COP26: South East Asia Resilience Hub

Resilience building processes driven by local communities in collaboration with  local governments are demonstrating the capacities, priorities of local communities and innovative scalable solutions. What lessons can these initiatives offer for climate policy and finance at national and global levels? How can we bridge the gap between local priorities and global policies and finance? How do the priorities and experiences emerging from local institutions and actions resonate with policy and finance institutions? How should stakeholders shift their approaches to better align local priorities and capacities with global and national policies and financial mechanisms? 

This hour long virtual panel will bring together local stakeholders who are leading local adaptation in collaboration with local governments to present their experiences and make recommendations on what institutional shifts are required to scale up effective solutions for adaptation and resilience. The panel will also call on policymakers and financial institutions to provide their institutional perspective on community-driven resilience processes and identify institutional mechanisms that represent opportunities or barriers to advancing locally driven adaptation on resilience.