“The support they provide doesn’t help much at all. People don’t want any more rice and lentils. There is no more land to live on. We need better support.”
Join us online on 27 June, 14:00 – 15:30 BST (15:00 – 16:30 CEST) at London Climate Action Week as we discuss the state of frontline community engagement in climate action and options to increase the influence they have over how and where adaptation dollars are spent.
As the impacts of a warming world worsen year on year, those who have contributed the least to climate change suffer its worst impacts. Adaptation needs dwarf available funding by a factor of 5-10, making it critical that every dollar is spent where it has the greatest impact.
Ground Truth Solutions' work in Bangladesh with IIED and ICCCAD shows a significant gap between existing climate assistance and the most acutely-felt needs and priorities of affected communities. People on the front lines of the climate emergency report that climate adaptation assistance is unfair, insufficient and that they feel unable to influence it.
Our expert panellists will give an overview of the current state of community engagement in adaptation programming - including the results of our work with frontline communities in Bangladesh - and opportunities they see for adaptation actors to build more responsive and effective adaptation efforts.
Speakers:
Meg Sattler - CEO, Ground Truth Solutions
Aditya Bahadur - Principal Researcher, IIED
Michael Nkonu – Program Manager, Open Society Foundations
Cristina Rumbaitis del Rio – Senior Advisor, UN Foundation