Frontline Communities in the Lead of Climate Adaptation
“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
Navigating Aid: User Journeys of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Moldova and Romania
“When I lived in Ukraine, I had my pension and this was enough for me to live a decent life. Here, I feel ashamed that I have to ask for humanitarian aid.”
Ground Truth Solutions (GTS), in collaboration with Open Space Works Cooperative, explored the perceptions of refugees from Ukraine living in Poland, Moldova and Romania about their experiences with humanitarian aid. Between December and March 2023, we spoke to over 900 people over social media in the quantitative part of our research and had 36 in-depth conversations with people about their journeys and experiences to their new country of residence as part of our qualitative research. We will be sharing our report with you ahead of the event.
The aim of this webinar is to present and validate our findings and discuss potential recommendations and solutions for improvement. We will also hear best practices from other organisations working on Poland, Moldova, and Romania.
We would like to invite a variety of actors working in humanitarian aid (from different types of organisations and different roles within those organisations). To enable a wide representation, we would like to ask you to forward this invitation to those who you believe will find this useful.
This event occurred in the past.
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