 Hi, my name is Obed Koringo from Care International and I'm one of the colleagues in the CBF 15 Responsive Policy Team together with Tapas Ranjan from BRAC. This team will focus on discussing how policy processes can be transformed to prioritize local knowledge, lived experiences, and locally led action. As you all know, integrating lived experiences and learning from local knowledge is a crucial element in the formulation and implementation of inclusive policies that promote the resilience of the most vulnerable groups. This team therefore will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss and share experiences, best practices, challenges, and practical methods and mechanisms for transforming policy to recognize and prioritize local knowledge, lived experience, and local local led action. We have therefore organized three main interactive sessions under this team and the first session will bring together community voices to discuss local responses to COVID-19 and how local action can be supported. Under this session, we will also identify what steps local and national governments can take to partner with local communities and strengthen their support towards local bodies bringing changes. The second session will focus on discussing how grassroots and urban poor women are impacting change in climate adaptation policy and practice. How grassroots and urban poor women are effectively innovating, engaging, and advocating for changes in policy and practice that speak to their priorities and needs. The third session will focus on discussing how we can bridge the gap between indigenous knowledge and devolved local government decision making. We will have panelists sharing experiences and lessons learned from indigenous communities that have integrated innovations and traditional knowledge to enhance community climate resilience. At the end of these three sessions, we hope to come with ideas and messages on how policies from local to the global level can be focused so as to prioritize local led action and local knowledge and contribute to increasing the adaptive capacity and resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change impacts. We hope you will be able to join us and contribute to experiences and lessons learned on these topics. Thank you so much and we look forward to interacting with you.