CJRF at CBA15 — Climate Justice Resilience Fund

We are excited to sponsor #CBA15 again this year. The email below highlights the sessions in which our partners are participating.

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We are sponsoring the 15th Annual International Community-based Adaptation Conference

The CBA conference series is a leading global, practitioner-focused climate adaptation conference and a vital opportunity to get local-level adaptation on the international climate-change agenda. For the fourth year in a row, we are serving as an event host and have sponsored many of our grantee partners to attend.

Join us June 14-18!

CJRF and our partners will be participating in the following events (all times EDT):

June 9th

3:00-4:00 pm:

CBA15 Meet and Greet – Hosted by CJRF staff

June 15th

3:00-5:00 am:

Voices from the Frontline: resilience lessons to policy makers – This session will bring together community voices from the “Voices from the Frontline” initiatives, discussing local responses to COVID-19 and how local action can be supported.
Participating partner: ICCCAD

7:00-9:00 am:

Locally Led Action Principles - how can we see them driving real impact? - This is the first of two sessions exploring the locally led adaptation principles in depth: what does success look like and how do we make it happen? This session will explore principles 1-4.
Participating partners: Huairou Commission; Slum Dwellers International; IIED; ICCCAD

12:00-2:00 pm:

How can we bridge the gap between indigenous knowledge and devolved local government decision making? The role of traditional knowledge for climate adaptation and local decision making – The workshop panelists will share experiences and lessons learned from indigenous communities that have integrated innovations and traditional knowledge to enhance community climate resilience. They will explore examples and approaches to how this knowledge and innovation has been included into local government planning, budgeting, or programme management.
Participating partners: Pawanka Fund; MakeWay

June 16th

3:00-5:00 am:

What women want: How grassroots and urban poor women are impacting change in climate adaptation policy and practice – This session will highlight how grassroots needs are being articulated, and open discussions around financing solutions for the urban poor.
Participating partners: Huairou Commission; Slum Dwellers International

7:00-9:00 am:

Locally Led Action Principles - How can we see them driving real impact? – This is the second of two sessions exploring the locally led adaptation principles in depth: what does success look like and how do we make it happen? This session will explore principles 5-8.
Participating partners: Huairou Commission; Slum Dwellers International; IIED; ICCCAD

7:00-9:00 am:

Leaving no one behind; Gender equality and intersectionality in community-based adaptation – This session will bring in a gender and intersectional perspective on how policies are framed and implemented, how climate funds are distributed, how digital technologies are accessed to support adaptation, discuss the gendered roles in local food systems and ways of engaging the youth in adaptation responses to support gender, climate, and intergenerational justice.
Participating partners: Women’s Climate Centers International; IIED

12:00-2:00 pm:

Exploring how indigenous knowledge can drive innovation to deliver adaptation to climate change – This session will focus on how ancestral knowledge and cultures can inform adaptation, food security and livelihoods discussions. Special attention will focus on women as custodians of traditional knowledge.
Participating partners: Pawanka Fund

June 17th

7:00-9:00 am:

Climate 101: climate science for community-based practitioners – This peer-to-peer training aimed at practitioners without prior climate training, focuses on key concepts and common misconceptions that adaptation practitioners need to understand in order to communicate with scientists and data providers, and use climate data and information effectively.
Participating partners: Huairou Commission; Slum Dwellers International; IIED; ICCCAD

12:00-1:45 pm:

Climate storytelling for impact – This peer-to-peer learning session will share a case study on impactful storytelling through film, what storytellers are doing to catalyse climate communication and a breakout group exercise on how to strategize with story for impact.
Participating partners: Docubox; Doc Society

Exploring Resilience in the Context of Climate Justice

CJRF is launching an exploration of the widely used and often contested term of “resilience.” What is resilience, really, and how does it relate to equity and justice?

You can join this important conversation in the following ways:

For CBA15 attendees: you can comment on the prompts in our #Climate-Resilience channel via the community page on the Huddle platform.
For those not attending CBA15: share your thoughts using this online form.
For CJRF partners: Please join our partners-only panel discussion on June 15th from 9:00-10:30 am EDT. We hope this live zoom discussion will explore the full diversity of how CJRF partners understand, critique, and use the concept of “resilience.”