Driving Ambition for a Climate-Resilient Future
For nearly 20 years, the Community Based Adaptation Conference (CBA) has provided a hub for climate adaptation and development practitioners to share their experiences and ideas for building a climate-resilient future. CBA is the only global adaptation conference that puts the lived experiences and knowledge of local people at the center—creating a space that enables people from the front lines of the climate crisis to shape decisions about the future of adaptation.
CBA is planned by an international coalition of organizations and coordinated by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). The conference uses a variety of innovative formats that bring participants into engaging and challenging dialogue to explore experiences and community-driven solutions. CJRF provided about $190,000 in support of the CBA series from 2017-22 (CBAs 11-16). CJRF staff also serve on the conference Steering Group.
Our latest 2-year, $100,000 grant enables IIED to host CBA18 and 19, strengthens the existing CBA community of practice, provides sponsorships to Global South and grassroots practitioners to attend the conference, and shapes wider global discourse around locally led adaptation by elevating messages from CBA into other global spaces.
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Grants:
2017-2022: $190,000
2023: $100,000
Why CBA?
This conference provides space for practitioners, grassroots representatives, policymakers, and donors working at all levels to discuss how they can drive ambition for a locally led, climate-resilient future. Over the years, it has helped build a movement for community-based climate action, shaping major initiatives like the Global Commission on Adaptation, the commitment more than 100 global organizations to Locally Led Adaptation Principles, and successful advocacy to create the UN Loss and Damage Fund.
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