Financing Locally Led Adaptation
Despite the potential of building local environmental and societal resilience, many locally led activities struggle to access any type of finance.
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The UNDP and its partners are at the forefront of funding resilience endeavors, and the aim of this session at the Gobeshona Global Conference 2 is to share how this can be done by others. The theme of the session is “Locally Led Adaptation – Finance, Innovation and Scale”, which is addressed directly to the conference theme.
The session is designed as a two-part interactive conversation. The panelists will be drawn directly from local projects and have intimate and distinct knowledge as to the difficulties, and possibilities, located in the locally led action space.
The first part would be a panel discussion focusing specifically on locally led action through a moderated discussion between four UNDP-sponsored projects. The discussion will begin with each project leader briefly explaining their project, the major challenges they face and how UNDP support will help them. The second part will be an open, moderated discussion between the panelists, with interspersed Q&A sessions with all participants. The key focus of the session is on providing a platform to these local entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurs, in a manner and scope that rarely affords them the opportunity to share their skills, knowledge and excellent; and an opportunity for others to learn and expand their own thinking.
