 Good morning It's an honor for me being here representing IDD America Latina. That is an NGO based in Buenos Aires, Argentina in Latin America And I'm going to present a project. We are working in Two countries in Argentina and Uruguay. We are the project is Analyzing the impact of climate change in coastal areas in the Rio de la Plata River We are working in four cities, two cities in Uruguay and two cities in Argentina and these four cities are suffering floods floods Recently the month ago 50 people died in the The last flood in Buenos Aires nearby Buenos Aires We are the project is founded by IDOC and we are working with a Methodical approach of the participatory approach we work with the social actors the institutional actors researchers and Technicians all together to understand the local knowledge in each one of these places cities where we work and the main objective of the projects if to Constructs together guidelines for adaptation in each one of the cities We have until now we have worked at the municipal level Preparing trying to identify the areas at risk risk in the city here. We use different Multicriteria analysis we work with hydrological mapping with Vulnerability socio-economic vulnerability mapping a urban analysis and well this Index that allowed us to identify the areas as risk in each one of the city and Evaluate economically the damage that the cities are suffering without climate change and with clown climate change We also work at the community level Trying to identify what's the risk perception in these communities and what are the spontaneous adaptation practices that they are taking on to And or to Evitar avoid that in their houses So instead we are working with different scaled of cities the cities in Uruguay as small cities and Well, it's it's that it's more easy to work in touch with local authorities and but there are cities with Non autonomy from the higher government levels and in Buenos Aires We have bigger cities with the difficult to work with in some moments with the local governments But more autonomous from the national governments and Instead we have we are working with countries that are in different stage of Undergoing an institutional redesign of their structures and laws and And norms to work with climate change adaptation, you know, Uruguay has Is in advance from Argentina. They are working in participatory Assessments with citizens in In plans in different cities and Argentina is just now starting to to work on that but in the city of that we See through the projects and in our experience through in these four cities that they There are the same institutional barriers that we see that can be opportunities to take for community-based adaptation one of the first institutional barrier is that climate change and Disaster risk is still seen as a responsibility of the environmental offices and At the same moment the other offices house and infrastructure and others are increasing vulnerability and risk in many of the cities and There are also norms and plans in the leaf in the different levels that are not regarding a climate change adaptation In in the local government does again There's not an integrating Integrate local development planning does lack of technical capacity and lack of financial resource Assigned to deal with disaster risk They have still a traditional emergency response approach in these local governments So we see that these are opportunities to link Between urban infrastructure on emergency management and housing another and different stakeholders playing different roles through this project and The other thing we see is that there's a difficult to learn from old failures. We have Old land use regulations old urban plans and old poverty reduction policies So only one example the land Law the regulation of the use of land in Buenos Aires. It has 50 years old So it was created for a city that is we need to expand now We are working in a city. We are living in a city that we need to control the expansion and we have the same laws no, and we are Living like that. So risk are increasing because of that and and Well, again, it's a new opportunity to to renew this law from a community-based approach an integrated approach The other thing we we see is the tension between different information and scientific information and what the local government needs to manage and to create programs and policy does not You know The the forecast the meteorological information is not Created to prevent a risk of floods in these cities. They are old protocols to communicate the meteoric Information and so we have to change this also and this is important an important barrier Not only of the information but also for the institutions that generate that information We have to work there and we also think that community is the way to to demand this change And the special thing we we we see Is that and and Where we see that community Organizations and NGOs that are working in environmental issues can Move or drive the change is that the local governments are Prussia but in this case by real-estate markets. They don't want to get no land that is going to get in And the flood in the next year and they They they have pressure from the land market and they have pressure from the unsolved needs in each of the of the cities so most of the information is cannot be known and in that way we cannot build safe cities so We think that it's important to support community organizations and use that are working in these issues to move Governments to change their approach For thinking cities. Thank you