Like Akhtar, over four-fifths of rural Bangladeshis face more intense and frequent climate-linked disasters as the planet warms - and they are spending an estimated $1.7 billion a year to build back their shattered lives, according to a 2022 study by the International Institute for Environment and Development. To help get more financial support to poor households so they can better protect themselves, local and global organisations are testing new approaches like grants, loans, insurance and green bonds.
News, 20 May 2021
In the second episode of ‘Locally led adaptation – a time for action’, organisations that have signed up to the principles of locally led adaptation are held to account by two expert judges. Will their plans for tracking progress on putting local people in control of local level adaptation make the grade?
In this episode, ‘The ‘A’ Factor: accountability for locally led adaptation’, IIED’s Aditya Bahadur is joined by four global practitioners and researchers from organisations that have endorsed the eight principles for locally led adaptation to climate change. Each spells out what they propose to do to enable local people to be in the driving seat of climate adaptation decision-making, and how they will be able to show they are achieving these aims.