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IIRR Discusses Community Climate Resilience at 2010 Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum
(MANILA, Philippines - March 19, 2010) - IIRR was tasked to facilitate a group discussion as an offshoot of the second day of the 2010 Climate Investment Fund Partnership Forum held March 17-19, 2010 at the Asian Development Bank headquarters in Manila. The Climate Investment Fund is a gathering of various nations that are stakeholders to the financing support of multi-development banks such as ADB, World Bank and Bank of Africa.
The second day of the forum centered on the discussion “Building Alliances for Climate Resilience: Implementing the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience,” one of the financing modalities supported by the MDGs as part of developing country commitments to supporting climate financing.
The participants were then divided into groups with various sector representation wherein IIRR sat alongside organizations from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Australia, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Bolivia, India and the Philippines. The group was asked to answer the guiding question “How do you overcome barriers and create opportunities for transformational change to make development climate resilient?”
IIRR facilitated the discussion and gathered various standpoints from participants. One suggestion was that a national alliance on climate resilience should be formed with strong basis of involving communities or grassroots organizations in the process using local experiences and good practices as the basis of the national strategy for climate resilience. It was also shared that vulnerable groups like women, children and the youth have to be involved.
The discussion touching institutional mechanisms of local government units and civil society organizations has to be strengthened in order to reach a more concrete climate resilient strategy. IIRR raised the point that apart from strengthening institutional mechanisms, there is a need to level off with the definition of “resilience” since this is crucial in guiding the CIF’s adaptation financing. Finally, in relation to building national alliances, there is a need to ensure that financial support is in place especially for civil society organizations. IIRR then presented the output to the plenary representing the group.
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