13/10/2025
13:00 - 15:00
IUCN Programme 2026-2029 Pavilion - R2
, Onsite
Why attend
Attend this session to explore how nature-based, community-based adaptation strengthens resilience, safeguards livelihoods, and delivers climate and biodiversity co-benefits. Gain practical insights from the CBAScale+ project, engage in collaborative discussions, and learn strategies for scaling inclusive, ecosystem-based adaptation approaches that can be integrated into national and local planning.
Session Description
This interactive session will explore how nature underpins community-based adaptation (CBA), highlighting the role of healthy ecosystems in protecting livelihoods, enhancing resilience, and delivering climate and biodiversity co-benefits. Drawing on experiences from the CBAScale+ project in Southern Africa, the session will showcase how communities can co-design and lead ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) initiatives, such as wetland restoration and biodiversity conservation, to address climate risks. Participants will share practical approaches for integrating nature-based, community-led solutions into national and subnational planning, including gender-responsive and participatory strategies that strengthen resilience. The session includes collaborative discussions to identify principles for fostering community ownership of CBA at scale and examines enabling environments and barriers in policy frameworks. By bringing together government, technical teams, and development partners, the event will advance dialogue on scalable, inclusive community-based adaptation approaches that place nature at the heart of sustainable development.Organised by
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