 Okay, welcome everybody. Thank you for joining the second Asia Pacific regional dialogue on scaling up locally led adaptation. My name is Orgo Senoroy and I work with the Asian Development Bank and very happy to moderate today's discussion. This dialogue is a part of series of six dialogues being organized across Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean region on the same team around scaling up local adaptation. The Asia Pacific dialogue in particularly is, you know, supported by the International Center for Climate Change and Development International Institute for Environment and Development World Resources Institute and Save the Children Australia. Some of you might have already attended the first dialogue which was organized on 7th of September last month, where we really heard about some great examples from Asia Pacific region on delivery mechanisms in support of local adaptation. With examples from national governments of national governments and civil society organizations on how some of the delivery mechanisms are very effectively helping us scale up adaptation solutions at the local level. Today we really want to take the discussion forward. We want to discuss about the pathways for achieving local adaptation. Specifically, we would like to identify what are some of the enablers or factors that can facilitate local adaptation at scale. We would like to understand what role the climate, international climate finance can play in support of such pathways. You would also like to hear from you, what are your biggest ask from upcoming COP26 in Glasgow. And last but not the least to also identify some key follow up actions that can be taken forward post COP in 2022 to really build a momentum and convert these dialogue in the real actions. The agenda for today's dialogue is structured around four main key segments. We will start with an introduction and key notes and we're delighted to have with us Sheila Patel, the director and founder of the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Center with us. This will be followed by a discussion session on presentation where we will hear a quick recap about the past at the first dialogue and discussion on pathways for achieving local adaptation. The main heart of today's discussion is the breakout group where we will divide ourselves into six to eight groups to discuss some of the key enablers, the changes required and asked for COP26. And lastly, we will try to synthesize the discussions coming from the group group discussion and see identify some of the concrete actions to take forward. We encourage all of you to please introduce yourself in the chat box, write your name organizations and the topics you're working on, which will help us in this discussion. So without further ado, let me introduce, let me invite Sheila Patel to kindly deliver her keynote address Sheila, of course yours. Thank you. Thank you. Hello everybody and good morning I hope all of you have your cup of coffee with you or tea. I, I feel very honored as a grassroots activist to be here today to speak about the challenges of ensuring that vulnerable communities, people in difficult situations. There are many betters like government institutions and global agencies all work together to take the challenge of local adaptation forward. The reality is that we don't have to wait for what climate change can do in our lives, it's there. It's too much or too little of something or the other. This pandemic and all the challenges it has brought has really demonstrated how things we don't anticipate completely take over our lives. So, today, my general feeling is that all of us as individuals doing whatever we are doing. Especially those who have a deep commitment to social justice for ensuring that governance systems work that we have accountability is at all levels. We have to push forward to make sure that all the work that has gone in bringing adaptation, especially locally led adaptation. So shoulder to shoulder with the transformation we require in the climate change arena. So my, my points for discussion today are the following. First of all, I feel that we all have to examine the difference between the aspiration for modernity which a lot of us in Asia have. We all want to do things which are modern, which are transformative, but we all know that most of that is based on expanding GDP on expanding. It's all based on on carbon growth. So if you want to move into something that is sustainable, that is socially just, that is equitable. There's a huge transition that needs to take place. And we all have to be part of that transition and therefore in today's discussion. We have to look at what are our asks for ourselves, and what are our asks for everybody at different levels, but we cannot just expect global discourse to be the only resolvers of local problems we have to take charge of that. Another thing that I believe is critical is that adaptation is clearly a local business. It's a local ask, and it's something that has to be done locally. And we have the right to demand changes at all levels. It also requires all of us who are operating, organizing, working locally to not feel shy about expressing what our own role should be, and what everybody else's role should be. And I think one of the biggest challenges in local adaptation space is our role and contribution in exploring partnerships with state, private sector, and even some citizen led actions, which have been exclusionary, which have involved us in the dialogue which have told us what to do. And it requires a change in the mindset, not only of others, but also ourselves. And therefore, we need to be able to take conversations that mean a lot to us to different levels is I think very important. Some of us in Asia are constantly told that we face either too much of something or too little too much he too little too much water no water. And I think that local adaptation is the real space in which the nuances of how this has to be addressed has to emerge, and it has to be mainstream. I think that there are different roles that different people play, and I hope that in our discussion today, we are able to map those. Finally, I'm hearing too much or too little of either asks of global finance too much, we need more global finance, but we say the global finance is not being used. It doesn't come to communities, it doesn't come to localities. But I think that in reality, the role of global finance is to trigger change, and to make sure that that change is socially just. And I think that the commitment that many of us have made to the locally led adaptation principles and practice not only in the case of financing but also actions, just transform the relationship that all of us have with each other. We really like that concept and those principles to be very deeply entrenched in our activities, our actions, our asks, and our financing models. I have so many crossovers in the conversations like this that are happening with Africa and in Latin America. And I feel that by just having us work in Asia and not looking at what's happening in Africa or Latin America reduces our ability to explore choices or actions, and other successes that other areas have and I hope that all of us will have the opportunity to explore that as well. Everybody talks about the youth dividend, but I think it's going to be a huge challenge to transform this dividend into actual reality. Because in certain circumstances, whether youth, especially youth that are vulnerable youth that are locked into intergenerational poverty to make choices that are constructive and that work for them in the future and in Asia. That's a big challenge. I know that in South Asia, it's really huge challenge that we have to accept. Finally, you know, whenever we talk about actions, we talk about engagement, we talk about discussions. The words that keep coming out are accountability, risk management, and inability to communicate, and a deep despair about the huge chasm between different constituencies. And those of us who are involved in facilitating these dialogues, we are deeply encouraged by the excitement and the commitment and the long term engagement that more and more constituencies are making to making this decade a decade of action. But I hope that at the end of this discussion, we not only come out with our asks, but we also come out with a list of actions that we will collectively make as a community that cares about change that works for everybody. So thank you for being here today. And I look forward for this process to continue. Thank you. Back to you. Thank you Sheila so much for your very powerful messages. And I take some key highlights from here. The first is to the need to take charge, demand for space for local adaptation actions. I'm sure that global finance is really used to trigger changes that are socially equitable. And last but not least to collectively identify actions that different constituencies can take up themselves, but also together. And of course, if all of this key issue about partnership of social pretty about cross fertilization of ideas across regions is absolutely critical. And this is fantastic because it kind of set the scene for us for today's dialogue, and keep in mind ultimately we're looking for really concrete actions moving forward so thank you Sheila for so much for that. So moving forward, I will now request an excellency Robert Dixon High Commissioner for Bangladesh. Of course, you can Bangladesh to kindly provide us welcome remarks. Thank you very much indeed thank you for welcoming me and it's a great pleasure and privilege to be helping to launch this dialogue this morning. Bangladesh is it probably in the almost more than any other countries in the forefront of climate change. And I've been very conscious of that in the two and a half years that I've been here as high commissioner, and increasingly as we see globally, the effect that climate related disasters and unpredictable weather events are having a very profound effect, both on everyday lives, but also in ecosystems and economies. Nowhere is that more the case than in Bangladesh where every day. We see both dramatic disasters but we also see the steady erosion of river banks and we see communities often have marginalized people who are having to take very practical measures to to move themselves from the forefront. As they're the communities literally crumble around them. So this is a huge issue for Bangladesh and as you might expect it's a very major part of the partnership that we as the UK have with Bangladesh. And we can learn from this country because Bangladesh has been in many ways as as in so many other ways Bangladesh as it celebrates its 50th anniversary has remarkable successes to record in climate adaptation. And I think just to take one really dramatic example, one of the founding events in the history of Bangladesh was the terrible cyclone in 1970, which killed up to a million people nobody really knows but that caused terrible human loss, a violent cyclone came through the region last year and killed 12 people. So that is a remarkable example of how the very systematic approach that successive governments of Bangladesh have taken to handling the problem of extreme weather has achieved remarkable results. And I think there's a lot that we can learn from Bangladesh, when we look at this, including the success that Bangladesh has had in reflecting government policy at community level. And that is the key in a densely packed Delta, most of it at sea level to achieve in results it's joining up national policy with local leadership and with the engagement of local people that has been in this country, a remarkable success. And we as an international community I think we should do more to try and help drive not just the policy, the sort of things that will be discussed in the conference center in Glasgow the beginning of next month, but also effective adaptation on the ground. And as I said, I do think there's a tremendous amount that we can learn from the government to which I am currently accredited and it's obviously a critical part of what we as a presidency are seeking to catalyze as we go through COP 26 into the African presidency of COP 27 and beyond. It's very important that we demonstrate, as I said, all the way through we have a holistic approach which drives government policy and principles in a way that really makes a practical difference to marginalised people on the ground who are in the end the most effective agents of change. We've been very strong supporters of the LDC initiative for effective adaptation of resilience, the program that we are part of today. And we are absolutely going to be ensuring that this, what this group has been doing is reflected in the adaptations brand, which will be such a prominent part of what we do at COP 26. And it's great that we've been able, as we, as you were just saying, Sheila Patel, bringing together approaches from across different regions that mutual learning is tremendously important as we shape the thinking for a global effect for a global event like the one that we will be hosting next month in Glasgow. So thank you very much to everyone for convening today. Thank you very much, Mr Roy for your role in convening. I think this is going to be tremendously useful discussion I'm very pleased to play a small part in declaring it open. So I hope you have a very productive series of discussions I unfortunately have to go and see the environment minister and the energy minister. And some last minute COP negotiating business right now so I won't be able to join the discussions but I'm delighted they're happening. And thank you very much for your part in in making them happen. Thank you. Thank you so much Mr Dixon for your kind words but also actually helping us recognize that this much to learn from the region and the countries in the region lots has happened specifically looking at the long term commitments of some of the governments looking at the holistic approach where a whole of society approach been taken by governments in partnership with local communities to build resilience. And last but not the least to see how these commitments are converted into effective actions on the ground and be very much like to thank you and government of UK for really leading this work on local adaptation and of course your support for life AR initiative, which is quite a pioneering initiative in the region itself so thank you for that. So this was a very excellent opening session. Before we dive into the session looking at two presentations, it might be a good time for us to engage in a warming exercise so we would do what we call a chat shower, where we will ask two questions. We request all of you to type very brief responses in the chat bar, but don't hit the send button yet we will hit it together so that we get a shower of insights from all of you on these questions. So, let's start with the first question which is shown in the slide now. What is the change you would like to see to scale up locally led adaptation. We will briefly type your responses that don't send it yet, we will send it all together. So what is the change we would like to see to scale up locally led adaptation. Okay, please send your reply now hit the send button. Great. Oh, it's difficult for me to follow something. I'm just starting out changes in policymakers mindset resources by government and financial institutions to community and grassroots groups recognizing their innovations. National governments committing to local adaptation in their climate strategies. Climate finance, more decentralized finance that incentivizes local interventions fantastic. Government institutions partnership with local communities, which is also highlighted by Sheila in our opening remarks, recognizing an adequate financing changing mindset space for the poor people. These are important community engaged science led initiatives. Wow that's a quite a bit of list so we have got over your increased access to finance for local communities. So, there are lots to work on the chain side. That's very good. Thank you everybody. Maybe we will move on to the next question now, which is, what is your biggest hope for locally led adaptation at the upcoming cop 26. Please type a brief response that don't send it yet. Okay, let's go ahead with the second response you can hit the send button now. Leaders listening to and responding. Cop 26 finds a solution to address loss and damage, get commitment for long term funding. That's extremely important. A clear message emerges about his effectiveness. We make the year 2022 as a year to start actions on the ground to report. Fantastic prioritize and find solutions and show food security for the affected people, very critical, long term funding again so more emphasis for or focus given to adaptation can't agree more on that. We need global climate finance to support actions by local communities women youth. So clearly there are some common messages coming from two questions. One was about in terms of the, you know what changes are needed, we need more actions from national governments we need the space for the poor people to participate in these changes we need global climate finance. We need collaborations and partnerships, and in terms of the biggest hope from cop 26 commitment for long term funding is absolutely critical funding that is going to the local level. More emphasis but adaptation is required. Increase climate finance contributions from GCF and other climate funds and the importance of coalition that's great fantastic thank you so much everybody that was very very useful. So that brings us to the end of the first segment the opening segments now we will go into two presentations with the first one I'll invite Sir Anjana Gupta advisor or community resilience for the wire commission to introduce the eight principles of local adaptation and also give us a quick recap of what happened in the first dialogue in September, Sir Anjan on the floor is yours. Good morning everybody, and welcome to the second dialogue. It's my job today to remind you and set a bit of context for the second round of dialogues. I'll start off simply by saying that the first set of dialogues that was held in the three regions focused on the locally led adaptation principles, primarily. As a set of normative principles these this was a framework of concepts to guide our actions this time we're looking more at the principles from a cons for from an operational side, what does it take to put the principles into action, and do we actually recognize locally driven adaptation, when we see it on the ground. So, let's start with the first slide there you can see that the goal of this project led by ID and WRI is really to look at how do we scale up both state and non state led locally led adaptation, and how do we develop and understand the pathways through which mechanisms for locally led adaptation can evolve. Go to the next slide you can see there that 100 examples over 100 examples of locally led adaptation delivery mechanisms, ways in which financing for locally driven action are reaching the ground have been crowdsourced by ID. And there you can see that some of these were featured, the ones in green were featured in the first round of dialogues this. There's some case studies under development already and then there's a third set which are being sort of investigated and looked at currently, and we hope that you will share more examples of that you know off in the discussion coming up. Let's go to the next slide. We're at. So on the eight principles. In the dialogues all featured last time case examples in which the principles were being localized and we saw how they look when they're being implemented so the first principle, which is about devolved decision making to the lowest appropriate level is really important both from the perspective of social justice and including those who have been historically left out of decision making and I'm driving public agendas, as well as because the impacts of climate change need to be understood from a very context specific case, this principle becomes really one of the key driving principles of locally led adaptation and the county, the decentralized county funds from Kenya were a very good example of how 70% of funds go to the lowest level of implementation, and higher levels of government do not have veto rights, then we have the second principle which focuses on structural addressing structural inequalities. We heard from the Gungano Urban Poor Fund and Yakum emergency unit in Indonesia both these were about essentially putting resources in the hands of marginalized groups as part of building their capacities and enabling their voices to shape public decision processes and allowing them to drive resources towards what they consider their big priorities. So those are the first two. The third one about providing patient and predictable funding that can be accessed more easily. There you see that the SGF and the Pawanka fund both use strategies to make the funds more accessible to local groups and local constituencies, but I would add that that when these kinds of funds invest in processes that have a long time frame and require a process of incubation where the results are not immediately visible and cannot be counted easily those also represent ways of providing patient and predictable funding. Then we have the, sorry there was one more, sorry, yeah, the investment in local capabilities and leaving behind an institutional legacy and there were examples of that from the Micronesia fund and the Latin American fund as well as canary. This is a vital principle or feature of locally driven action because we want to make sure that investments actually leave something behind in terms of local capacities and some sort of enduring legacy which will serve local communities and local people in the long term and they are more than just projects. Let's go to the next slide please. Then we had the idea of building a robust understanding of climate risk and helping people understand the uncertainty and the examples were from Funde Cooperation and the County Fund in Kenya, the Makma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in India, all of them had ways of bringing climate information to local groups and enabling them to understand more about the unpredictable weather patterns and changes in climate that are impacting their lives and livelihoods. The flexible programming and learning are also very critical because it requires the unpredictability of climate change requires groups to quickly do needs that are coming up locally. The Pawanka fund provided this and we saw this in a lot of funds and they reacted to the COVID crisis by quickly providing resources that could be used for the groups to deal with the COVID crisis. The principle on ensuring transparency and accountability. This is about both strengthening systems locally so that people can actually very simply have the systems in place that will show and demonstrate their ability to be accountable and transparent but it's equally about being transparent and accountable to local groups where we need to deliver impact and redressing the balance between accountability to funders and financiers and accountability to local groups who tend to be marginalized and whose voices tend to go unheard. The final principle focuses on collaborative action. Sheila was just talking about bridging different actors and helping them talk to one another and collaborate with one another and the best, I think, examples of this is something that we need to understand more about replicating and we know also that you need longer time frames in order to do this work. Let's go to the next slide. Some of the headlines that came up in the last discussion in terms of what people want to look at in terms of asks moving forward. The first one was about $1 billion locally led adaptation fund a call from Diane Black Lane from AOSIS as part of a larger fund to reduce to increase fossil fuel subsidies. The second headline is around promoting more devolved decision making and voices of local government and local voices from the ground in order to ensure that we are more responsive to local contexts. The third focuses on longer time horizons that are needed, not the two and three year projects that we often get and local people's time needs to be acknowledged the fact that when they participate in processes that shape policies and programs, their time needs to be remunerated and they need to be recognized for doing this work that community and local sorry organizations shouldn't be bearing all the financial risks right now the way in which risk is being defined is that a lot of global institutions financing institutions donors pass on a large part of the risk to local groups and local communities and they can afford to bear these risks and we need to look at new ways of looking at risk so that this burden is not on the local groups who are most affected by the large making processes earlier the local traditional and indigenous groups have broad networks and trusted networks which are vital to delivering local action and scaling up local action. So some of the questions that came up in the last session focused on intermediaries really needed to support locally led adaptation and what would be their role in delivering locally led adaptations. How are excluded people actually involved people wanted to know concretely what are the ways and mechanisms in which local groups local communities and actually be involved in shaping decision making processes around local adaptation and groups with this living with disabilities with one specific group that was pointed out pointed to how are local groups and organizations supported to build resilience in the long term. So that was another another piece that people wanted to understand better and you know what kinds of tools that what kinds of scenarios we need to plan for how do we need to create the ability to anticipate crisis. And what's the role of the private sector financial institutions microfinance institutions cooperatives and so on in delivering locally led adaptation. So, those are the eight principles. And with that, let me pass it back to or go unless anyone has any questions, and please put your questions into the chat. If there are any, and I can answer them, or we can find somebody else among the organizers to answer your questions. Thank you. Thank you so much so much for reminding us about the eight principles but more importantly giving sharing with us these examples on how these different delivery mechanisms different initiatives are already contributing to these eight principles and what we can learn from them, and how it can be used to scale up. Also mentioning and highlighting the key recommendations that have come out from these dialogues, including the need for a big financial target for local adaptation, the importance of long term financing, and key point about responsibilities for sharing risk at all levels. And last but not the least highlighting some of the important questions that will emerge in the first dialogue including the about the need or suitability of the perfect type of intermediaries is whether it is appropriate or not required at all, how to engage meaningfully the vulnerable population in these actions, involvement of the private sector, and other modalities for financing local adaptation. I think that's very useful. So please do pose your question in the chat box, and now we'll move to the next presentation and I'll request my colleague is the argument for the senior program coordinator for International Center for Climate Change and and development to make a presentation the pathways to scale up local adaptation is the approach yours. Hello everyone good morning. Pardon me my I'm struggling with four Internet for a few days I'll keep my video off. So my part is to give you an explanation before going to the breakout discussion from the last dialogue, and what are the pathways that we are thinking of so that you have a better idea before going to the breakout session and share your thoughts. Some of the points already shouldn't have touched on but I will go through all the points in a bit detail. So the fast to start with reflect on the discussion and some of the findings from the case studies for delivering the local adaptation that we uncovered in the first dialogue. Secondly, what other ways the international climate finance needs to shift and change to better support the development of these types of approaches to allow them to achieve the impact on scale. Finally, we will discuss if you were to pick one, what would be your ass he asked for cop 26. So just to recap, particularly for those who are at the first dialogue, one of the key question that ruled during the first dialogue was why do we need intermediation. Is that support locally lead adaptation. It was discussed that obviously we may need intermediaries because the sources of finance that kind of achieving impacts such as international climate finance for national funding development funding even private sector finance are often too large to reach the local level efficiently. So we do often need intermediaries, but crucial thing is about shifting to a better type of intermediation, working with actors that are more accountable closer connected to the local realities and local actors. Whether that being able to channel national funds to the local level. This exists across the whole of society, including state and government civil society and the private sector that are better placed, whether that be local government local enterprises local banks grassroots organizations, community based organization and cooperatives to better facilitate and channel money to the local. Now, crucially, this need to be able to support the inclusive governance. These are key in a blurs being able to represent local stakeholders giving excrete people a voice being able to take climate information which is often complex. So help the local constituents understanding find a space for rapid learning and adjustment to fit in new knowledge, whether that beyond climate resilience or climate rates into the future, and help improve how adaptation is delivered, especially better with an institution that are sustainable politically stable and within the country. So now the first dialogue we heard from 11 fantastic case studies approaches on delivery mechanisms supporting locally like a question across Africa, Asia and Latin America is playing various good practices in delivering the eight principles for local education. So my collection that already has mentioned that we already have developed few case studies some are still in development process development state, and we're still looking for others. These are few, just few examples, and we're kind of shown in the map and we are looking for new case studies you're trying to identify new case studies and we're almost sure that they are happening around the world. So if I go. If I kind of share the context of each of the case studies to start with with for the first one we have is community on granting the community adaptation small grants facility, South Africa, separate by Sandy and South South North separate and This fund is supporting locally lead adaptation in lively whose agriculture and human settlements. The second one we have is county climate change funds using devolution in Kenya, supporting locally lead adaptation public goods via local government institutions on poor rural areas dominated by pasteurism and agriculture. The next one we have is urban poor funds revolving local savings in Timbapwe. This is supporting urban poor priorities for capital grants and facilitation own savings we are evolving funds for sustainable slum updating, increasingly moving into adaptation and making amazing results for the poor with modest resources. The next one we have is whole of society local on granting and on lending environment investment fund in Namibia, providing grants and loans to NGOs SMEs and local government via endowment funds international climate finance and international levies for natural resource management and climate and adaptation and mitigation. The next one we have is from Bangladesh, it's climate bridge fund by back. It's facilitating direct grants to Bangladesh NGOs supporting urban adaptation measures particularly in the context of climate induced migration covering five city corporations and it's supported by KFW. The next one we have is local on granting in the Pacific Micronesia conservation trust and nonprofit cooperation providing long term sustained and small grants for partner lead conservation activities in the context of local climate change across the federated states of Micronesia. We have another one titled Community Resilience funds and making decentralization work by grass root, Yakum emergency unit in Indonesia. It's a grass root lead NGO supporting a community resilience fund providing small grants to women lead groups. The other one we have is adaptive special protection Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme in Orisha, India, utilizing the country's social protection mechanism and decentralization structure to provide climate resilience benefits across many rural households. The next one we have is global fund for Indigenous Peoples, which is Puanca fund. Global Indigenous Peoples led fund to finance Indigenous Peoples initiatives via grant making directly to Indigenous Peoples organization. The next one we have a civil society on granting for a critical ecosystem partnership fund CEF in Caribbean utilizing cannery, a regional intermediary with local footprint, 10 year grant making to CSOs for protection of critical ecosystem and to build climate resilience in the Caribbean, including CSOs led by women, youth and Indigenous people. The last one we have microfans for resilience, fund a cooperation, a private foundation with strong public and private sector collaboration seeking to support financial inclusion and sustainability in the tourism and it culture. And we also request please continue to share stories of delivery mechanisms are template is available and you will if you wish to share your delivery mechanism, we will share those ones with all of you. So taking all of these approaches these delivery mechanisms we have identified a set of themes we have state and government led approaches civil society and partnership based approaches and private sector approaches. Now the overlap in terms of their collaborations but we have various different themes emerging from utilizing state led approaches and national climate funds to provide grants and loans across local organizations, local government approaches where countries are using progressive decentralization and local governments utilizing is existing architecture to get climate finance to the local level to the to the hands of local governments down to the communities utilizing social protection scheme where cash transfer or the process says exists to delivery assets that are essential for the most Then the civil society led approaches such as those that aggregate communities and poor people's own savings such as an urban poor fund such as the Ghana Community Resilience Fund such as the ACA emergency unit. So civil society is a leading grant making to other civil society organization essential for meeting local needs. And the last one is we have private sector led approaches which we need to unpack more such as micro finance institution, cooperatives, even local commercial banks. So going into the first question for the breakout session would really like to think about these different types of delivery mechanism approaches these different themes these different types of the state government led or civil society led or private sector led approaches different context and to think what are the enablers that we can help the scale up of these different types of local delivery mechanisms or approaches. So what might enable government led finance to increase in locally led adaptation what might enable civil society to increase in finance or support locally led adaptation. The enablers for increasing private sector led approaches to support locally led adaptation. This could be having a strong local presence having strong local networks having supporting policy and regulations like decentralization, having strong support for building local capabilities. But what kind of capabilities, having bespoke finance mechanisms and what might be the key features, and do they have committed domestic source resources and from where. So that brings me to the second question the second question we want to ask is how can international climate finance better support these local adaptations. Who are these finances that can really support this long term patient predictable finance is easiest to be excess exist. And it's more mentoring and support is more flexible. It's this philanthropy fund, which bilateral donors might be engaged. What is the role of multilateral development banks so these are some questions that we want to explore more. What is the role of global climate funds to the currently play the right role. We know that it's incredibly, incredibly poor access poorly accessed at present and with only three EDA projects from GCF is there a need for a new funding window. And finally, the question we asked was, I mentioned several times that what is our key asked at COP26 to better support locally led adaptation. So now in the first round of dialogues in the Latin America the cab and Caribbean dialogues, where we got a call for $1 billion fund for locally led adaptation from Dan Black. But is this enough in the African dialogue yesterday we had a call for $5 billion per year to flow directly to regional national and sub national institution, not through international entities like the MDB or even agencies. And we want to ask you today, is this enough. What would it look like, what would be your key ask at COP that we can fit into competency. So, we are hopeful that you will share your thoughts in the break out break out sessions right after this presentation, and we will have our thoughts provided to the COP presidencies thank you thank you. Thank you so much that was very very useful presentation. Thanks for sharing the various examples and I think this hundred examples is a very powerful tool in itself to go and use it during when we talk to governments national governments and international donors and climate funds of how these practices are actually working on ground, and have enough evidence and needs to be scaled up so that's that's very good. We're introducing the interesting when diagram which shows clearly the different kind of delivery mechanisms and all of them are important, and perhaps can be enhanced improved or strengthen the court the currents between them. But nevertheless these are existing as you know institutions in place in many countries, and needs further support and be strengthened and to be scaled up so that that's great. So this, if anybody has any specific question please do type in the chat box, and we will move on to the third segment of which is the breakout groups, we will divide ourselves into around six groups or so. Each group will have a moderator and the moderator could use a jam board as required. As is presented in each group we would like you to answer three basic questions. Can we go to the next slide please. What are some of the enablers to scale up locally led adaptation. So Rangina talks about the eight principles. So if you really want to scale up actions around those eight principles, then what are the enablers. Second is what role can international climate finance better play to support these, these initiatives on the ground. We did hear from Sheila at the beginning that perhaps the climate finance or international finance needs to play a more catalytic role so that it can help unlock the potential for further actions on the ground for domestic sources of financing others. And third but not the least is what would be a key ask for COP 26 to support locally led adaptation. We did hear about discussions in Africa dialogue but clear asked about financial targets of a one billion or five billion per year for local adaptations so we would like to hear from you. But at the same time they could be asked which are beyond financial targets about really looking at how eight principles can be systematically scaled up in countries of our region to support the needs of the communities themselves. I understand that we will divide into four groups and not six groups. So we will assign the groups are by ourselves on a random basis, we have about 35 minutes for group discussion please to actively participate in the group discussion because the last one synthesis will be key for us to hear from all of you on how do we take this forwards. So with this, I'll request Jen to kindly assign ourselves to different groups. Okay, thank you everybody I hope you had exciting discussion your own groups. We had four groups so maybe I'm going to request first of all the moderators or the reporters from each of the group to introduce themselves. One, we know who will report back. So it's a group to, if it's me it think it's Christopher with support by myself. Thank you Christopher so much. Group three. Sorry, I don't know if we were good to or three but I can report back for and we know we will jump in. Great thanks. And the group for the notes that I think I'm the one who's been delegated to speak. Okay, thank you. I'll request if we can have the spotlight in the four reporters and I guess it's correct that there are only four groups correct. Yes. Super. All right. Okay, thanks, thanks I should have you see a maintain the gender balance and the reporting group that's sorry for that. Yes, of course. So I would actually see we have some time and your last number of groups so we can really make it informal. So if you don't mind, I'm going to start with a few questions. And I would request each one of you to not to report back but just a rather add on to if other people already said some things. I thought the group and I attended there was a big discussion about changes in national government systems, which could facilitate locally land adaptation. I'm not using the word national governments but rather government systems. So I'd be keen to hear from maybe group on other day if you want to start. What kind of suggestions came and what changes are required in national government systems to support it. Sure, I think you're right, or go there was quite a lot of discussion on this and we had some interesting insights. For instance, one of the, I think good examples is that the government of Nepal has mandated that 80% of climate finance needs to be invested at the local level, and a national policy directive of that nature can provide a major impetus for locally led adaptation and is can be a real pillar of an enabling environment for this. So I think to this, that was a really interesting discussion, also in our group on the degree to which the decentralized nature of governance in the country can support LLA, and I think there was little doubt that having a decentralized federal nature is also one of the important preconditions to making LLA reality, you know, ensuring that LLA flourishes in a highly centralized administrative and political context is going to be quite difficult. Aisha, anything from your side, from your group. Yeah, there was a point raised about, you know, sort of acknowledging that adaptation is this very continuous and long term process and so really needing a policy framework that supports this and and having like a line item or a budget allocation that supports locally led adaptation in, you know, linked to the annual development planning process. And I thought this was a really good way of addressing the mainstreaming issue that was raised earlier and also the acknowledging the fact that this, you know, we can't just have this project surrounding that comes from the international sources but really integrating it into these national systems like you said. Sorry. Thank you. Paul from your group. Any any suggestions on this. Yeah, so the Nepal example came up in our group to and the importance of decentralization but on the on the, not quite the flip side of that but one of the other things that came out that was really interesting was a conversation around, not just creating enabling environments or you know, supporting those policies but also actively removing policies that stand in the way of locally led adaptation. So things that prevent local communities from being involved in decision making around climate finance was a key one. And then kind of building from that we had a conversation around the need to improve transparency at all levels around how finance is allocated and accessed and hand in hand with that reducing corruption on the one hand. And in fact there was a comment made in our group that we might not necessarily need an increase in the amount of climate finance available if we could reduce impediments to its delivery, including siphoning of funding along the chain. And then the last point was around again related to that reducing transaction costs for communities, lowering the barriers to their involvement in these processes. Mary or go sorry to interrupt. Sorry, I was wondering if I can be slightly mischievous and ask a provocative question on on whether this contention that the more decentralized the country is the better the environment is for locally led adaptation is actually true or not. I mean I think of centralized regimes like Vietnam where there has been fairly robust and rigorous approaches where local communities have had to say determining adaptation actions. So I think, I mean while I agree and I'm not for one second am I saying that we should not have decent realization, but I'm saying do we need to think about that a bit more carefully. I'm saying this because in centralized countries should we just throw up a hand and say oh we can't do anything about local like LLA. I think there are still, there are examples that demonstrate that it's still possible to operationalize locally led adaptation, even when the political environment may be quite centralized and a well functioning federal structure may not be there. So that's my provocative input entirely from my side. It's gone with another provocative but which is you know when when the India process of decentralization began. An economist who said you need a very strong center to support decentralization of decision making and resources. So the issue is not centralized decentralized it's the, it's the actualization of the political will to allow resources to move to where they are and I think that's the caveat I want to put to what you were saying that it's not to do with just decentralize you need a very strong center to be committed to decentralization. Whatever the regime is whatever the political processes are. The, the issue is, do you want to give money in the hands of people who know, and you do you believe that work and vulnerable groups know what they need. I mean, let's flip it like that. That's what I would say. Thanks. There is one point to add here I'm sorry to chip in the father of decentralized acts in India, you'll see Jane, I got the end. I remember he quoted a simple example, how in a village panchayat the lowest rung in the governance in India, some president has taken some money for some service you know vendors and others asking payback that money. See, that's what Sheila madam is referring to here, you may have a strong center no doubt, but local, it could be enforcing fine, but do we have some indicators to check whether the people involved are really empowered to take a decision and a call. If that doesn't happen, I think it will back to square one. I think this is important. Thank you. Thank you so much. Maybe I'll go back to Mary, Mary from your group and any specific suggestions on national systems. Yes, I will promote others to come in it from my group because I'm huge amount of content but maybe just to add to that fantastic discussion is maybe just a few points were opportunities to do things such as citizen led science that really puts, I guess, processes that allow us to be the heart of showing what is the good evidence and what is classed as scientific information to be starting with. And the importance of translating both national and local policy into something that makes sense for local actors, particularly those excluded, not having them just in English, even when there are national policies and translate them into local language to allow information to be available and observable to allow people to participate. And obviously, as part of that, maybe just to build on that decentralization discussion, the importance of adequately building local government capacity in all of these issues around, I guess, you could frame it in a bundle around LLA in general and the principles and allow them to actually effectively play this, I guess, role of it as a facilitating agent at the local level. There were so many other ideas but I'm sure we can add them more as the discussion continues. Thanks, Mark. So I mean if I can go back to what Sheila was talking initially in the keynote speech if you identify some key actions to me, there are two, two buckets of action one is within the climate community at a national level to really advocate and ensure that the climate policies and plans are formally recognizing local adaptation solutions and as Nepal's case having a specific fiscal target associated with it. On the other side is to work with the development community who are largely involved in decentralization processes and try to see how existing decentralization processes. They really fit to deliver locally that adaptation in a context where climate is in a changing so rapidly, and we need much more flexible systems which allows learning to be captured and built upon so going back to other questions about Vietnam. I think a centralized system works, but if the centralized system works in terms of building local embankments, I don't I'm not sure if it works in building other local solutions which are not so rigid always it might need a different approach. So, I think the two key actions for us is to scale it up through climate policies and plans but equally have discussions around decentralization community and see how we can inform or influence them. My next question would be around this climb international climate finance, and I'll be keen to hear from all of you, what the group discussed about what changes are needed in international climate finance once again if I can go back to what Sheila was saying in a keynote If international climate finance is to play a role of a trigger or catalyst, then what changes do we need, so maybe we can start with Ayesha. So we had some pretty good discussion about this in our group and we we of course talked about access so needing to be needing simplified access, but we also had a really interesting conversation about the proposals itself and the design of the project and how if there was a requirement that in the design there was involvement from the local level input as to what their priorities are and not just kind of input to priorities but some, some aspects about capacity for following through once the project was over so this this feeds into the points about institution building and this being a long term process and not just a project. So that question of designing the proposal but then the point was also raised that there is often a gap between who designs the proposal and who implements and so having involvement at the design stage would really help bridge that gap and ensure that the local contractors are involved in the design and the implementation and this you know allows for capacity building throughout the entire process, which in turn, potentially could even help address this issue of direct access because I think it's a lot to ask for, you know, even to say it's simplified access. How simple is it really going to be so there is this huge need to have a slow and steady process for building capacity for for being engaged in this process. Thanks, Sasha. Paul, do you want to share anything from your group. Just a bit about processing access as well and one of the ideas that came up was whether they're permanent or transitional would be the establishment of sub funds or windows that specifically aimed to support scaled up locally lead adaptation, acknowledging that things like the green climate funds enhanced direct access. A good idea is struggling to deliver at this point and so, you know, other ways in which these large scale funds can can improve accessibility. We didn't talk specifically about it but I'm thinking things like the global environment facilities small grants program is an interesting example of that kind of very very local scale but do we need something that sits between that and the very large scale of climate finance that's impossible to access for communities and aggregator per se. We also talked a little bit about a couple of things one being a need to really rebalance towards adaptation so acknowledging that historical impacts are unavoidable regardless of the scale and rate of action to start to really scale up adaptation finance and not necessarily at the cost of mitigation finance but but certainly a scale up in terms of which a little bit of reducing corruption perhaps mean we need less funding overall but you know we can be a basket of contradictions and some discussion around potential ways of calculating that looking at things like burden share and fair share. On the one hand for levels of funding but on the other hand for levels of access. So, are there ways that we can look at specific vulnerability or risk metrics that could then target or help to target flows to particular places or particular communities. The other thing that came up was a kind of a sideline on you know donors also need to let go a little bit you know let go of such tight control and speaking of decentralization decentralize their their management structure of funds a little bit to the lowest possible mechanism. Thanks Mark. Thanks. Yes, so just to add to that, not to. Many of those points were also covered in our group about simpler access, maybe just to the two main points. One really clear one was, is it time that the accounting principles that are utilized by international climate finance reformed or they fit for purpose for supporting local adaptation as a general consensus now group but they're not, and they generally lead to a high risk aversion and an emphasis on fiduciary management rather than actually the risk of not investing and is this really getting in the way of supporting effective financing to the local level. And there's a general point on, I think it was in relation to a great discussion that we had on the role of potentially the role of local banks and facilitating local adaptation and the need to, I guess, support them in in a way that allows them to lend in more concessional ways. So, working very closely with local private sector allows them to shift, I guess the role that they have a way slightly from purely profit driven to allowing themselves to work as a, in many cases, capable institutions that can facilitate finance to play a role in supporting more concessional ending and achieving impact. Yeah, all the other points on more integrated approach is not working climate mitigation adaptation silos more patient funding easier access for also coming. Thanks Murray. So I think again in the interest of not repeating the point that I've already been mentioned many of which, which we discussed in our group as well. The additional thing that I would like to raise is there was an interesting dichotomy that was elicited in the discussions in our group on one hand. This whole idea of simplified access meant that, you know, one person in our group says that one of the ways of making sure that local organizations can access finances to parcel out small grants because they may not have the capacity to access large amounts of funding on the other hand, there was an acknowledgement that we need long term larger programmatic approaches for adaptation, because this whole idea of let a thousand flowers bloom hasn't really worked. So how do we bridge this dichotomy of making sure that there are small grants for local organizations, but there is a large part of funding multi year in a programmatic approach. And I think we had a little back and forth on that. But essentially, and I am looking to be malji here to correct me if I extracted the insight from that was that we have a larger programmatic strategic approach, but that it is, it provides windows of funding that can be smaller for local organizations so so they can access the smaller parts of funding, but they're actually part of a broader long term programmatic approach. So that was one, and the second minor point that came up as part of this whole idea of simplified access was on monitoring and evaluation approaches that currently people felt were too onerous. And one of the tangible ways in which it is onerous is that there is an inordinate emphasis on tracking outputs, whereas shifting to a more outcome oriented tracking process might provide a little more flexibility and room for local organizations to comply with the standards that have been dished out, especially as at the local level operational environments are highly dynamic. Thanks, Aditya. So if I just want to summarize the three, what I hear is one is the issue around revisiting the metrics on on releases on which you allocate adaptation finance accounting principles, which, you know, looks more risk taking approach. So these, these larger systems within the institutions have to change. Second is we did hear about project financing is important, but at the same time, maybe financing processes are also equally important. And there has to be certain windows to finance processes, which will, you know, capacity date the local governments and local community so then to go ahead and implement actual projects that's critical. And last but not the least about we heard about this tension between longer term funding requirements and unpacking it or in smaller bites where actually specific windows are created at which can which can be implemented based on local capacity. So that's a lot over here to digest. Let me move on to the last and final question and interest of time so you can just speak specifically stick to one suggestion on what do we would like to hear from COP. I don't think we have reached the chat shower yet. So maybe we can hold on for a minute over here. I just want to get back to the to the reporters thank you. So, one, one suggestion from each of your group on COP 26, what, what can be done what realistically can be asked for Apologies, so Rangina's had a hand up for a bit. Oh, sorry, I didn't see it. So Rangina, do you want to comment. So I'm so sorry, but I'm adding at the last moment but since I represent the private sector bank in Bangladesh so I would like to add a bit of my insight of the concept of risk sharing, because we at, of course, commercial banks are also always we think of the customers giving them proper return and things like this. So we at many a times there are, there are challenges from our side to and we also want to do want to help the communities around facilitate as much as we can but then again, thinking in that perspective, I would like to also put on the table, the concept of risk sharing, because since there are issues of capacities, and both for the, both at the private sector banks and as well as at the, the community we live in, there are, there are times that these communities do not know where to go to and seek help and come to the bank and whenever they need financing. So when the scenario is something like this, we need a kind of an intermediary who are well conversant with the rules and regulation of the private commercial bank as well as they understand the need of the community. And also a mechanism more like something like guarantee scheme, if possible, I don't know how it's going to fit in the scenario, because our central bank is also thinking of some kind of guarantee scheme to facilitate the sustainable financing. So, we're drawing analogy from that concept so is it possible to also kind of offer some kind of guarantee scheme, given by the international MF is or I don't know the advice if possible, and fast take this LLA financing as much as possible. So this was one thing and other thing is the importance of concessional lending, I would like to re emphasize again because since we deal with people's money and we need to give them proper return so if we get a concession and we can in turn help the community better. So these are the two things I wanted to have an answer. Thank you so much and first of all thanks a lot for attending this session I think it's great to have financial institutions, especially national financial institutions participate and thanks for flying the issue around to risk sharing also exploring the potential of various financial instruments like guarantee scheme, etc. And the importance of concessional lending and I think that's that's critical to unlock the further, you know impact or leverage for the financial financing from private sector eventually. So that I know Bimalji has raised his hands if you can keep it very brief Bimalji in interest of time. Please go ahead. Thank you so much. So I think in COP 26 one of the thing that we should aim is basically strong recognition of LLD within adaptation loss and damage and resilience discussions. And in terms of financing the reinfencing LLD fund within this developed country fund, adaptation fund, GCF and others, I think that is really important. So we should argue for adaptation plus and this plus is basically LLD and I think we while we argue for more additional funds within adaptation. I think we also need to really look into how LLD will get the shares for certain caps or certain you know the instance fund that will go directly for LLD I think will be quite powerful in terms of scaling up locally lead adaptation. Thank you. Thank you so much. I see Sorandana's title response is not just about delivering money but about convening collaborators. That's equally important from a climate finance point of view. If you can go back to the third question maybe I don't know who want to start. Maric do you want to start COP 26 one key points. So I'll just build up we didn't get fully to that point so I'll just build up what we already said so a commitment to reform international accounting standards that work for LLD. Thank you, Aisha. So our conversation really echoes what Saranshan has put in the chat so it wasn't about an amount of money it was really more about wanting donors to be more innovative and how they disperse that funding and who they bring into that process of developing the proposals. I'll just flag we talked about indigenous and regional knowledge and being a really key entry point for LLD so something innovative where that you know where that is integrated for instance would be an example of what we talked about. Thank you so innovative and integrated fall. You know conversation that brought up kind of you, you know the predictable points around, you know, increasing finance etc etc but I think the most interesting most interesting thing to raise. Right at the end, we talked about something outside the formal cop process and using it as a platform for people who are there or engage virtually to start to develop synergies of language and asks and approaches. So it was more of a movement for for locally let adaptation rather than a series of groups, which led Sheila to go a little bit rogue and propose a fourth question for our group to discuss, which was how many of us would be interested in participating in an ongoing series of conversations and actions between cops, so that we don't get to this time next year and have the same conversation in advance of COP 27 and was a resounding yes from our group and I would imagine it would be similar for others. Anything from your side. The message loud and clear from our group was that the, there needs to be a big advocacy push it up for easier access to finance for local entities, and a veteran of many cops in our group were felt, looking at the momentum around LLA. This cop can be the LLA cop. So I think that was the headline message from our group. Thank you. I think we'll move on to the last chat shower which very much resonates with what Paul mentioned, we would like to hear from you. One follow up action that you think we would like to see to scale up local adaptation post cop 26 in 2022. So please type your responses that don't send the ads. One action that he would like to see for scaling up LLA in 2022 follow up on Sheila's excellent suggestion collaboration with different actors, develop LLA coalition, at least his declaration for supporting LLD. Most vulnerable countries have LLA funding mechanism that is sustainable, inclusive and evolving very interesting. That comes with direct financing to further lay continue monitoring global and national decentralization of decision making on adaptation, more capacity building sessions, including private sector and public banks. That's great. Fantastic. So that was very, very rich discussion and this truly a dialogue so thank you everybody for attending. I mean I think we clearly saw a change in in narrative in this dialogue where we all recognize the impact that national systems have to play if you want to scale up locally let adaptation in a systematic and sustainable and inclusive manner, which requires for us to lobby and advocate in the national climate policies to strengthen the recognition of LLA and its principles is in projects and investments and supporting them and also in financing and in financial targets etc. We heard a lot about financing the dollar both the dollar figure we heard recently from colleague in Nepal that it is important to have traditional financing so we should not forget about that, but at the same time it's also about how financing is programmed how it's planned how it trickles down how it flows. It's financing for specific projects of financing for programs of financing for outcomes and results phrase financing. It's critical we heard from private sector and banking institutions their importance and to explore the importance of various financial products and financial instruments available for scaling up local adaptation. And the third aspect we heard was a lot about longer term financing longer term programming. And I think we need to be hard to out we're here to question ourselves, if you really want longer term financing for local adaptation, then what kind of changes are needed in our institutions, which would enable that longer term long term financing so in terms of strengthening institutions or sending existing national systems, whether it's on budget or all treasury systems, we need to emphasize that we need to look at larger governance and decentralization processes, as well as looking at more capacity at the local level around organizing communities working with collaboration with local governments and other partners of collaboration was a very big thing. So, at the end of it, it's all about how do we from now if you have to identify concrete actions, how do we strengthen national systems, how we look at financing, not just a quantum of financing but also the quality of the financing is dispersed. And of course, a longer term engagement and what kind of institutional changes and collaborations are needed to achieve the long term solution. So with that, thank you so much everybody for joining this dialogue. I would specifically like to thank colleagues from Save the Children Australia, IED, ICAD and WRI for for excellent present preparations for this event. And I'll hand it over to now I should ensure from WRI to talk about the opportunities to endorse and engage at the COP on LLE. So I should of course yours. Thanks so much Argo and thank you for your excellent moderation. Just very, very quickly. If any of you could go to the next slide. To flag this is almost our last dialogue we have one more for Latin America and the Caribbean tomorrow if you would like to join but we will have a really comprehensive report out because these have been incredibly rich discussions. And so once the dialogue series is complete, we will, you know, report out and as we've been discussing this will be just one step along this journey. We also have the videos of the case studies that I put the link to the videos of all the case studies that you heard about in the chat. And if there are other case studies that you're aware of so you can share with us we'd love to hear about them. So please do. Next slide. So, of course, COP 26 is going to be a major moment, but it's not the only moment. So please continue to engage with us throughout. But at COP 26, you know the adaptation adaptation campaign is really putting locally lead adaptation at the heart of adaptation loss and damaging. So flagging, we have voices from the frontline session. That's on November 8 from nine to 10 am and that's really an opportunity for us to bring all of this discussion, and he's asked that we've been brainstorming about to COP. There's also a resilience hub and you can see all the events that are happening there that are linked to LLA and there's a dedicated LLA hub. So we really encourage anyone who's interested in having more informal conversations like almost interviews between stakeholders involved in locally lead adaptation it's a very intimate setting. But we welcome hybrid or physical, you know, in person attendance there and they've put the email address that you can reach out to if anyone's interested in having any of those conversations at the LLA hub or you can reach out to any of us. And then of course there's an in climate days where we have an event on financing mechanisms to contribute to look inclusive locally lead adaptation specifically in fragile and conflict settings, and a second one on private sector and the role of the private sector in supporting individuals for locally lead adaptation. So, there's lots there. If there are events that you're aware of that you'd like to share with our community of practice, please do tell us we have a tracker, and we can circulate this so that everyone's aware of all the amazing adaptation efforts happening at COP. And then finally just a request or an invitation to join all of those who have endorsed the principle for locally lead adaptation to get in touch with us if you want to understand more what that could look like for your organization. And again, COP26 is a moment for new endorsements. But we really look forward to engaging with this community, you know, lead up to COP, but definitely after COP, COP is one moment of many and we really value all of the input that you've provided today so thank you so much, and thank you again also for brilliant facilitation and moderation. Take care everybody.