The online platform of the Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) aims to inform, connect and inspire local communities and practitioners around the world with the latest knowledge and solutions for LLA.

GCA’s Global Program on Locally Led Adaptation was developed to address the need for people-centric, climate-smart development that gives lower-income and vulnerable communities, including women, a voice in adaptation investment planning and implementation. A bottom-up approach to investing in public services, nature-based solutions, and infrastructure in urban areas – including affordable housing, resilient transport connectivity, and water and waste management – will help cities become more resilient. While other local organizations are often best suited to support these bottom-up approaches, these stakeholders often cannot access finance at a scale that is required. GCA’s Global Hub on LLA bridges this gap by facilitating the preparation of locally led ‘People’s Plans’ for adaptation and consolidating these plans into investment projects of International Finance Institutions.
 
The LLA Program is already supporting the delivery of urban climate adaptation solutions, which include a significant community engagement component, in Monrovia (Liberia) and Dakar (Senegal).

The GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards spotlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sections of society, and individuals who are at the frontlines of the greatest existential threat faced by humankind.

These training and mentoring courses help journalists and digital content makers support adaptation action in the battle against the impacts of climate change.

This Guide provides resources for locally-led, inclusive, multisectoral upgrading for climate resilience in urban informal settlements. Designed as a guide not a toolkit, it pays particular attention to context and its variation across cities and countries.

In this year’s Stories of Resilience, we bring you a crucial message from communities implementing adaptation on the ground: global and national systems are not changing fast enough in response to urgent local adaptation needs. Global and national policymakers and providers of adaptation finance “must do better” to activate transformational adaptation by creating the right enabling environments.