 I work with Christian Aid in Malawi and we're head of programs for enhancing community resilience projects. My first CBA was CBA 5 and since then my focus on adaptation has changed. CBA has helped me to focus on community adaptation at household level so somehow it coincided with the proposal development to defy denowage and embassy and and I reshate and my input into that project was really emphasizing on how every effort would contribute and benefit a household in terms of adaptation. Good morning, my name is Stephen Nakusoto. I come from Masai Mara, which is in Laroa County. Together with Salaton, the teaching we work in an organization called Medume. We came to this conference and we want to thank the conference organizers for giving us the opportunity. When we arrived here we met so many people from other countries. Our biggest lesson is that we are able to now understand that the challenges that are facing our community are not broken. We have so many, we met so many communities, so many groups in this conference who come from all corners of the world, who are talking about the same thing as we are talking. Now we know the impacts of climate change. The climate change is a global issue and that we are able to talk together. We learn from each other things that are affecting other people in other areas in the world and we learn so many strategies that other people are using in those in their own areas. Some of these things are very good for us so when we go back to our communities we shall be able to share a lot of this information. So we have a message for everyone that as we continue to use science and technology and education to find solutions for world problems we must not forget our cultures. Hello my name is Pablo Suarez I'm associate director for research and innovation at the Red Cross represent climate center and I'm happy to report that I've been to every single CBA with the exception of the one in Tanzania so I've been to eight out of nine. The first one in Bangladesh happened when I was a full-time researcher on climate and disasters. I was looking for people who investigated climate and disasters but who cared about people and I found it at the community-based adaptation event ten years ago and that was one of the things a very important event for me because it made me say you know what I need to start working with people and for people. That was the time when I decided to no longer be full-time researcher and I became what I am now which is a humanitarian worker. One of the things I really love about CBA and its evolution over time from the first one a decade ago to the one now let me say four things. First one only event dealing with climate and adaptation that takes participants to spend half of the conference time to the field to the places where people are actually suffering and actually trying to adapt. That's not happening elsewhere. Second thing is that this event allocates plans to allocate time to take risks to do things that are out of the box. The sessions out of the box have become a tradition for CBA. The third thing is the infusion of games. We as Climate Center have been developing some ideas for participatory games. CBA gave us the space to try to polish to experiment to innovate. A fourth thing I want to say is that there is a phenomenal candidness from the organizers. We saw Mr. Salim, Mr. Organizer tweet when he was a panelist saying this panel is only males and we need more gender balance in these events. That's the organizer. How much do you see of candid reflection? I celebrate CBA. I want to continue to be part of these. I'm a named Shawn Martin. I work for World Wildlife Fund in the United States and this is my first CBA conference. I came here because I was invited to talk to the audience about ecosystem-based adaptation, which I've done a number of times for many different audiences, usually with conservation groups, not so much development or humanitarian organizations. What I'm taking away from this conference is that even though I expected there would be differences in perspective between a development audience and a conservation audience that I normally work with, I didn't realize how profoundly different they were. In my work with conservation organizations, I'm trying to inject the people aspect into our work almost all the time. Here, I found myself trying to inject the environment into the development work. What I learned is I really need to think harder about my audience even though I was anticipating a lot of these issues. I need to think harder about my audience and anticipate what their reactions might be and be better prepared for them to respond. Hi, I'm Penny Urquhart. I work independently on adaptation to climate change at the policy and strategic level. I was also one of the IPCC authors for the Fifth Assessment Report working on the Africa chapter. I think this is my fourth CBA conference. I found it very interesting to see the developments of the conferences as they go from year to year and the increasing sort of detail and sophistication in the debate, which is great to see. Because a lot of my work is at the policy and strategic level, it's really incredibly valuable for me to continue to get in touch with the reality on the ground. And the CBA conference has really provided the opportunity to do that because it's a great efficient way to meet and interact with lots of people working on the ground from all of the areas of the world. So it's really, really valuable to see how people are breaking with the issues that would otherwise remain as statements on a piece of paper. You know, you're now getting a real sense of the reality of fixing people in different regions. I'm Ari Kumare. I'm Program Officer for Climate Change Adaptation. I work for the Norwegian Church in Zambia. We support partners who are implementing climate change adaptation in various communities in Zambia. This is my second CBA conference that I'm attending. I attended the CBA 5 conference in Bangladesh. And the CBA conferences have been informative. They have been helpful in being able to build my capacity to be able to to assist program management of the projects that my partners are implementing in the various communities. The CBAs are informative and the information that we get from the CBAs has helped us in many ways in being able to be able to contribute to the reduction of vulnerabilities of the communities in our countries where we operate from. Thank you. I'm Voseta Vijay Naik and I work as the Policy and Advocacy Coordinator for Climate Action Network South Asia. I'm here at the CBA with one of the programs we have called Southern Voices for which I'm the Regional Facilitator. From CBA, what will I take back? I will take all the knowledge that I gathered on how adaptation is done on the ground and how communities are involved in deciding and making decisions on how adaptation needs to be done and how culture and vulnerable groups are incorporated into the process as well. So it will help us with our joint principles on adaptation, which will be based on how adaptation practices and plans and policies need to be participatory and inclusive. So the knowledge I gathered here would help me in making better decisions as to what work we need to do in different countries. Thank you. I'm Chris Henderson. I work for Practical Action. I'm the Agriculture Policy Advisor based in UK. This is my second CBA. It's reaffirmed my view that actually it's a really valuable process. It's about sharing what works, but also what doesn't. And I think it's really good to talk to fellow practitioners about the challenges we face. In agriculture, adaptation is essential. So we're going to have successful community based adaptation. We need agricultural adaptation too. I think many people perceive climate smart agriculture. I mean, this is people perhaps outside the CBA community, but they perceive climate smart agriculture as the vehicle or delivery mechanism for getting that adaptation in agriculture. However, it's a pretty controversial and confused process. Our view is it needs to be much better defined if it's to be relevant to community based adaptation, to marginalised and smaller farmers. We see through our work that agroecology and agroecological approaches need to be purist about this. It's a powerful tool for adaptation. We in Practical Action think that it's an opportunity for justice or technology justice in agriculture. Thank you. My name is Mum Portula. I come from the SOTO from Royal Self-Help Development Association, RSDA. This is my first time attending the CBA conference. And what I'm taking away in our context to the SOTO context is that if CBA is done well and EBA is done well, it might be to the communities almost. One thing and I have enjoyed going to the field. I have already made contacts. So we'll keep on communicating with the people we met in the field. And also here we have made their very in the conference. We have made very good contacts and we'll keep on communicating and exchanging the experience. And in short, it has been like wonderful because it is a conference which have accommodated everyone. Hi, my name is Nawam Nans. I was supported to come to CBA 9 by the Southern Voices for Adaptation Program. The Southern Voices Program has been promoting the joint principles of adaptation, which is something my organization, Janata Akshan from Sri Lanka, has been keen to promote in our national adaptation process. So for me, community adaptation provides an interesting window into something very different from what we are focusing on, which is national adaptation. Adaptation at a national level, at a macro level. And coming here and looking at amazing discussions and the views and feedback on community adaptation, that very micro level adaptation has been highly enlightening to us because all this time we've been focusing on creating an overarching framework for adaptation and this conference seemed to reinforce the need for focusing on the community level requirements, priorities and interests in adaptation. Hi, my name is Tim Forsyth. I'm at the London School of Economics and Political Science. This is the second international conference on community-based adaptation that I have been to. I was at the one in Dhaka in 2009 and I'm now at the one in Kenya. I am interested in CBA because it's one other arena where international development and local concerns can be mixed with global environmental policy. And the key agenda of CBA is to try and increase the representation of local needs and vulnerabilities. That's why I'm interested in it. However, I'm not just interested in CBA as a concept in itself. I'm interested in CBA as an example of how government and international expert bodies can connect with people living in villages and mix the knowledge from global climate models as well as local livelihoods needs. So all of CBA work is a very good example of how to mix local development with global environmental policy. Good morning. My name is Salaton Lulintuju. I came from the Narok County. We have a CBO called Meduni Community Conservation. And that we are glad that we started and we are moving forward because of the support of the community. They see that we are doing good and they love it. We came here to this global warming conference, the CBA. It is actually, it is a new learning from us of which we meet with different people from different countries. And that we knew that, yes, we are doing actually what we supposed to do to the world. And we appreciate that for the conference and for the organizations in Cariboula. My name is Ana Coulombe. I'm a research manager at BBC Media Action. We work across different themes, governance, health, and one of them very important for us is resilience. We always say that audiences are at the heart of what we do and we do mean it because we do a lot of research always before starting any project. So attending this conference has been very important. I've learned a lot, something that I'm going to incorporate and take back to my colleagues as well. And it's also been very useful to understand what other organizations are doing and the challenges they are facing. Because as communicators, we always try and bring together these different stakeholders. And we try and make these linkages that we're discussing so much in the conferences, between government, between communities. The other outcome has been making lots of useful contacts that we can use to benefit each other. We can support other partners to use communications and we can understand from the partners with other challenges as well. So it's been great. It's been great and I hope we can come back again next year. I'm Nambi from the WRI World Resources Institute. I'm the strategy head for the Varnabhutian Adaptation Initiative. I've been, this is my 9th HCBA. I've been attending ever since it is instituted. I've only missed one CBA. This has been a great learning experience for me, particularly understanding the people's perspective. What is the use of science or any activity that is not useful to the society. So that particular element of it comes out very clear in every thematic representation of what we have in CBA conferences. And it's a great opportunity to learn and exchange knowledge that they have benefited a lot. I've experimented some of the innovative ideas which have come out of this conferences. Try to implement them in some sense and try to kind of modify certain already applied methodologies which have been proven and experimented with. So in that sense you know and also it's a great networking opportunity. I'm for Nature Charlotte Angels. I work with an environmental consulting firm in Cameroon. Same services, consultants and intermediaries in mining energy and the environment. But into climate change I'm interested as a researcher. I've carried out a research in Cameroon coastal environment, the coastal communities. And I would say this is my first time attending the CBA. And it's been so inspiring. And as a challenge back home, I will present network for community-based adaptation and a huge network on community-based adaptation to be in contact with the CBA network. And the program will be published. We'll make it published on the CBA website. So and we'll need some mentorship because it's going to be a new project and then contributions from a general public. There's going to be a national base program. Good morning Patrick Kirkvie. I'm a PhD researcher from the University of Tasmania in Australia. And this is my second CBA conference. I'm as part of my doctoral research program, I'm investigating the role of culture in community-based adaptation. And this the CBA conference has been a really good way to connect with others working in this field from a really broad and different perspectives and a huge amount of kind of practical experience and wisdom from from practice and engaging with local communities. So in my research I'm interested in what is the role and significance of culture and what even does it mean to be culturally engaged in the context of this practice of community-based adaptation. And I'm really trying to connect with others in the field because what I'm trying to do in kind of my capstone publication is look at how we can provide practical guidance for CBA practitioners around how they can achieve a practice that's culturally sensitive and culturally engaged and how can we address that. So I've been conducting interviews with a number of people here at CBA and sitting on a panel session this afternoon about Indigenous knowledge, culture and adaptation. So really looking forward to the opportunity to connect with with lots of other people working on CBA and explore how we can achieve cultural engagement in practice with CBA. Thank you. Hi my name is Tania Guillem. I'm from Nicaragua and I'm here in the CBA on behalf of the SUSEWATCH Network and the Southern Voices Program. This is actually my second time in the CBA. I took part of it last year in Kathmandu and now I'm here in Nairobi for my second CBA together with other partners of the Southern Voices Program. And I would like the CBA to give me more tools to work in the community level but also taking our policies to other levels like regional and national level how we can make our governments to adapt, to make some advocacy that they see that our region needs to adapt and to plan for the short, medium and long term also. My name is Paul Healy. I'm the country director for THROKRA here in Kenya. We're an Irish NGO working in 17 to 20 countries worldwide and I'm happy to head of the Kenya office here. It's my first time to CBA. I'm really pleased to be here to meet some incredible people doing some incredible work with some really amazing ideas. I'm certainly bringing some wow ideas back on M&E to my office and to my organization. I would have liked to see gender more at the center of things as it's a priority for us. Looking to see how we do community based adaptation with a greater focus on women's experiences so that's something I'm going to be thinking of. I think the finance issue is something really big but lovely to meet the networks, to meet people passionate and committed to communities committed to community perceptions of what is important listening to those communities so it's a real privilege to be here and I'm even looking forward to the next one. So thank you very much. Hello, I'm Veena Nath Mandari. I work for Practical Action in Nepal and I have been working in this organization for the last 10 years and I look after climate change, adaptation and disaster risk reduction I have been participating in CBA conferences since its second conference. Over the period of these conferences we have covered 30 months themes and there have been ups and downs in participation. We have observed different participants interested in different themes. Last year in Kathmandu we had donor participants because it was a matter of finance. This year I can see a lot of participants from a practitioner point of view because we have a monitoring theme here so the discussions are leading with the themes and we have got a lot of improvements in our participation as well like now themes and the systems are pretty much efficient in discussions and there is diversity as well. It has helped my work and built on my confidence on what I have been working on the ground. Yes, my name is Monika. I'm a project called Partners for Resilience Climate Group Disaster Risk Reduction It's funded by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands, Kurukea Netherlands It's an alliance project with the Global Partners being Wetlands International Climate Center K-International Catholic Organization for Live and Development Aid. This is my very first time in CBA and I have learnt a lot and I was very interested in discussions surrounding ecosystem management and restoration in community based adaptation and also the indigenous knowledge how we track indigenous knowledge and how indigenous knowledge plays a key role in community based adaptation was very interesting to me. What I'm taking back home is we have made networks we've got into friendship with many other people who are coming from different countries working with different agencies and it was interesting to share ideas with them and also to share a poster we came along with a poster from Uganda and interestingly our poster was the best in this CBA 9 so we are very very proud we are very energised and we are going home with lots of news lots of information to share with the colleagues and to see how other people can also take interest and participate in the CBAs and also take message back and we increase the coalition for adaptation at community level that's what I can say