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LOCALLY LED ADAPTATION

Welcome to GCA’s Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation, a platform to inform, connect and inspire local communities and practitioners around the world with the latest knowledge and solutions for adapting to climate change.

2025 GCA LOCAL ADAPTATION CHAMPIONS AWARDS

The Call for Applications for the 2025 GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards is open until 6 July 2025. The Awards spotlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sections of society, and individuals who are at the frontlines of the greatest existential threat faced by humankind. Help us shine a spotlight on your important work. Apply now!

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Community representatives from Patuakhali train BPATC staff on People’s Adaptation Planning process

Address structural inequalities

Build understanding

Collaborative action and investment

Devolve decision making

Ensure transparency and accountability

Invest in local capabilities

Homa Bay citizens meet to validate inputs for People’s Adaptation Plans

Institutionalizing Locally Led Adaptation in South Asia

Patient, predictable, accessible funding

Participants in GCA, GCF, Adaptation Fund meeting explore transformative potential of Enhanced Direct Access

Stories of Resilience: Lessons from Local Adaptation Practice 2024

Climate champions in Argentina, Burkina Faso, Indonesia, and Kiribati recognized at COP29 for locally led adaptation to climate extremes

Global Center on Adaptation Announces Strategic Collaboration for Climate-Resilient Local Economic Development

Gladys Wanga, Governor of Homa Bay County, advocates for People's Adaptation Plans

Turning waste into wealth through climate adaptation

How Trash-Eating Flies Can Tame Dangerous Floods in Kenya’s Capital

GCA CEO Visits Chattogram to Understand Climate Resilience Challenges of City’s Climate Vulnerable

LATEST NEWS ON LLA

Locally Led Planning: A Guide for Building Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements

100 VOICES OF THE VULNERABLE

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LLA STORIES FROM AROUND THE WORLD

LLA PRINCIPLES

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Devolve decision making

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Address structural inequalities

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Patient, predictable, accessible funding

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Invest in local capabilities

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Build understanding

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Flexible programming and learning

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Ensure transparency and accountability

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Collaborative action and investment

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