1) Locally led adaptation recognizes the value of local knowledge and expertise to address climate risks and ensures local actors have equitable access to resources and power to build resilience. 2) There are 8 principles for locally led adaptation including devolving decision making, addressing structural inequalities, and providing patient and predictable funding. 3) Political commitment to locally led adaptation is growing but finance is not reaching the frontlines where it is needed. Over 70 organizations have endorsed the principles for locally led adaptation.

1. Locally Led Adaptation
Tamara Coger, Senior Associate, Climate Resilience, World Resources Institute
Event Series on the IPCC WGII Report by the Adaptation Action Coalition
March 23, 2022

2. What is Locally Led Adaptation
• Recognizes the value of local knowledge and expertise to
address climate risk
• Ensures local actors on the frontlines of climate change have
equitable access to power and resources to build resilience
• About agency, not just participationor inclusion

3. Finance not reaching the frontlines

4. 8 PRINCIPLES FOR LOCALLY LED ADAPTATION
Devolving decision
making to the lowest
appropriatelevel
Addressing structural
inequalities faced by women,
youth, children, displaced peoples,
Indigenous Peoples, people with
disabilities & marginalised ethnic
groups
Providing patient &
predictable funding
that can be accessed
more easily
Investing in local
capabilities to leave an
institutional legacy
Buildinga robust
understandingof climate
risk & uncertainty
Flexible programming&
learning
Ensure transparency&
accountability
Collaborative action &
investment

5. Growing political commitment on locally led adaptation
• COP26 Adaptation Campaign put LLA “at its heart”;
more than $450 million for efforts specifically targeted
at implementing locally led approaches committed at
COP26
• U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and
Resilience (PREPARE) explicitly supports LLA
• Climate & Development Ministerial Summary stressed
the importance of LLA
• G7 Foreign & Development Ministers communiqué
welcomed the principles

6. 70+ Organizations Endorse the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

7. 70+ Organizations Endorse the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

8. 8
AAC workstream on locally led adaptation
• Building evidence for LLA and sharing good practice
• LLA Community of Practice to support learning, coordination
and follow-through among the 200+ members and counting
• Regional dialogues on knowledge exchange and identify
recommended solutions
• Raising awareness and integrating LLA through global
processes and convenings

9. 9
County Climate
Change Funds,
Kenya
South Africa
Community Adaptation
Small Grants Facility,
SANBI
Namibia’s
Environment
Investment Fund
(EIF) Gungano Urban
Poor Fund,
Zimbabwe
Pawanka Fund
for Indigenous
Peoples
Fundecooperación,
Costa Rica
Micronesia
Conservation Trust
YAKKUM
Emergency Unit
MGNREGS,
Odisha
Climate Bridge
Fund, BRAC
Bangladesh
Critical
Ecosystems
Partnership Fund
Huairou Commission
Community
Resilience Fund
Global
Nepal
LAPA
Bhutan
LoCAL
Niger
LoCAL
Mali
TreeBank
Antigua &
Barbuda
Sustainable
Island Resource
Fund
Urban Poor
Funds
International
Belize Credit Union
League
MesoAmerica
Territorial Fund
FONERWA,
Rwanda
Locally led adaptation is already happening

10. Looking Ahead
• Strengthening the growing coalition for locally led
adaptation
• Continuing to build the evidence and knowledge base
• Translating commitments to action
• Delivering finance (target of 25% climate finance to LLA)
Get involved: wri.org/initiatives/locally-led-adaptation or
iied.org/principles-for-locally-led-adaptation

11. Image: UNDP Climate/Flickr.