Malawi will host this year’s International Community Based Adaptation (CBA12) conference in Lilongwe, with the focus on sharing local experiences of climate action.
The conference will be held from June 11 to 14.
The CBA conference supports community practices and advancing knowledge on community-based adaptation to climate change and promotes South-South collaboration.
The 11th International Conference on Community Based adaptation (CBA11) took place in Kampala, Uganda while the 10th International CBA (CBA10) on climate change was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
A statement made available from International Institute for Environment and Development website (https://www.iied.org/ community-based-adaptation), indicates that CBA12 will bring together CBA agents to showcase lived experiences, tools and examples in the CBA market place.
“The CBA meeting will also be a platform [for participants] to exchange knowledge and share expertise on a wide range of topics such as monitoring and evaluation, accessing climate finance, developing proposals and climate investment innovative finance for locally driven climate adaptation,” the statement reads in part.
The aim of the conference is to achieve inclusive and meaningful community engagement in decision making in ways that enable opportunities for gender-transformative outcomes.
Information sourced from the website indicates that poor and vulnerable people are particularly affected by effects of climate change such as floods, droughts and other extreme weather conditions.
“Locally driven action that addresses climate challenges is ever more crucial. The well-established CBA community practice works on sharing innovation, getting climate finance and preparing robust narratives to take ‘lived experience’ from evidence to influence.
“IIED is bringing a new approach to this year’s event. The programme will include two days of workshops, followed by two days of multi-stakeholder dialogues. The other days will bring practitioners together under three work streams,” the statement adds.
The CBA12 event is being organised by IIED in partnership with the Climate Justice Resilience Fund, GIZ, Global Resilience Partnership, International Development Research Centre, Irish Aid and Practical Action.— Mana
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