brings a lot of experience from the philanthropic philanthropic world as well as impact investing we had the pleasure of having a previous winner with us Doris uh great she won in Uddis when we did the same thing we had Edith Kiss uh an investment and development director also bringing investment experience and asking really potent questions and finally we had Adam Bornstein who is working with innovation and finance and systems change at the Danish Red Cross also someone who who tells you to do that he will do crazy stuff and then he goes and do them uh Dustin he goes and do them sorry um we um went through this process it was pretty tight we had a couple of strong contenders uh but we finally and i'm happy to see that this person is online uh we finally arrived at uh Waste to Watts with Chikun Buzo Killembe as the winner so i would i'm not going to talk anymore now uh i will ask him to unmute and very briefly if i give you two three minutes uh go through what it is that you do so that the whole audience here can can listen in good afternoon and thank you so much and i'm very excited to be announced winner of the Dragonstone pitch uh my project the proposal is to do something on waste management and uh other aspects of uh energy generation as well as provision of fertilizer so the way this model the way the pitch went uh if you could go to the next slide please uh quickly i can't wait for the embassy of violent in long way uh and where my inspiration came from uh to to do something on waste management uh is when we had promotion of energy solutions for the poor culminating in the achievement of two million cookstores by 2020 a commitment that Malawi did uh a few years back if we could go then to next slide so the problem that i am i i found is that there's poor waste management in Longway City there's lack of waste segregation uh and to support value addition to waste and there is also a charcoal problem increased use of unsustainable illegal charcoal mostly in urban areas and there's also low agricultural production due to poor soil fertility by small order farmers so realizing these problems there's a solution that i put forward going to the next slide and this solution is uh to to initiate improved waste collection methods which would include segregation of waste and from the waste especially organic waste to produce biogas uh from food waste as well as from restaurants and then once the biogas produced sell back to them and as well as the liquid fertilizer if we could go to the next slide uh our value proposition is that biogas can substitute both charcoal and LPG LPG in Malawi is mostly imported and is subject to price fluctuations and charcoal mostly is outlawed in Malawi because it's it's legally produced most of it so biogas has a lot of value in this respect and in terms of waste collection uh waste collection uh beta waste collection in Longway City and other cities can be an enabler of other businesses ie recycling uh in two bricks and other other recycling methods that can be employed so that's a a plus and thirdly liquid fertilizer could be a game changer in Malawi because it's going to reduce the burden that is there on the uh current fertilizer subsidy program so that's why we're proposing this so the next slide please uh is that we want to have at least 120 000 US dollars to invest in a biogas plant so this biogas plant would ensure that we solve these three problems that I've mentioned previously so that's the budget and we are very excited that this pitch was chosen and it's something that excited the dragons would want to make sure that this dream is made in reality so whatever support we can get to have this road in two motion will be greatly appreciated thank you so much and I'm very excited to be choosing winner of the Dragonstein pitch thank you so much thank you very much um well with that we we look forward to next uh next session next year and I hand back over to Sam thanks so much and congratulations to the winner and and uh congratulations also to all the other contestants it took parts not easy to develop a pitch in three or four days and the ones that I saw were were were fantastic so I'm going to hand back over to Salim now who's going to introduce our panel and take us into the next stage thanks very much thank you very much Sam and Jesper for that excellent session and and Aditya as well it's my pleasure now to moderate a session with four very distinguished speakers from four different continents as it happens uh the first one is Mr. Andrew Jackson who's the deputy director of the foreign and commonwealth development office uh climate and environment department uh from the UK uh second we have Azul Schwartzman who is the youth fellow for the race to resilience uh who is from Argentina uh and then we have Ashmeeta Oja who's from Mercy Corps and she's from Nepal and last but not least Saranandudu who's with the Sam Dwellers International in Uganda so uh I'm going to ask each of them for uh opening uh comments to reflect a little bit about what they have heard coming out of the CBA 15 conference resonates with the work that they do in their own organizations and their countries and what are the messages they'd be like they'd be taking back to their own work in terms of uh mainstreaming it or incorporating it or sharing it with colleagues and taking it forward and I'll start with Andrew Jackson. Thank you very much Salim and uh thank you very much for the invitation uh to join this panel today and uh and then a greeting to distinguished colleagues and everybody listening it really has been inspiring listening to uh the interventions and some of the discussions that's been going on and we're clearly drawing on such a rich pool of ideas and and knowledge um I think really three things um for me um that the the presentations that we've heard have underlined um how important the whole adaptation space is and why it's so fundamental to um our preparations as incoming president for for COP26 this year um you've um you've you've shown how how drawing on local knowledge which we've understood um for a long time is really fundamental um to successful adaptation um how we can take this to another level by drawing on such a rich pool of experience and I think this is one of the most important things uh that I take away and if I underline three things and you heard some of this from Anne-Marie Trevelyn in her presentation in the preparation for the COP26 we've wanted to draw on the the role of states through the adaptation action coalition that was launched at the adaptation climate adaptation summit at the start of the year and we've made the the principles for locally led adaptation um one of the areas that we can focus on there um alongside the base to resilience um and one of the things that we will be doing in the coming weeks is having a series of regional conversations that digs deeper into uh into the things that you've been discussing um we've also seen how we need to make sure that um national planning um links up with the the national and the local level and this has been an area that we've been emphasizing um in the in the preparation for the COP26 as well um and uh and then when it comes to finance and the access to finance the access to finance task force that's been created after the climate and development ministerial meeting which we placed earlier this year again is an opportunity to look at new approaches to access including how we link those two national planning systems um you've also reinforced the the importance of the adaptation research alliance that was launched at the beginning of this year to really catalyze action-orientated research collaboration between universities and the church institutions that strengthens capacity building and all of these things together um I think will help achieve the goal that um Amri Trevely mentioned that we want to bring the stories of what works to the the COP26 so that we can be building on those um the second point um I think is to reinforce what we learned from things that we've already been doing and um a lot of people listening will be familiar with the braced program the building resilience and adaptation to climate extremes and disasters which was which was one of the programs that the UK supported that really helped um deepen the knowledge of what we can do through locally led adaptation it led for example to a model of county climate change funds um in Kenya um bringing finance down to a local level in Nepal um the Anakulam program putting farmers groups at the the center of decision making um and these things have also then fed into uh the life AR program that we're supporting at the moment the least developed countries initiative for effective adaptation and resilience um and I think that the the discussions that you've been having um helps us translate into practical actions through platforms like life AR which will have its own learning platform um it will be a global platform um with the goal of uh ensuring that at least 70 percent of finance supports local action by 2030 so these ideas feed into this um as well and then picking very briefly on wanting that inclusive approach the the emphasis on really hearing from youth from women um and um on that in the in the run up to the COP26 we have the COP26 civil society and youth advisory council um with Italy hosting the youth for climate events um the initiatives to support the UNFCCC's gender action plan I think what you're doing with the the locally led adaptation um is is demonstrating how we can really make those rich and meaningful um and bring together as wide a participation as possible the alongside I think the points that I've mentioned there the the nature campaign is a vehicle which helps us understand better the ecosystem based adaptation but also as was mentioned this morning how we draw on the best of indigenous knowledge and science-based knowledge in adaptation and these are all themes that we'll be really wanting to to take forward um I think it's fair to say as well one of the reasons that it's so helpful is that sometimes and and some of your your presenters picked up on this it's not easy to actually work out how to deliver this we recognize and we recognize for a long time the importance of the local leadership in in delivery and so by bringing together your participants the ideas that come from here um into the future discussions we're able to work together to see how we make that approach bringing together the different groups national level researchers businesses private sector and the local level um to deliver this this change on the ground so as amry travelling said um you're actually illustrating some really quite exciting opportunities that we want to to build on um I think the areas around innovation innovation um not just in terms of technologies early warning system things that we can use with innovations and ways of working um are really things that we can we can build on um I'll leave it there yes I hope we have a chance to come back to you again I will just uh see the question for the second round which is about the COP26 agenda on adaptation where we hope to discuss the agreement in the Paris agreement to set up a global goal on adaptation but we haven't done so yet uh you know what what are we thinking about that in particular how do we bring in local voices into establishing such a global goal is it just a top down affair or can we have a bottom up approach to a global goal as well so I leave you to think about that and come back to you I hope in a few minutes let me now move on to Azul Schwartzman who is from Argentina and is a a fellow of the youth fellow of the race to resilience Azul would you like to tell us a little bit more about what you do and then answer the question of what have you heard from the cda uh conference that you think will be useful to you going back to the work that you are doing Azul you have the floor thank you Salim thank you everyone for inviting us um as Salim was saying I am one of the youth fellows in resilience in the high-level champions team and I work alongside with another youth fellow in the youth engagement aspect of the race to resilience now back to what everything that's been said uh during the past hour and also during this week and hearing all about the work that has been done these past days um for me it becomes even more clear that we must embed resilience into recovery plans and make 2021 a year of action on climate resilience and mitigation uh we need to mobilize more resources towards locally led adaptation creating more collaborative spaces for actors who can build the resilience of vulnerable communities of climate change having said this I feel that most of what was brought here is very aligned with the work that we are doing in race to resilience for those of you who haven't heard about this campaign race to resilience is a global effort that puts people and nature at the center uh something that cba has certainly spotlighted during this week the ambition of the campaign is to build resilience and for billion people by 2030 but start acting today uh in the sense race to resilience has currently 21 initiatives whose programs operate in over 80 countries um in this sense the more we can demonstrate ambition from non-state actors and this is something that has been done in this past week and today the more we can raise the level of ambition and action from state actors then I would like to share a couple of thoughts that relate to some of the key messages that you've been working throughout the week specifically about my topic which is youth engagement during these past days from what I've heard today you've raised some very valid points for instance that while there are youth inclusion tracks in place to engage youth at cop itself and on the road to cop like it was just mentioned these mechanisms are still not adequate reaching and representing communities on the ground particularly the most vulnerable youth in the face of climate change another point you've also raised was that to be effective youth networks require funding and strong partnerships and young people must be involved in meaningful and equitable and high level decision making spaces rather than just being tokenistic additions or excluded from these spaces where real change and real decisions are being made let me say that I definitely agree with both points and this is a fight that we still need to give an international decision making as fears but luckily and to shed some hope there are some good prototypes of meaningful youth engagement and participation that are starting to arise for instance the fellowship which I am part of that the high level champions launched last year was born out of similar concerns today I am here engaging with you working directly with operationalizing race to resilience and gaming leadership skills while with the other youth fellows we're also starting to set the basis of the future of this program so what I'm trying to say is that there are some really good prototypes and some really good opportunities for youth to meaningful meaningfully engaged in decision making processes excellent also very good in fact let me let me cite an excellent example that I'm involved in I've been invited by the UN Secretary General to be the chair of one of the five action tracks of the UN Food Systems Summit which is going to take place in September and each of us in the the five chairs have a youth vice chair an official vice chair who is part of our overall decision making and leadership team and they play a very integral role in telling us what they want us to do and that's extremely important and I feel a very good innovation so we don't just consult with them we give them a position of power and decision making alongside the leaders in the system let me now move to Ashmeet Aujab from Nepal Mercy Corps Ashmeet tell us a little bit about what you do in Nepal and then what you've heard so far that you think would be useful for you to take back to your colleagues and the work that you are doing in Nepal and if I could ask you to be brief but we are running out of time thank you so much so hello everyone I'm Ashmeet Aujab from Mercy Corps Nepal and I work in the capacity of senior monitoring evaluation and knowledge management officer so first of all I would like to thank the organizer for this opportunity to speak in this forum I must say it was a great learning experience for me to be in CVA 15 all the sessions workshops peer-to-peer trainings and the other resources available in the order were very knowledgeable one of the reason I love this forum is that it gives the perspective from diverse people and a forum to share our experience along with connecting with connecting us with like-minded people and now moving on the reflection from last three days we all have been working in our certain geography and with certain intervention for the betterment of our community we always want to innovate and try new interventions to help community better adapt to changing climate and deal with disaster and this forum provide that exposure to multiple solutions from multiple countries and scenario so we can learn what we can do differently and how can we integrate that learning to our project and working areas there were discussions about the engagement of private sector which has been a challenging area for the community based adaptation the discussion need to be continued to pull this sector in CBA Mercy Corps has also standardization focusing on sharing our experience and engaging the private sector and we discussed that for this we need to show the private sector that while making money they can even contribute to make impact so that was awesome learning so one more thing to reflect is we have always considered the community as victim but it's time to break that stereotype the communities have tested and tried many different relevant many different things relevant to their context to overcome their problem we should respect that and support to bridge the complexity and challenges they may face on the verge of changing climate so that their actions are sustainable and community can move towards transformation finally I just wanted to thank CBA and all the good learnings from here and love the concept of mel and jc champion and being one of them was great for me to dip digger in session with mel focus I want to echo some work from one session that learning is only learning when it leads to change and I being a mel person want to say that we should focus on changing rather than success and failure let's learn to celebrate failure let's not talk about just meeting targets let's talk about creating impacts and that's all thank you very very wise words I love them thank you very much do we have Susan with us would you like to take the floor and tell us a little bit about yourself and what lessons you are taking back thank you very much I'm Sarah sorry Sarah Susan is the other Nandu they are two Nandu I confused unfortunately unfortunately we share one of the names with her please go ahead yeah thank you very much my name is Sarah Nandu I'm the national coordinator of the national stamp expedition of Uganda we are affiliated to slumber as international and our work is to mobilize communities in slums informal settlements create awareness of what their rights and their roles are their responsibilities community members but basically we use savings as a tool to mobilize communities because savings is a backbone of someone's life in a community who also in marginalized communities that are slums we don't want to do that we also collect information about ourselves so back to the questions that have been given to me they are questions that are related to the work we do and I'm very happy that I've been part of this conference a lot more has been said which adds up to what we do and majorly what I will pick out of fear is that the subject of adaptation I think the subject has been there before and we there is a gap that communities may have to maybe pull up their stop with the support from other partners what I've evidently learnt here is that there are innovations that communities have undertaken in relation to adaptation dynamic adaptation and resiliency however a lot is still lacking simply because I think communities are taken as the ending end users instead of being part of them so while you're an end user you do not have an information but you do as they do even you may not understand why you're doing it but yet you're doing the right thing but since you are not groomed in the information in the knowledge you do like what others do and this is a best practice that for us we actually acknowledge because our process we learn by doing since we do not have formal classes and reading of books and what we learn by doing so adaptation is a subject that we should put emphasis to support communities to be able to take it up to scale and not only supporting them but letting them be part and part of the process of how governments are learning to undertake some of these initiatives because in many instances community are left out they do not have a voice to speak about what is happening but yet in the end they are the ones that suffer the most so the subject needs to be taken to another level governments to undertake also go to understand a lot of things in relation to women actually many times we want to think that maybe women do not matter in the community as well as the youth but evidence are shown that these people are agents of change we are agents of change in our community like I mentioned through our savings groups we have been able to make even data collection in our settlements that have supported us even to unpack the effects of climate change issues I have shown in my presentation in one of the meetings where women have an innovation of collecting waste into wealth this is a very good innovation that women did and that means women and their youth if brought on board given a knowledge impacted information and support to transform their lives they're able to do it and imagine women through their savings are able to collect bottles recycle them sell them and get a living out of it one they have created a change in their lives by earning two they are changing their environment by cleaning the drainage channels through their cleaning their environment to be cleaned for a living so we need to support such innovations to be able to about effects of climate change another subject I have to go out with is the innovation collaboration and partnership we can't do it alone you can't do it in ISO we have to work in partnership we have to collaborate share information and knowledge for example communities want a lot of more information on how climate effects are happening in different countries so there is need for us to create a part from sharing information and knowledge and this can only be fostered if we have strong working partnership sometimes we talk about partnership but the partnership we are talking about a not tangible partnership they don't bring out tangible results so we need partnerships partnerships at local level partnership at a national level and partnership at international level and these have different roles they play to support different communities like I mentioned we need to share best practices like in other countries you find that people have come in I am very puzzled with the innovation from Zambia the one was just gotten an hour you can imagine there are lots of innovations that people can take up but we don't share information and no one knows what others do we need to make a platform to share information across the board so that we learn from one another and we transform the environment and I think that's all I can mention for now thank you very much great thank you very much Sarah for those excellent suggestions we have actually reached our time limit but I'm going to give Andrew the floor for a couple more minutes to perhaps reflect on what you just heard which is essentially that the people on the planet who are adapting to climate change as we speak actually know a lot about adaptation and how can the decision makers at the highest levels in the COP when they for example with us developing a global goal on adaptation actually acknowledge explicitly the knowledge that people on the ground have and bring that into such a global goal Andrew thank you yeah and really inspiring set of presentations from the other panel members a lot of ideas and exactly as you say a lot of knowledge and I think you've hit the nail on the head it's events like this where we're sharing the expertise bringing together people from right around the world and as you said at the start the technology is actually helping us to do that at the moment and just a couple of reflections I mean since the endorsement of the principles for locally led adaptation in January by the UK and others and the G7 from the development ministers actually welcome the principles as well you're already seeing a momentum behind that that's underlined this week it would be underlined further by the divisional meetings that I described and one feature of how we're wanting to prepare for the COP26 is precisely creating these spaces to listen and hear these ideas hear what's working and the same applies with the global goal on adaptation which is featuring in the divisional climate weeks being organized as opportunities to hear from countries hear from others about how we can come together and I think this very rich set of experiences these illustrations of how adaptation can work the practical solutions should actually give us confidence behind what we're trying to achieve there's a long way to go it's a really huge task solutions are in different different in different countries and different contexts but but hopefully we are achieving by sharing information in in meetings and events like this and that we determined as Anne Marie Trevelyne said we want to bring these good stories these good examples these fantastic participants to COP and to the discussions thank you thank you very much Andrew and do give our thanks to Anne Marie even though she wasn't able to join us for giving us the statement and we look forward to working with you and with her going forward so before I hand over to our colleagues in IID particularly Andrew Norton to conclude this session let me thank all the panelists for some excellent reflections on what we've been hearing about the conference itself actually it's been a wonderful event and as I said earlier being virtual has one virtue which is we can participate from all over the world without having to fly in to a country to participate which you used to have to do before perhaps we'll go back to those times again but at least for now we can meet across the globe let me now hand over to Andrew Norton the director of IID first apologies for overrunning my time I it wasn't too bad and also thank you Andy for continuing to do the CBA series conference series you know I started them many years ago when I was with you in IID when I left IID to move to Bangladesh I wasn't quite sure whether you would continue them I'm very glad to see that you have and I hope that you've made you feel you've made the right decision thank you and over to well thanks so much Salim and really I'm not going to attempt to summarize it's been such a rich and diverse week with so many incredible perspectives and also such a great closing event as well so I have the the huge task along with our indepatiable lead organizer for CBA15 Sam Green who I'll hand over to you to finish of saying thank you to everyone and of course we won't be able to name check everyone but just some of the things that have made it such a good week so let me kick off in fact with huge thanks to our two co-hosts for today Aditya Bahadur and Salim it's always special to have you with us Salim as you say all this started with you when you were with IID and it's a real privilege always to be able to learn from your incredible experience thank you so much also huge thanks to the theme leads who shaped much of what you heard through the week and who you heard from in Aditya's brilliant hard talk session at the top I'm not going to go through all the names because it's just going to take too long but huge thanks also to all the speakers both in this session and throughout the CBA week and particularly to the session hosts who put in a lot of work behind the scenes to create challenging and engaging sessions so huge thanks to all of you let me move now to the talking about the institutions kick off massive thanks to the funding partners climate justice resilience fund Irish aid and a little bit from my own organization IID obviously we couldn't do this without you so huge thanks as well for your contributions massively appreciated I also want to thank our co-hosts for organizations that are always really great to work with and it's been a privilege to work with you on CBA 15 the global resilience partnership care international practical action and Salim's organization the International Center for Climate Change and Development ICAB based in Dhaka Bangladesh let me thank also the contributing partners the Green Africa Youth Organization BRAC Huaru Commission IUCN Netherlands the African Center for Trading Development GIZ and VSO again huge thanks to you and a special word for sponsoring partners Engen who helped a lot to ensure that we got a wide representation of people able to participate and attend the conference now let me move to the people who did all the hard work behind the scenes the programming team a lot of them you've already heard from so I won't repeat that but it's worth including some names who weren't in this session Umet Tania Sultana Dr Rabani Golam Chris Henderson Jan Willem Denbeston Jules van Koppen Tapas Chakraborty Joshua Apponsen and Jennifer Khadim huge thanks to you for all your work and the final words of thanks from me before I hand on to Sam to complete the thank yous to everybody who who we can mention indeed in the restricted time but particular thanks to the organizing team who've put in heroic work to make this CBA so rich diverse and successful Teresa Saraka the CBA program manager special thanks to you Terrence for all your brilliant work Amy Gibson the event manager we had Amy with us in person at a couple of CBAs it's great to have you back Amy at this one to Maya say Manova and to Martin Cummings to colleagues of mine from IAD and I think that's all from me so huge thanks it was brilliant to be part of this and let me hand over now to Sam Green brilliant thanks Andy and thanks to everyone that's helped to put all of this together I also just want to extend a couple of extra thank yous to Think Active Labs who have created the platform on which you've experienced CBA over the last week they've created it especially for us and it looks fantastic the gender and male champions you step forward pretty much just a week's notice and have really organized themselves and spread themselves out across lots of different sessions to to report back thank you so much for for stepping up so I just want to close by sharing a couple of great opportunities that are available to CBA participants in the chat you'll actually see a link to apply for a catalytic grant which you might remember I mentioned in the opening plenary so maybe you were at CBA and you had a new idea and you thought I wish I had the time and space to develop that maybe you were talking to somebody you haven't spoken to before well now there is funding available from GRP and with the support of ICAD to deliver that you can click on the link you can see in the chat and we can also share that by email to all the all the participants and there's your opportunity to take an idea and take it forward so please please use this opportunity the deadline closes in a couple of weeks the other thing I want to share anybody who is at CBA 13 you might remember there was a film called thank you for the rain and it's a fantastic film I remember we watched it in Ethiopia and half of the room left the room in tears now that film is available to watch for CBA participants so do check the email that comes out we'll be sharing an access code so that you can get on to the platform and watch that film for free it is fantastic it's a really really interesting watch about the experience of climate hazards and I absolutely recommend it so please do check your email and one final thing is that you can help us to make CBA 15 even better and CBA 16 and CBA is beyond and it's really simple way to help us to do that which is to share your feedback in the feedback survey so if you check your emails you would be you will be able to answer some questions give us the feedback tell us what you think CBA should be doing more of or less of that survey will take less than 10 minutes but it's absolutely essential for us to work out how we go forward into the next year how we can include you all and how we can continue to make CBA as good as it can possibly be and a platform and a voice for practitioners in the future so with that I want to thank everybody who has participated especially also session hosts who have come forward collaborated with others sometimes when they didn't expect to to create a really amazing set of sessions and I really hope that I get the opportunity to see you over the course of the year and see you again in CBAs in the future so thank you very much everybody and I hope to see you again soon