GOBESHONA GLOBAL CONFERENCE 4

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice

This event at the fourth Gobeshona Global Conference was an opportunity for local adaptation practitioners to reflect on broader systemic change that is necessary to support locally led action, explore and share experiences on locally led adaptation, and showcase diverse implementation methods, progress monitoring, and lessons learned

Event description

GCA’s annual Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation in Practice publications are an opportunity for local adaptation practitioners to describe and reflect on their work –successes, challenges and even failures. They are also an opportunity for local practitioners to amplify messages for national and global policy makers, on how they can support ambitious, inclusive and transformative local adaptation action.  

The 2023 edition of Stories of Resilience found that while local communities have no choice but to try to adapt to the multiple and complex challenges that climate change throws at them, global and national systems are simply not changing fast enough to respond effectively to urgent local adaptation needs. Policy makers and providers of finance have a long way to go towards building an enabling environment for LLA. 

This event at the fourth Gobeshona Global Conference was an opportunity for local adaptation practitioners to reflect on broader systemic change that is necessary to support locally led action, explore and share experiences on locally led adaptation, and showcase diverse implementation methods, progress monitoring, and lessons learned.