Collectively Addressing and Gathering Lessons on Loss and Damage

UUSC will support partners across the Pacific to collaboratively assess and address climate-induced losses and damages being faced in their communities. Together, partners will determine and co-design the range of activities that each organization, or a few organizations together, will undertake through subgrants from UUSC. Design activities include youth organizing to map out what is being lost or damaged and community-led strategy development to seek resources for rebuilding or relocation. Other activities include protection of traditional knowledge through storytelling; preservation of traditional knowledge through intergenerational dialogue; and litigation at the regional and international levels. UUSC is also engaging in participatory monitoring, evaluation, and learning in this grant in a deliberative and consultative manner.

Profile

Grant:

2022: $225,000

Region:

Pacific Islands

Issue Areas:

Loss and Damage

Why UUSC?

UUSC has strong partnerships with grassroots organizations and centers their voices in the work they do. By empowering grassroots organizations to identify their needs and how they can best address injustices, UUSC supports self-determination and challenges entrenched power structures. Their innovative and practical approach to learning will also contribute to developing global good practices for addressing loss and damage.

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