Community-based DRR

This study explored how government place-based planning and citizen-driven placemaking transform place identity of lost places after the 2011 Japan tsunami.

Cuba's "Mi Costa" and "AdaptHavana" projects, supported by UNDP and the Green Climate Fund, use nature-based solutions like wetland restoration and community involvement to protect coastal areas from climate change and promote long-term resilience.

Locally led anticipatory action - where communities prepare for forecastable hazards before they occur - provides a sustainable, community-centred approach to disaster management.

The publication highlights the vulnerability of older persons to climate change, calling for their protection in policies. It urges a rights-based approach to ensure their safety and participation in climate action, particularly in developing regions.

This report identifies three priorities to overcome barriers to climate adaptation and accelerate funding for locally led health adaptation strategies.

The Local Adaptation Champions Awards are prestigious awards, which spotlight groundbreaking and scalable locally led efforts, celebrate innovation in addressing the growing impacts of climate change while fostering resilience at the community level.

This brief recommends that the G20 encourage cities, other subnational-level governments, and in particular water resource management actors, to develop and implement climate adaptation plans and governance agreements by using participatory approaches.

A new survey explores the operational bottlenecks preventing local organisations from accessing climate adaptation funding.