Welcome, everyone. My name is Christina Rombaida-Stelrio. I'm a senior adaptation resilience advisor at the World Welfare Institute. Oh, and I can hear the French translation for some reason. You wouldn't mind fixing that. We do have translation available for today's dialogue. Please click on the more button, and you should see a button for interpretation, and you can select the language of your choice, espagnol, português, or français, et aussi. I'm filling in for our moderator, Rebecca Shirley, who is the director of research, data and innovation at the World Resources Institute in Africa. She'll be joining shortly and we'll take over moderation. Unfortunately, there's been a power outage where she's based, but we're very excited to kick things off today. Excited to have you all here. The goal of today's session is to advance locally led adaptation. Around the world, we're seeing growing recognition of the importance of locally led adaptation, and today we're going to discuss what this looks like in practice, and ensure that finance and decision-making processes are reaching communities on the very front lines of climate change, and discussing and learning together how we can learn from existing practice, of which we'll hear some great examples, and how we can work together to scale support for locally led adaptation. Today's session is not an end in and of itself. It is part of a process of learning and learning how to support locally led adaptation, investing in these approaches, and moving away from the status quo and top down adaptation to a new standard of agile, equitable, and locally led adaptation. This is the first in a series of two dialogues that we'll be hosting in the lead-up to COP26. Our next session, so you can mark your calendars, is on October 14th, and we really hope that you will be able to stay with us to really engage in a learning discussion about this critical subject. For today's session, after we hear from our distinguished keynote speakers, we'll have a brief presentation on the global movement for locally led adaptation, and then we will hear from three organizations who are doing the work themselves. We'll hear what they're experiencing, what they're doing to deliver locally led adaptation on the ground. Throughout the program, you as participants have the opportunity to contribute to the discussion and pose questions. We'll have the chat box available for everyone, as well as mentee meter polls that we'll introduce a little bit later. So our ambition here is to make this as dynamic and as much of a dialogue as possible. A few housekeeping notes before we kick off. Please note that this session is being recorded. As I mentioned earlier, we have translators in Spanish, Portuguese and French, and please do make use of that service if you like it, if you need it. And then finally, please keep yourselves on mute when you are not speaking, just so that we can all hear the translation and hear the person who is speaking. So with that, I thank you all for being here for this very critical discussion. And I'm very pleased to have the honor of introducing our first speaker, Hugh Davies, who is the deputy director of the UK COP26 unit. Hugh, over to you. We're very excited to hear from you. We're very excited to hear from the COP presidency about this important issue. So the floor is yours. Thank you so much, Christina. And thank you to all the colleagues who have been involved in arranging this important event. It's a real pleasure to be speaking today at the third of these regional dialogues on locally led adaptation. As Christine said, I'm the deputy director in the COP26 presidency team. I focus on issues of adaptation and loss and damage, which we really want to give prominence to. But over the past six years, I've been the deputy lead negotiator for the UK. And so I'm very familiar with these issues. And like many of you know that locally led leadership on adaptation, it is so crucial to making progress in this area. The Latin American and Caribbean region is one of rich biodiversity and also highly vulnerable to climate risks. Last year, we saw the devastation caused by multiple hurricanes, including Eta, intense drought, heavy rainfalls, heat waves and wildfires resulting in severe impacts on natural systems and people's lives and livelihoods. And it's vital that we as an international community do more to adapt to these impacts and build long term resilience. But we also know that there's a lot of action and progress already being made at the local level. And we look forward to hearing about more of the examples that are being shared today. As I say, we as a climate community known for a long time that local knowledge and solutions are essential to successful adaptation and enabling inclusive locally led adaptation is a critical part of what we as a presidency are seeking to catalyze and to continue through to the African presidency at COP 27 and beyond. We want to give that platform and that starting point for future presidencies to really take on. The principles for locally led adaptation provide a framework for how adaptation can be delivered more effectively. We appreciate all of your support with that. We must work together to determine how we integrate these principles into our decision making and implementation processes so that marginalised people and communities as critical agents of changes are empowered to plan for and protect their own future and that finance is accessible to those who need it most. All sectors of society, including local and national government, businesses and civil society, multilateral development banks and climate funds must work together to share knowledge and support progress at all levels. In supporting the LDC initiative for effective adaptation and resilience program, Life AR, the UK and presidency team recognise that countries and local communities are the experts in informing the decisions on how to prepare for climate change in their own context. They should have the autonomy to make informed decisions on building their resilience. With Fiji and other partners, the UK presidency launched the task force on access to climate finance to align programmatic support behind national climate plans to improve local level access to financial flows. Again, we as a community all know how key that is. A set of principles under the task force on access to climate finance will be developed and published to underpin and guide the new approach before COP with climate providers encouraged to sign. We're encouraging the adaptation research community to endorse the research principles to carry out action-orientated research that responds to local needs. The adaptation research alliance is seeking to catalyse action-orientated research, strengthening collaboration between southern-led local universities and research institutions to enhance capacity building. Ahead of COP26, the UN General Assembly later this month and the Italian-led Pre-COP in October, all of these provide opportunities for highlighting the importance of locally led adaptation and the progress which is being made through donors and the international community, including the task force on access I've just mentioned and crucially life AR. In making locally led adaptation a central priority for the COP26 presidency, we not only want to amplify the cause for greater support for locally led action, but also address the barriers that restrict and prevent finance flowing to that local level. We want to carry momentum into the African COP27 presidency with adaptation and loss and damage a priority for developing and developed countries alike. I look forward to hearing the outputs of what I'm sure will be a rich conversation today and continuing to work together to take collective action on this crucial agenda to COP26 and beyond. Thanks again to the organisers for setting up this important event. Thanks to you for attending and thanks also to our team of interpreters who are making this accessible for all. Over to you, Kristen. Thanks so much Hugh. It's great to hear about the UK's recognition, a long time recognition of local knowledge, support for the principles for locally led adaptation and your constant efforts to support more devolved and responsive finance for communities on the front lines of climate change. So really thank you for sharing those thoughts and your comments. It's now my pleasure to introduce my colleague Rebecca Shirley who is the director of research data and innovation at the World Resources Institute in Africa. Shirley, I'm going to pass the baton to you to continue the moderation of today's session. Glad that you could make it. Great to see you. Thank you, Christina, and welcome everyone. Thank you for joining us today for such an important event. My name is Rebecca Shirley. As Christina said, director for research data innovation at WI Africa. I'm joining you actually from Nairobi, Kenya and always half of my heart is at home in the Caribbean where I'm from. So I'm thrilled to be your moderator today for such an important dialogue. Hugh, thank you so much for kicking us off. It was wonderful to see how much locally led adaptation is a priority for the upcoming COP. And I, as a researcher, really appreciated hearing about the capacity building and research being prioritized. Without further ado, I'm now pleased to introduce our keynote speaker, her Excellency, Miss Diane Blackleen. Diane is ambassador for climate change and director of the Department of Environment of Antigone Barbuta. She's also the lead climate negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island Developing States. Diane, thank you so much for taking the time to join us today. Please, the floor is yours. Okay, thank you so much for inviting me. I appreciate it. Can you hear me? Yes, okay, great. So as the negotiator for the chair of AOSIS, Antigone Barbuta, I want to make it very clear to everyone who's listening and everyone who is interested in locally led adaptation and as well as mitigation measures that it is our view that there's no way that we can change what is happening now and shift without locally led action. And I'm going to say something that's a little bit controversial and I hope you can forgive me. This is something, a prelude to what we're going to say at COP, I guess, 26, is that 86% of the greenhouse gases, well over 80% of the greenhouse gases is coming from the fossil fuel industry. We're not, it's not just coal, it is diesel, LNG and natural gas. And in terms of money going towards to to damage the climate, they're getting over $600 billion a year. Money to help to fix the damage that they're causing that is directly that we can count that we can directly see that is ours and mostly grants is about $2.4 billion a year going to the UNFCCC fund. There's a lot of question in between how much it is and we fight over that at COP and we go back to the money that's sent to the World Bank and stuff like that, all of that is loans. But it was, it's very clear, we know how much money is going to the fossil fuel industry and most of that is grants, tax breaks and everything. So where do locally led people fit into all of this is that you pretty much have $2.4 billion that is set aside by donor countries for 130-something countries to access. So it's really a small amount of money when it boiled down per country and most of the cost of adaptation by the state is so high, it really leaves very little room for locally for access to financing by locally led people. So there is an issue of scale of amount of money that is available. I wanted to tell you the funds for the, that is assigned to the fossil fuel industry. I want you to understand that because you can see there is more room for additional funding to be shifted to fixing the planet. Secondly with access, accessing money by fossil fuel industry is much, much, much, much easier than accessing by local sector. And one of the biggest risks that we all face, including my government, all the governments of AOC, in terms of Hugh and his team have been very great and they've come to us and said you need to declare and all the countries of the world have to declare what their ambitions would be. But there is a big problem with that. There's a huge political risk to governments declaring their ambition to cut back.  The fossil fuel industry are rich, they have a lot of cash, a lot of subsidies of money they don't need and they use it to fund political campaigns. And several times in the US, for example, and even in the UK, the UK government was one of the first to coin the $100 billion a year figure and the government of the day that came up with that figure and popularized that figure last election. In the US a similar thing. So what we're seeing is that politicians have to be careful how much they can say about what it is that they want to do. How do you mitigate against that?  We have to tell people this is climate change, we have to explain it to them and then we have to give them the responsibility and the means and the tools and the information to execute that responsibility in a meaningful, functional way. So when a politician is saying, I have to put a mission, the locally led people would understand and can help him communicate that to local people. Local people are suffering and then they go to the polls and vote against their own interests and they have no idea that they're doing this. Now, of course, we can't take money from the UNFU procedure draft, the GCF and so on and fund political campaigns. Then maybe there will be a fair fight, but we can't do that. So locally led action can help a lot in the inertia in the system is because the risk to transition is so high you're almost sure to lose your job if you're a politician and this can help to mitigate that risk. If we can get money directly to the local level and get it to them in a way that they can understand, get it in the design and implement and report on projects in a way that is not onerous, some of the data requirements that we have for these projects are too much. And so many local communities are like, you know, I don't want to get access to that funds because it's just too much. And then if you don't, you cannot report on the funds in a way that we are would like, you know, like we are went to university, we all have a master's and all of us because some of us have master's PhD. So we're expecting reports to look like that. These locally led people cannot do that. And we have not quite accepted that and quite adjust our expectation and the reporting requirement to that in many countries. We've seen a shift, but that is not occurring. So I just want to summarize today's what AOSIS would like to see coming out of COP26. And we will be proposing this is that we're going to ask you and his team to consider that instead of taking some of that 600 or something billion dollars that everybody G20 not just developed country developing country to using for destroying the planet is to shift just one billion just one billion per year. Just one billion of that 680 billion, let's shift one billion per year and provide that in a special funds for locally led action on for climate change, just one billion per year for NGOs and for community groups that have specialized access modalities. Not quite like the Jeff small grand program, but something similar, but larger amount of money to just small small grants is just $50,000 and climate action is expensive. And so this is what we would like to propose as AOSIS coming into COP26 and it will be good if the UK government could see if that is something that they can as a legacy coming out of all of their hard work to get all of us to come to COP is to propose that this is something that we can we can have and so that we can empower people in the local level to not only take action to also have a say proper say with a much information in enough information on all of our decisions which is back to climate both good. Thank you and then Diane thank you so much for for your insight for remarks and of course as always for being such a champion for locally led adaptation. I think right out the back you've taken us to the heart of the matter on the challenges for local adaptation and yes there are many challenges not least of which is that currently as sort of as you're saying less than 10% of the international climate finance funds available are actually dedicated to local adaptation and you beautifully explained how this finance gap how this finance challenge is actually related to political and power dynamics bringing the distributive and procedural justice implications right up to the fore. So thank you so much for that and I think that your point is that in the midst of that challenge there's actually ample room to put funds towards LLA I jotted down your million your billion dollars per year for LLA with specialized modalities and I think that a lot of our audience is probably quickly jotting down their notes and nodding along with you as well so thank you so much for kicking us off like that. Now we have a quick menti poll to help us get to know each other a bit and to see who all is in the virtual room together so I'm going to pass over to Marek Soans from IID who will guide us briefly through a few quick questions Marek are you there? I am I think Christina is going to take my role on this. Okay sure yeah I was gonna take this over but Marek I'm having a little bit of trouble getting onto the site so if you wouldn't mind sharing your screen to pull that up that would be really helpful I'll keep trying but so we have this this menti poll what you need to do is to go to www.menti.com ideally on your phone but you can also open up another web browser and do it on your on your computer and enter in the code 7576 space 9058 we have a series of questions just to get to know each other better to get to know who's in this this virtual room since we can't meet face to face and so we have a number of questions we'd like you to to answer you can just click through the questions and so just to kick us off where are you connecting from I've seen Trinidad and Tobago already in the room looks like we have Colombia Barbados Canada St. Lucia Mexico we hope you're doing well with the earthquake there Costa Rica Kenya as well very international crew that we have here today so that's that's great to see now we want to see in what sector are you working you know if you can define your sector sometimes it's cross cutting but we see agriculture climate finance economic development gender equality so so critical regional integration um gobierno governance uh or government more specifically great energy um great to see so many different sectors represented next we want to hear what are the issues that you're working on again this is a pretty cross-sectoral group so i'm sure there's a variety of course we have climate change and climate resilience but also natural resources management the public sector mitigation energy efficiency money where it matters i love that that's important finance sdgs great we have a lot of different different issue areas represented here but particularly climate finance climate change resilience next we want to know if you've heard of the principles for locally led action i see the results are are still coming in it's split about 50 50 so we have some people who who know what these principles are that we're talking about and and maybe a slightly larger proportion who don't know what the principles of locally led action are well don't worry about it because you will you will hear about those in great detail in in just a little bit so you'll you'll leave understanding what those are next we want to know your level of experience with locally led adaptation action um and again these are anonymous and everyone had to start somewhere so so don't feel bad if you feel that you're you're just here to learn um and we do have many people in that category which is is great to see um we also have some people who have a little bit of experience and some that have some experience and a small minority that have a lot of experience they would say with locally led action that's great it's it's you're all welcome here we're we're excited to have you here no matter what your level of experience or familiarity is your your opinion matters to us um rebecca i'm going to turn it back to you so we can proceed with the program and and learn a little bit more about locally led action wonderful thank you for the exercise christina that was actually really fun it's great to see the diversity that's in the room and it dawned on me that this means that there are many in the in the call themselves who were perhaps affected as tropical storm grace swept through the northern Caribbean last month my own family was or perhaps as I had a lash to the eastern seaboard of the united states just last week or even as heavy rains battered the southern Caribbean um and trinidad and tobago in particular literally just a few nights ago um and that exercise really reminded me that these are our homes these are our families these are our livelihoods in our communities so again adaptation at the local level just so so crucial um wonderful so next that uh brings us to our our next speaker um and to get us all onto the same page we're going to have a brief introductory presentation of the principles of locally led adaptation from elene marina cunningham of cad pi el centro parla autonomía de desayuno de los pueblos indígenas so elene over to you uh hi rebecca so it's marica and unfortunately uh elene had to at the very last minute attend to a personal issue so i'm going to step in the very last minute for elene and it's real shame that elene can't be here to present this introduction on the global movement to local adaptation so hopefully i can uh do her introduction justice not a problem maric over to you so it's a real pleasure to be here and speak after you and diane's fantastic intervention so what i'm to uh going to give you today is a bit of an overview in a context setter on what is this movement behind locally led adaptation why we're so interested in supporting it um and an introduction to the eight principles which we've heard several speakers already introduced so what are they why do they matter and what is this um these dialogues all about that we're here to today and many people from those polls are here to learn that's fantastic to hear so what is locally led adaptation so i'm sure you would all agree and or most of you will i hope that adaptation and building climate resilience really needs to focus on individuals households at the local level and their local organizations that represent them we would all agree that that they're the focus of need to be the focus of building adaptation because they're the ones on the front lines of climate change right now they're the ones dealing with most of the impacts however locally led adaptation is more than this it's about actually giving these individuals households communities local organizations at the front lines of climate change more power and agency over their own adaptation to be able to prioritize to design to implement to monitor and evaluate the successes and if their resilience is actually being improved and their livelihoods and their sustainable development is being benefited and the important aspect is that we know that there are many local organizations and institutions that are there and able and committed to supporting local people to help facilitate their agency over their adaptation whether they be civil society organizations like community-based organizations and social movements that are able to represent excluded people support investment in people led solutions or local government authorities and subnational governments that are responsible for meeting local needs and delivering public services and infrastructure if properly supported and we have local enterprises in the private sector both formal and informal including financial institutions cooperatives even households themselves that actually are the economic backbone of countries both in developing and the developed world that are the most important ones to support not the corporations that and Diane mentioned the fossil fuel companies or the big corporations that are putting tax elsewhere but these are the local enterprises that are really delivering for the livelihoods of people within countries next slide please Ebony and it is the fact that we haven't supported many of these local organizations and people at the front lines of climate change it's part of the reason that we haven't supported them that we're in this triple crisis this climate biodiversity and inequality crisis that we're facing now because we haven't enabled equitable and inclusive decision making and rows across how we develop and this and this is despite the fact that households at the local level are already spending the most on adapting to climate change and responding to disasters they're already spending most of their income when they have little income spare when most of that income is focused on delivering to immediate needs yet they're having to spend the most on responding to these challenges and this is despite the fact also that when we support local adaptation it can often be most effective or context specific provide more agile and diverse solutions we're supporting much larger a range of adaptation rather than a few solutions that might fail under different challenges providing more innovation and more accountable and inclusive solutions when done so effectively and it might not be that all adaptation needs to take place at the very local levels but it's clear that we need to support more to take place at the local level I'm much more collaborative responses across levels of government and across the private civil society and government sectors yet too little climate development and humanitarian finance reaches the local levels we heard earlier that less than 10% of global climate from finance is dedicated to local actions but we also have seen a continuing failure despite international commitments for instance the humanitarian grand bargain committed to get 25% of humanitarian finance to local responders yet less than 2.5 we need to radically change this to shift and move away from this triple crisis and the fact that we're not getting the finance at the local level is part of this business as usual system that we're operating in where most adaptation finances pouring quantity as Diane introduced but also pouring quality it's often highly intermediated through a small array of international organizations that hold on to the knowledge what's seen as knowledge leading to top-down designs away from local actors in distant headquarters doesn't build local capabilities that are essential to deliver transformative change to actually be there to help the sponsors and build long-term resilience at least a short-term projects and helicoptered in solutions that have a little focus on addressing the root and structural causes of vulnerability and little focus on building long-term climate risk management we're seeing a wider range of evidence that's really showing that we think these actors have the knowledge on adaptation these international organizations but in reality a lot of it isn't responding to these structural vulnerabilities and building resilience to the uncertain climate futures that we're facing we need to give up more power next slide please despite these challenges we are seeing a growing a growing political movement on adaptation and local adaptation we have as introduced the leadership from the world's least developed countries that their least developed countries initiative for long-term adaptation and resilience that's committing to get 70% of climate finance to local adaptation by 2030 and we had the global commission on adaptation which is sunset but had a local action track that with the being led by commissioners Sheila Battelle and commissioners Dr. Mohammed Moussa that is putting the spotlight on the need for local adaptation and getting more resources to the front lines of climate change and more recently we've had the COP26 presidency Alok Sharma stating that it's essential to support more local adaptation the G7 has welcomed the eight principles which I'll go over in a second and a race to resilience with the high-level champions group are trying to integrate local adaptation across their initiatives so what are these eight principles next slide please so the eight principles these eight principles have been developed collaboratively with more than 50 organizations over the past few years and have built on a wide range of experiences and research across organizations like ourselves iid but organizations in the global south like slum dwellers international the faro commission and many of those representing the poorest and most excluded and they were launched at the climate adaptation summit in january 2021 to really advance and guide what good adaptation practice looks like and to support more local adaptation so this includes supporting devolving decision making to the lowest appropriate level so recognizing that we need to deliver more finance and support more decision making led by local actors includes addressing the structural inequalities faced by women youth children disabled displaced indigenous peoples and marginalized ethnic groups putting them at the center of adaptation decision making providing more patient and predictable funding so the funding actually aligns with local needs recognizing the transformative change takes decades not a few years that most projects are designed around we need to invest in local capabilities leaving legacies of capable institutions that can facilitate adaptation effectively not relying on international expertise and building a robust understanding of climate risk and uncertainty that fails on local traditional and generational knowledge recognizing that they had been coping with uncertainty providing solutions that work around their landscapes for generations also supporting flexible programming and learning recognizing adaptation is an inherent learning approach if we think we have the solutions right from the beginning we're widely mistaken adaptation needs to continuously learn understand what new information is available build from new solutions learn from others will recognize that climate change itself is an inherently uncertain process and we need to align funding with this need for flexibility promote small failures recognizing the system contributing to the greater good of programming I need to ensure in transparency and accountability allow local actors to see what adaptation is planned allow work to see where decision making is able to be participated in and we need more collaborative action and investment collaboration across levels of government from the regional national to the local level and across all of society with private civil society and government actors we need to aim for as collaborative responses as possible but supporting more local action the process next slide please Evan and we've had over 55 endorsements to these eight principles this this endorsing list isn't quite up to date we've had more coming in recently this includes the UK government foreign commonwealth and development office it includes international global climate fronts like adaptation from the climate investment funds we want to put pressure on the green climate fund to join this list as well so we can influence them it includes uh UN agencies like UNDP but it also includes actors from the global south and we want to grow including canary who you'll hear from today friendship from Michael Dash but we want to really grow this list we want you to join this journey with us and we really would welcome you to get in touch with ourselves IID and WRI and the other partners who have endorsed in this list if you would like to join us on this journey to collectively learn to deliver better adaptation that really works and empowers those are the front lines of climate change next slide please Evan so this dialogue that you're participating in today we're going to hear from three fantastic examples and you'll notice that some of these are also taking place not just at the local level but at the national level and this is based on some of the work that we've been collectively doing on the concept of delivery mechanisms now this isn't a new concept we might have called the delivery mechanisms but this is not new this is recognising that we do not need to invent reinvent the wheel we have institutions that exist in developing countries across the whole of society that are already capable of addressing the structural root causes of vulnerability and have capabilities that can be maximised and can support the facilitation of effective adaptation and deliver adaptation finance to the local level these exist across the government sector with the local government agencies or decentralisation systems or social protection across civil society like local grassroots organisations supporting revolving funds or supporting women led organisations to facilitate the savings of local actors they exist in the private sector they'd be commercial banks providing commercial onlending and integrating climate change into those credit lines they exist in bringing together local organisations federating building cooperatives to overcome the issue of aggregation and access a meal to negotiate better financial deals it exists with microfinance providing more appropriate finance to local organisations and enterprises we have all of this knowledge that we need to uncover and connect that can facilitate finance to the local level and crucially we need to recognise that over 80 percent of the climate funding from the green climate fund is currently going through international organisations yet we have all of these institutions within the countries and regions that we work that we should be channeling this finance through so this dialogue is really about uncovering them hearing from a few examples and being able to replicate and scale them out everybody next slide please so these dialogues and I said and this is the first Latin America and Caribbean dialogue we've had the Africa dialogue on Monday and the Asia Pacific yesterday and we will have another second October to really continue this discussion but these dialogues supported by the COP26 presidency the adaptation action coalition and the race to resilience alongside the 10 partners collectively working on it as I said all about uncovering what approaches are available to facilitate to govern the finance local led adaptation to support the scaling out replication of these approaches and really showcase to the international community that it's no longer acceptable to say that the capacity does not exist at the national and the local level to say that it's too hard to finance local led adaptation because there are hundreds of approaches available that can deliver climate finance and other sources of finance effectively to the local level and final slide please so what we've been doing with the partners across the last couple of months is to really try to try and map out to put down on paper what all these approaches are now we've only uncovered a few you'll see the Latin American regions we need to start filling this gap from our own knowledge and this is why we're running this dialogue to try and get your own knowledge and start filling this up to connect organisations together to really see well in this let's say in a certain country they're doing great things using their existing government systems we really want to replicate that within our own country to create this knowledge create this portfolio of what's possible we've already heard in Africa and Asia Pacific some inspiring examples ranging from adaptive decentralization in Kenya to social protection in India to small granting schemes in South Africa in Namibia in Micronesia and today we're going to hear from three examples I think all there but three the critical ecosystems partnership fund across the Caribbean from the corporation from Costa Rica and the Pawanka fund which is a fund operating globally but also in Latin America supporting indigenous led solutions so I think that's the end of my introduction to this journey global movement on local adaptation but I really look forward to the three speakers we have and to the conversation that we're going to be able to take place and I think there's a little bit of time for some questions if anyone would like to ask anything on the principles on the movement global adaptation or anything else that is really essential to make this local adaptation journey a reality thank you very much thank you so much Marek for that quick and clear synthesis of the principles and of the plan for this dialogue series looks like we may have lost Rebecca due to another power cut in Nairobi Rebecca are you there okay um I'll I'll take over again for the interim until until we can get Rebecca back I want to check and see if there's any questions oh Rebecca do we have you back okay um we'll carry on and hopefully Rebecca will be able to rejoin shortly um I sorry go ahead I want to see if there's any questions for for Marek in the interim um see if anyone would like to put their hand up or put a question into the chat function um we can go to that we also have another mentee exercise for for everyone to to crowdsource more expertise on locally led action is someone trying to come in please yeah please go ahead and introduce yourself and and and ask your question am I audible yes you are okay greetings from India Mysore my simple question is uh based on 1992 local agenda which was very clear on embarking community enabling to care for its environment you see there has been the foundation I had an opportunity to review a project for the Dutch embassy in India and we could notice multiple funding you know same project three directions photos and three donors identified this is very shocking but when you go to the locally led adaptation I'm very happy because the indigenous knowledge participation of the community in the process and monitoring everything is very well said but there has to be an element of inbuilt mechanism so that the local you know political dynamics is different totally changes from countries to country absolutely in India for example I can tell you we have wonderful legislations you know almost reciprocating with the unsaid in 1992 we have 73rd and 74th amendment I'm closing now we need to have we need to have a mechanism so that the local political influences are lived through that is the there is a sense of my observation yeah thank you very much yeah and it's great to have this opportunity to to learn from the Indian experience with the constitutional amendment devolving certain issues to to the ward level to well to the state level and then to the local ward and district level however there are still political influences at the local level that that need to be navigated but there are best practices for example what is happening in Mumbai, Sheila Patel there are some very good practices yeah and take for the because I am a I am a reader of IED sage publications I can make a very good best practice yeah please do put the publications and the links in the chat box for everyone to have it's great again we want to cross fertilize across the regions different different places will have very different anyway my apologies for making working time thank you go and meet Christina oh sorry thank you very much thank you for sharing that experience from from the India context in the interest of time I want to take us back to the mentimeter again to cross source more of these experiences so if you wouldn't mind going back to the to menti.com and entering 5881 6457 we have a couple more questions for you and I think I can if we can share the the menti screen to see some of the answers coming in so the first question is what are some of the other delivery mechanisms that can channel finance to facilitate locally led adaptation so we've just heard an example from India where through the government system because of the constitutional reforms channels funding down to the local level what are some other mechanisms that that are out there and unfortunately I can't share my screen so I don't know Merrick if you could put the menti screen back up so we could see the answers that are coming in I know there's a few a few answers great so we see the Kenyan devolved climate fund great an example from Kenya red plus mechanisms the GCF adaptation fund ocean conservancy it would be great to learn more about that if you could put more information in the chat about that grassroots approach would seek to employ participatory approach absolutely national forest fire protecting program that's another interesting one I don't know very much about so it'd be great to get more information about that we're really keen to to learn from the experience we know is out there so so please do share your thoughts on this ldnf range of alternatives microfinance cbf e in eba that's environmentally based adaptation super now I want to go on to the the next question that we want to crowdsource some information on and that's your thoughts on what could climate finance providers and big intermediaries do to deliver more climate finance to the local level so what what what do we want climate finance providers to do uh great some examples where there's already guidelines in un cd increase funds for local participation purposes great because that that participation needs to be supported um patient funding very much in line with the the principles there work with local leaders and organizations both the formal and the informal that's that's great often the informal is is is not done and harder to do um make it easy to apply not require audits a lot of interesting ideas here um great great to see your your thoughts please feel free to write your responses in in your language we can translate them and we want to hear everyone's thoughts here great to see these answers we are going to collate them all and we'll share them with you and use them to inform our our next dialogue series so please do continue to share your thoughts on on the mentor and I'm going to turn it back over to my colleague Rebecca great that the lights are back on where you are the the the power is really struggling and fighting with us tonight but we shall overcome um so I'm back online and thank you I saw all of those insights coming up great to see crowdsourcing at work um and everyone please do remember that the mentee link is live throughout the session so please continue to share your ideas on on both of those two questions uh even as as as the presentations are going on we will check back in later with them with the mentee responses um we're doing really well on time so I am now pleased to introduce our first local lead adaptation case study presented by Marianna Lopez who is program director at the Pawanka fund Marianna thank you so much for joining us over to you to share a bit about Pawanka's approach to supporting locally led adaptation thank you very much Rebecca thank you everybody to invite Pawanka fund fund to share our experience in this very important meeting uh Pawanka fund is an indigenous led fund uh our mission is to change the way that uh philanthropy is done traditionally Pawanka is a mosquito name uh our meaning something that is growing and strengthening so all the pictures and images that I'm going to share are from our local partners in different parts of the of the world uh next please so the Pawanka fund was created as a global indigenous led fund in September of 2014 in the framework of the UN World Conference on Indigenous People and is led by indigenous leaders from different parts of the world including North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Arctic, Pacific and Russia. Pawanka fund responds to the needs of indigenous people based on relationship of trust, networking and articulation between local and global processes and the objective of Pawanka is to train indigenous people's self-determined development through effective and strategic ground making and the objective is to revitalize traditional knowledge and learning system next please so this is just for for you to have an idea of Pawanka fund of the six years of of life uh we have more than 300 local partners in uh from almost 60 countries of the seven socio-cultural regions of the world that mean 261 grants and that reach 272 indigenous peoples in different regions of the world so in this image you can see the names of the different indigenous peoples in different parts of the world next please so Pawanka funds work with a great diversity of partners so we uh we are working with communities with indigenous communities but also with indigenous women organizations elders or youth organizations national regional and global networks indigenous with disabilities territorial governments group of pastoralists farmers nomads mountain people Icelanders fishmen readers traditional healers spiritual leaders midwives traditional authorities judge so this is to to to share that Pawanka fund is working with local partners uh in a very diverse way next please so Pawanka fund is building a holistic a holistic approach to ground making so our model of ground making is based on different steps so we have ground making mentoring learning and sharing these are our steps that we work in the ground making we have different thematic cycles uh our main issue is uh traditional knowledge revitalization uh but we also have issue a specific emergency fund during the pandemic and we still have that emergency fund and we have special cycles on different teams and one of our special cycle is on building resilience climate resilience because as all of you know indigenous people are the most affected people uh on climate change in fact so one of our special cycle is on climate resilience building and how the indigenous the revitalization of indigenous knowledge and value can really be strengthened to face this climate change impact so next please so our ground making uh are direct support to community led organization and networks we establish long term partnership our grants range from 10 000 to 50 000 dollars in a multi-year we support the recovery and the revitalization revitalization of indigenous knowledge and practices and the selection process is through cultural due diligence criteria so the criteria to select the partners that want to find use cultural criteria on that selection uh that mean uh in indigenous partners that they are contributing to the well-being of your community or uh equity between men and women so our guiding committee uh define eight cultural indicators that we use for the selection of our partners but also in the monitoring and the follow-up of the implementation of the project yes next please so our programs of mentoring learning and sharing that mean that we are not just doing a grant making we are not just sharing finance support we also accompany and support our partners in the design of the proposal this is the the mentor role that Pawanka has uh in the implementation and all the process of monitoring and evaluation we give technical assistance to our partners to fulfill the legal and administrative requirements and also with the exchange of knowledge and practices and peer-to-peer capacity building process among our partners we are building networks of solidarity and mutual support among our partners and we are generating and disseminate knowledge next please so Pawanka has a holistic approach to climate adaptation in our grant making we support more than 45 indigenous local community an organization in the seven social cultural regions that they are building collective resilience to face climate impact based on their traditional knowledge applying a holistic approach and integrating innovation so we are promoting a learning process between our partners that they are building resilience to face climate impact we implement a learning exchange we have so far seven regional meetings global climate resilience meetings where we could learn of course and share the different challenge and threats that our partners are sharing but also how they are implementing solutions and strategies to face the climate impact next so how does Pawanka support indigenous communities to build resilience and face climate impact what first recognizing the local expertise and knowledge of local communities making direct funding and partners have full control of the decisions of their project so we are we think that we support process and not project because our partners are implementing this process at a local level and we are facilitating resources to those process being flexible on requirement and reporting system selecting partners and promoting learning and sharing based on cultural criteria next establishing partnership based on trust and indigenous values supporting self-determination and indigenous governance system so Pawanka is supporting indigenous people own empowerment process it's not Pawanka that empower indigenous people we are facilitating a company indigenous people in their own empowerment processes this is a change in the paradigm of the ground making where in many traditional mechanisms is the the fund that empower or think that they can empower their partners or grantees making efforts to reach indigenous community that otherwise would not have access to resources so we support the capacity building and the strengthening of the local organization and community to be able to access funding and we advocate for the transforming power relationship in philanthropy so we work in many philanthropy networks to try to advocate for this for the power relationship and to have a more equity relationship between partners and founders so next I'm going to finish we are going to share in the in the chat a link with a very brief video where you can see the experience of many of Pawanka partners building collective resilience because indigenous people are building resilience in a collective way you will see experience from the pastoralists in in Tanzania and Kenya and how the movement is a key strategy to face the climate change impact or for example in Rapa Nui the indigenous people are building based on their traditional architecture and structures are building structures to manage and keep the water the rainwater we have other experience in Colombia about agro schools or seed banks in Cambodia and Thailand or in Russia they are implementing or they are researching a geomagnetic energy and the link with the climate prediction or for example in Alaska they are developing indigenous people are developing cultural mapping and they are linked this process with the recovery of the indigenous language so please if you have time I invite you to watch the video to see these different examples and also what resilience means for indigenous people we have shared with our partners and maybe they don't have a specific a specific word meaning resilience but resilience for indigenous peoples mean their self-governance the strengthening of their self-governance system means water land natural resources and of course to have the strength to face the talent the current talent so I want to finish here and please if you would like to make any question it's more of welcome wonderful Mariana thank you so much for that for that presentation of Paonka's work and we would look forward to that video in fact one I was going to ask for if you could give us some examples of all of these amazing projects and it was really great to hear that that long list that you just gave so thank you for that we have time for just one or two quick questions for you Mariana so here are a few that we've sourced so given the wide experience of course you've just clearly demonstrated on locally lead adaptation what would you say are the most critical challenges that you've come across in dealing with and supporting this wide variety of locally lead adaptation initiatives? Yes well our local partners are experiencing many many challenge and the most important challenge of indigenous people at local level is the extractivism and of course the global warming related to climate change but the extractivism is the the extractive industry is one of the the most challenging issue of that of our local partners and in our view is of course very difficult to deal with that but we can see how at local level our partners are implemented a holistic approach and this is very important because if we analyze the process and the strategies implemented at local level it's not just one strategy focusing in one issue it's a is holistic we the local partner are implemented strategies at maybe a regional level of advocacy at the same time that they are implemented very local local action so this a range of strategies and a fund that is flexible at Pawanka and we allow our partners to really look and to decide which of the different actions they think that is a priority I think that this is for us a key to to support the action at a local level. Thank you Mariana. Another question coming through from the audience is is going back to the the the selection process that you mentioned and you mentioned the cultural indicators for selecting partners to deliver grants to one of the questions coming through from the audience is if you could give us a bit more information on the concept of cultural due diligence and how it's applied through your grant making process. Yes the cultural due diligence is the process of selection of our partners and it's based on eight cultural indicators I can share maybe my my colleagues in the in the in the meeting can share the eight cultural indicators in the chat so you can read them these eight cultural indicators were selected by our guiding committee members these leaders indigenous leaders from different regions because Pawanka has is very we have a rich diversity because we are dealing with with a very different context and background but also we need some common elements between the different region and indigenous people so those eight cultural criteria are common elements priorities of indigenous people in the different regions so the guiding committee make collective decisions on the partners based on those indicators so they have to present and endorse a partner and they have to explain how this partner is aligned with this eight criteria cultural criteria so later the whole guiding committee members in a in a group they decide if this partner is appropriate and they are aligned with our cultural criteria so this is the first step after that if this selection process go well and the partner was is selected we have you know administrative and legal requirement of course because we are a legal entity and we need to fulfill a legal and administrative requirement but it's not the first step of selection and when the partner is selected we support the process of strengthening their organization to fulfill the legal and administrative requirement with the translation of material for example or even the certification of the organization we accompany the partners to certify to get their certification to get their legal constitution of the organization so this is like the the second step but in many cases the the selection of partners or grantees is based on technical criteria and the funds they just review the proposals in a technical way and in that case many of the funds go to NGOs, intermediate NGOs and don't reach the indigenous communities or the indigenous organization at local level and that's why Pawanka wants to change that and is trying to build this process because it's not something that we we do the form the first day we are building this cultural criteria and cultural division. Wonderful Mariana and just one final question for you to bring it back to the topic that Diana raised at the very beginning around financing I'm wondering if you could say a bit about how global climate funds and donors might shift or better be able to support indigenous people specifically and get more finance behind their initiatives so if you were to give some guidance for instance to funders or the donors seeking to replicate these kinds of approaches what what what advice would you give? Yes well our first advice is to base the relationship on trust so to start to build a relationship on trust with the indigenous communities and indigenous organization and of course recognize the local knowledge that indigenous people in their places has because recognizing the knowledge is a way to change the idea that the funders have the solution and and the implementers they are just implementers so in that way to have a direct connection and a direct relationship with indigenous communities and indigenous organization is a way to change that and not to go through intermediate NGOs that maybe they have a technical expertise and they have experts writing the reports or writing the proposal but maybe they don't have the knowledge of the local problems and the possible solution at local level so when we see indigenous people with their rich knowledge and really expertise at local level it's a way to to change that process. That's brilliant and I'm taking notes here Mariana there's a number of questions for you in the chat clearly people really appreciated your presentation so I'll ask if you can answer some of those in text in the chat while we move on to the next presentation. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Great excellent wonderful so let's move swiftly along thanks again Mariana and we'll now move into our next case study on the Critical Ecosystems Partnership Fund this case study is going to be presented by Dr Ayanka Granderson who is the Senior Technical Officer at the Caribbean Natural Resources Institute or Kanari. Ayanka the floor is yours. Sorry I just feel as if I'm using it unfortunately my slides show seems to be um not working properly so I might ask Emily if she can share my slides instead thanks okay great um so yeah so thanks for that introduction Rebecca um good day and greetings from Sunny Trinidad. It's great to see such a fantastic turnout for this event and I wanted to quickly recognize colleagues from the NDAs accredited entities and CSUs from across the Karakoram region that are part of the Caribbean Climate Finance Action Network that have joined us. Today I'm excited to present a work that we're doing under the Caribbean Program of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund or CPF for short which is a global initiative. This program provides an interesting model and food for thought I think and it is one of the ways that I see our organization Kanari contributing to the principles of locally led adaptation which we endorse back in March. Next slide so first let me start with a quick overview the CPF's Caribbean program has involved 10 years of investment providing rapid and flexible financing to civil society to protect critical ecosystems and build resilience. Next Ebonie, it specifically targets civil society organizations or CSUs for short including national NGOs and community-based organizations that co-manage protected areas and conserve biodiversity and ecosystems including groups led by and supporting women, youth, indigenous peoples and other marginalized groups. Next Kanari serves as a regional implementation team overseeing the capacity building of the CSUs and also managing the small ground facility with the CPF Secretariat being the one that has overall program implementation and managing the large rounds with our support. So in its first phase from 2010 to 2016 there were 77 grams twiddling 6.9 million US which people provided that directly benefited 68 CSUs in the region and covered 32 key biodiversity hotspots across eight countries. In its second phase from 2021 to 2026 that recently launched the program is expected to provide grams twiddling 11.8 million US to at least 60 CSUs and also cover 32 hotspots across eight countries. While the first phase did include a focus on climate change ecosystem-based adaptation is actually a key investment priority for phase two and is really central to this phase of work. So next and then the next slide, thank you. So what is it? So this is just a quick snapshot actually of how CSUs were supported and the impact they achieved through the grants in phase one. It is a lot to take in here so I'm not actually going to go through this in detail. Next slide. So what is it that makes the CPS Caribbean program business unusual and a useful model to consider when we think about scaling up locally-led adaptation? Firstly there has been a transparent and participatory process for defining the investment priorities and strategy with for example over 94 organizations from civil society and the public and private sector engaged in developing the Caribbean ecosystem profile across the region to identify key areas for investment for phase two. This transparency also extends to the review and disbursement of grants overseen by a regional advisory committee and monitoring and evaluation which is participatory and engages the grantees directly. Secondly there is a strong focus on the organizational and technical capacity building of CSOs to enable collaborative management and leadership over the long term. Recognizing as Mariana noted in the Kawanga fund that strong local organizations are needed to implement effective conservation and adaptation measures. Thirdly it is a programmatic approach that provides flexible funding via small grants, 50,000 US and under and large grants above 50,000 US which we try to tailor to need to defend CSOs. So many Caribbean CSOs are small in size and scope and really can't absorb more than small grants of 50,000 US but there are also a number of higher capacity CSOs that can manage up to half a million or a million and we cater to this diversity as part of the program. The Caribbean program also uses a homegrown intermediary which is a regional enduro that understands the national and regional context, has built trust and we have well-established relationships with CSOs across the region and has a long-term presence and a commitment to capacity building and supporting conservation adaptation and resilience building. There is also focus on improving the enabling conditions for conservation, ecosystem-based management and resilience including strengthening national policies and plans, convening roundtables with donors to improve coordination to meet investment priorities underneath the Caribbean system profile and also fostering public-private civil society partnerships. Next slide. So in terms of how the CPF Caribbean program aligns with the eight principles for locally led adaptation that Marek highlighted in Given's overview of earlier. It actually aligns quite well with principles two, three, four as well as six, seven and eight as shown on the slide. However in terms of principle one, much of the decision-making rests at the regional level with Canary Individual Advisory Committee and so it's not necessarily devolved to the national community level per state. Interestingly though, this does have benefits in terms of the economies of scale of having a regionally administered funds rather than many national funds or national intermediaries across the eight target countries. Also while there has and will continue to be efforts to better understand climate change impacts and risk to guide the adaptation work, it has not been significant to focus on climate information services to inform decisions as outlined in principle plans. Next slide. That said, the program has adopted a number of practices and leverage financing to support climate risk management and build resilience, including documenting and integrating local and indigenous knowledge and practices in assessing climate risks, vulnerabilities and potential solutions, designing and implementing ecosystem-based adaptation solutions with a focus on critical forests, mangroves and coral reefs in the region that obviously provide important ecosystem goods and services for local livelihoods and communities. Next slide. It's also mainstreaming climate change and disaster risks into management plans both at the site level, but also lining with key national funds. And it also seeks to address gender inequality and other vulnerabilities through training, CSOs for example, and gender responsive approaches, environmental and social safeguards as well as other tools. Next slide. So there has been an interesting journey from 2010 when the CPF phase one and the Caribbean was launched to phase two was just started this year and the program has evolved through learning by doing. Next slide. So some of the key lessons that I wanted to highlight were firstly the recognition of the need to invest the time and resources to effectively address the capacity gaps of civil society organizations and be responsive to their needs in order to truly realize the capacity building outcomes of the program. This is something that was underestimated in the first phase and there's actually much more funding that's going towards the capacity building program in this phase two. Also, I think it's important to note that with the grant funding even though it seems like small amounts CSOs were actually able to pilot quite innovative actions and have real impact on the ground, including developing the Caribbean's first forest carbon offset program and payments for ecosystem services for sustainable financing in the Dominican Republic under phase one. Next slide. So with the success of phase one and the now proven track record of the target CSOs, the CPF funders have actually doubled the commitment and investment for phase two, recognizing the need and potential in the region, which is exciting. However, they have been some key challenges and setbacks that are worth noting and voting to the address as we move forward. This includes the fact that it actually took a lot of time to set up and launch phase two with a five day gap between phases that was not actually planned. It was supposed to be much shorter than that. And this is in fact, I think disrupted some of the activities of the CSOs that have been expecting the phase two. It's also increased threats to biodiversity and local livelihoods due to the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic that would not have been affected into the original ecosystem profile and investment strategy when it was developed in 2017 to 2018. And so those issues I think will need to be addressed. And there's already some anecdotal evidence that with people losing their jobs and their livelihoods and the threat, there is heavier natural resource use and exploitation and they will have to look at how we're addressing that threat. And then obviously, there's also the long-term sustainability post-investment that we have to consider once this investment phase is done in 2026, how do we move beyond this and continue to provide this type of support? So I think with that, I'll end here as I think my eighth minute is probably up. So thanks very much. And if you're interested in learning more, please check out the program webpage which is listed on the slide. I can also put it in the chat and also feel free to contact me or my colleagues via email. And so with that, I'll hand back over to you Rebecca. Thank you, Anka. That was a really exciting presentation. I'm great to see you. I hope that these slides will be shared so that we can go back and pull that one slide that you had with all of the exciting impacts that you actually already beginning to see from this work. So again, similarly, we'll just ask one or two questions to you that are coming through from the audience. One question you mentioned and it's great to see that we actually can see a proven track record here as the CEPF program has been running for for some 10 years now. Can you share a bit on mechanisms that you suggest from your work with the CEPF and all of these amazing initiatives for tracking progress or monitoring progress over the long term? Well, yes, I think they're actually at the moment developing the new monitoring evaluation plan with key indicators and targets. But phase one, based on the ecosystem profile that was developed back in 2010 to guide that first phase of investment from 2011 to 2016, they would have had very clear indicators and targets so that they generally three or four strategic directions, which focus on things related to biodiversity and ecosystem services, looking at landscape level change and promoting corridors to actually allow for an ecosystem sort of based management indicators around sustainable livelihoods. Because one of the key things on the CEPF is nature for people and not nature all people and to trying to really focus on enhancing sustainable and resilient livelihoods based on the natural resources and the services that are provided within these areas. And then also there's a target around partnership building to really strengthen the work and the collaboration between civil society and other key partners in government and private sector. And so all of that's generally outlined in the profile and then used to then guide the development of a very clear sort of monitoring evaluation plan with very specific targets and indicators. And that is developed in a consultative process. As I mentioned, there were a lot of stakeholders involved in developing the profile. And so it's highly consultative and that then guides the work that canary is the regional implementation team, as well as the regional advisory committee, which I should have said is made up of national and other representatives from all of the target countries, as well as experts who provide, you know, obvious resources and services for the review and oversight of the of the funds. And that all helps with monitoring and evaluation. And so, I mean, I can always find out more from the actual project manager. I'm not the project manager for this to kind of answer that question around monitoring and evaluation. But we really look at doing a sort of participatory process for that. And that also builds in learning and adaptive management, so that we really document and track what is working and what's not to really inform us as we move along. Wonderful. Two more quick questions. Now, you mentioned the idea of homegrown intermediaries, which is quite interesting. Can you share some advice for how this model could be leveraged replicated in other contexts to support LLE? Certainly. So, I mean, one thing that we have kind of been looking at through another sort of GCF actually readiness project that we're working on with several Engies in the Karakon region is also thinking about, you know, where are these civil society organizations, particularly at the national level, that can serve that role potentially as intermediaries or implementing partners for work. And so, for example, in the work that we do, there are a number of national trusts, for example, because we work a lot into a conservation, and they are national trusts in many of the islands in the Caribbean that are very strong and actually have very clear procurement processes, have managed in the grounds of 10 million US or more. And so they're very well placed, I think, to be able to serve that role of sort of a homegrown local intermediaries. And so it's not that Canary alone is one of the only CSO that has that capacity, I think there are many others. And it's something for us to really consider when we're looking at potential intermediaries and implementing or delivery partners for work on the GCF adaptation fund, et cetera, that we look at some of those organizations as potential partners. Excellent, it would be great to say I love that. And if there was even sort of a, I'm sure there must be some sort of mapping of all of those CSOs that can really fit into that level as intermediaries. And then, of course, the last question that I want to ask, I think I just very quickly as I asked to Marianne, as well as your thoughts on finance and how might some global climate funds need to change their access criteria to allow funding to flow to many of the CSOs that you're supporting in the Caribbean? Yeah, so that's I mean, that's been, I guess, billion dollar question.  And I think the shift that we're seeing with a number of the bigger funds like the adaptation fund and the green climate fund, looking at how they can set up what they're calling enhanced direct access mechanisms, which are really on granting mechanisms that allow regional or national entities within the countries to really sort of create this sort of tailored facility that allows for the sort of small, medium, large grants to be given out that really match the capacities of different CSOs in the region and allows them to get funds for a more simplified process, because obviously a small grant, you know, for a million dollars, you're not going to require people to go through the same very detailed sort of application process and requirements, although obviously you still have to do your due diligence as Marianne are very nicely outlined what they do for plan for fun and ensure that that money is being used effectively. But I think it's also important in thinking about that financing. And I think this is where the CPF model is quite interesting, is to also remember that along with the financing, you need to have that capacity building support, because we can't just assume that all these entities are ready to just kind of rule out some of these funds. I think we need to really support them through living by doing as they're actually ruling out some of these grounds to do that effectively and actually build up their processes so they can actually go on to doing larger cracks over time and really scale up the kind of financing and work that they can do. And I think that will have real impact as we move forward. Great, so meeting CSOs where they are matching their capacities and also not overlooking the need for capacity building alongside finance. Great, Aynka, thank you so much for that presentation. We're going to move on now to our third and final case study from Funde Cooperación. And we're going to have Karolina Reyes, who's the head of project development or project department, sorry, at Funde Cooperación. Karolina, thank you for being here to share your experience on local led adaptation. Folks, kindly note that Karolina will be presenting in Spanish. So for all of our English speakers, you're invited to select interpretation at the bottom of your window to hear a translation of her presentation to English. Karolina, the floor is yours. I hope you can see my presentation. And yes, as you mentioned, I will present in Spanish. So although in the question part, I can answer in English just in case. Bueno, muchísimas gracias por la invitación realmente a presentar nuestro caso, verdad, y básicamente ha sido realmente muy provechoso las las diferentes presentaciones y realmente nos permite compartir y aprender de otros colegas que están haciendo o que están trabajando en ese empoderamiento local en temas de adaptación. Un poco de lo que somos, que es Funde Cooperación para el Desabello Sostenible. Somos una organización privada, una fundación privada en Costa Rica que trabaja en colaboración con todos los sectores realmente de la sociedad civil. Nacimos en 1994 y como una organización sin fines de lucro y estamos representadas, como les dije, por todos los sectores, sociedad civil, sector privado, academia, gobierno, etc. Y nuestro trabajo es nuestro enfoque es transformar y promover el desarrollo sostenible mediante acceso a financiamiento y permitir que estas pequeñas y medianas empresas y comunidades, organizaciones locales, pueda accesar a financiamiento para promover desarrollo sostenible y también pues acciones climáticas a nivel nacional. Nuestro enfoque sobre todo va a estas organizaciones que no tienen acceso a banca tradicional, por ejemplo, y a partir de eso pues generar capacidades y generar impacto en el país. ¿Cómo lo hacemos? Tenemos dos formas de trabajo y esa imagen representa mucho de lo que hacemos. Tenemos, por un lado, la parte de crédito, somos una microfinanciera que permite y apoya el acceso a financiamiento a aquellas organizaciones que no tienen acceso a banca tradicional y a partir de eso apoyarlas a generar transformaciones a nivel local y entonces con esto hemos apoyado más de 400, bueno, mucho más organizaciones a nivel local para generar transformaciones en el sector agropecuario, sector turístico y muchos otros sectores a nivel nacional fomentando acciones climáticas y desarrollos sostenibles. Pero también tenemos otro otro brazo de acción que es cooperación internacional que es mediante fondos, lo que llamamos fondos no reembolsables que lo que buscamos es a partir de proyectos de cooperación poder validar muchas de las de las de las acciones que tenemos que llevar adelante como país y poder de forma conjunta tanto con por un lado en la parte de proyectos pero escalar y replicar esas acciones ya después por medio de financiamiento, por medio de microfinanzas, entonces esa conexión entre la parte de cooperación y la parte de microfinanzas en nuestra organización es fundamental porque como mencionada en las colegas anteriores el tema de generación de capacidad es el tema de validación de acciones es es es es es un es realmente un punto importante que nos permite aumentar impacto, entonces a partir de eso la organización ha permitido, ha tenido la posibilidad de trabajar en básicamente todo el país. Por el lado de microfinanzas indicar que hemos creado varias líneas de financiamiento que van atendiendo las diferentes necesidades y eso lo vamos a ver que es importante que es muy importante para los ocho principios que estábamos hablando. Específicamente en la parte de cooperación internacional y uno de los de los proyectos estrella en ese potenciar el liderazgo a nivel local tenemos un financiamiento del fondo de adaptación nosotros somos el ente implementador nacional del fondo de adaptación en Costa Rica tenemos un proyecto de 10 millones de dólares que busca atender y apoyar el sector agropecuario, recurso hídrico y zona costera en adaptación. A partir de esto pues hemos tenido la posibilidad de como país se decidió que el acceso a este programa y el acceso a los recursos hiciera de una forma abierta para ellos se hizo una convocatoria abierta de proyectos de propuestas y a partir de eso tenemos más de 40 entes ejecutores nacionales que van desde lo local hasta incluso lo nacional y a partir de eso hemos tenido la posibilidad de construir en ese empoderamiento de las organizaciones para accesar a financiamiento climático eso es un poco el resumen del impacto que estamos teniendo con el programa y como les decía al final atendemos tres sectores el sector agropecuario, recurso hídrico y zona costera pero hay un tercer componente que es el de creación de capacidades y esa creación de capacidades ha sido fundamental para generar un impacto y sostenibilidad de las iniciativas o del programa a nivel nacional. El enfoque en los ocho principios y un poco entendiendo lo que hacemos como funde cooperación realmente a nivel de organización como devolvemos esa toma de decisiones verdad al nivel local. Básicamente lo hacemos de diferentes formas como vimos el programa adaptado tiene esto su proyecto de más de 40 entes ejecutores y ahí como les decía tenemos representación de asociaciones de productores hasta centros agrícolas cantonales tenemos básicamente la posibilidad de que las comunidades las personas productoras tomen la decisión y no sólo les permite planear sino implementar acciones de adaptación a nivel local pero también paralelamente generamos ese acceso a financiamiento el tema microfinanciero para nosotros es importantísimo porque a pesar de que tenemos un proyecto un programa lo importante es también generar capacidades para manejar financiamiento climático que me permita seguir avanzando en medidas de adaptación y en soluciones a partir de eso este otro brazo de microfinanzas ha permitido generar impacto en organizaciones locales y sobre todo muchos de ellos inician no teniendo acceso a banca tradicional pero el crecimiento que se genera durante varios años de apoyo por parte de nuestra organización incluso hacen que tengan algún momento acceso a banca tradicional pero parte de eso es la importancia de ese acompañamiento esa creación de capacidades y ese realmente acceso a recursos a partir de eso también este bueno el segundo principio nos habla de toda la parte cómo a nivel de estructura logramos tener o enfrentamos aspectos como inequidades verdad jóvenes mujeres niños pues básicamente a nivel de organización hemos llevado adelante políticas como organización hemos llevado adelante políticas como la política social ambiental y de género también políticas como cero tolerancia al fraude toda la parte de de que nos permite cumplir con los requisitos fiduciarios de organismos internacionales para poder accesar a financiamiento y esto es algo que transmitimos a los diferentes entres ejecutores de las diferentes organizaciones que trabajamos fortalecer fortalecer esos requerimientos es importante no sólo para nosotros como organización como punt de cooperación sino con los diferentes aliados que los que trabajamos para poder eh validar y garantizar eh la reducción de posibles inequidades que se implementen con los proyectos pero también evitar las prevenidas y también implementar acciones de mejora como organizaciones decía que también pues desde nuestro core business decirlo por decirlo así como promovemos o comentamos o buscamos eliminar ese tipo de aspectos y y por ejemplo parte de las diferentes líneas de crédito de acceso a financiamiento hemos generado una línea de crédito directa para mujeres identificada después de eh o sea una vez que identificamos esto como una barbera evidentemente para nuestra organización es importante atenderla y y dar soluciones entonces a partir de eso hemos podido crear diferentes líneas de financiamiento ajustadas y adaptadas a las necesidades al contexto de las comunidades que es lo más importante y luego también toda la parte de esa generación de capacidades que nos ha permitido llevar de la mano a las mujeres jóvenes y demás y o poblaciones indígenas a eh liderar sus sus procesos de adaptación y sus procesos de acción climática eh toda la parte de financiamiento pues evidentemente eh como les mencionaba nuestras líneas de de financiamiento son bastante adaptadas a los contextos nacionales y a los contextos locales y como e incluso en muchos de los casos por ejemplo en el sector agropecuario están ajustadas a los a las a las necesidades por cultivo por ejemplo y eso nos ha permitido esa flexibilidad es eh necesaria con el con el interés de atender verdad eh varias de las barberas que muchas veces se encuentran para accesar a financiamiento a partir de eso eh no solamente hemos creado como les dije la línea de crédito para mujeres eh mujeres en natura sino también eh generamos líneas climat de financiamiento climático como ganadería proclima y agricultura proclima que van específicamente a atender eh o a promover medidas de adaptación a partir de eso pues este este tipo de financiamiento pues se adapta las necesidades desde tenemos un máximo de 10 años de financiamiento de 10 años cuando estamos hablando de crédito 10 años eh eh hasta 10 años sin embargo eso evidentemente varía y el acompañamiento técnico y el seguimiento técnico para eh para accesar a este tipo de financiamiento es importante sobre todo porque eh queremos llevar a buen término este tipo de proyectos la la la generación de de bueno el seguimiento, monitoreo y acompañamiento técnico lo da la organización con recuperación y evidentemente el la posibilidad de trabajar con organizaciones aliadas que potencien eh los resultados es importantísimo para nosotros. Eh bueno ya hablado eh sobre todo de del tema de de de invertir local en capacidades esa conexión entre la parte de proyectos y la parte de de microfinanzas es importantísima para poder potenciar eh acciones y y escalar. Evidentemente eh trabajar con 40 organizaciones de diferentes niveles es todo un reto como como organización pero eso también nos ha permitido identificar cuáles necesidades según los sectores o según el tipo de organización son necesarias para para poder generar mayores mayores impactos. Momento eh como como trabajamos el tema el tema de de de adaptación y al final específicamente con las diferentes organizaciones ellas son las que realmente identifican las necesidades pero el tema eh el tema de toma de decisiones y el tema de planificación de las diferentes acciones climáticas van de la mano de expertos eh que que buscamos sea sea una forma de unir esfuerzos y realmente eh generar buena adaptación. A partir de eso por ejemplo hemos es hemos tenido la posibilidad de transformar eh información climática que se traduzca en el lenguaje por ejemplo de personas productoras para que estos puedan hacer una toma de decisiones mucho más adecuada eh de lo que deben hacer y esa conexión entre expertos y comunidad ha sido fundamental. A partir de eso hemos podido generar eh no solamente planes de acción a nivel local sino también hemos podido generar casos de estudio y al final ese este tema de pilotaje, ese tema de de fincas escuela, fincas modelo o incluso comunidades model o que puedan que puedan compartir en en de tú a tú con otras comunidades o con otras eh personas productoras por ejemplo eh ha sido uno de los de los de los eh aspectos eh importantes verdad que nos ha que que hemos tratado de promover.  Como hemos hecho ese in Haines direct access que mencionó a Inca que es un poco como le dice el fondo de adaptación eh hemos hemos atendido mucho de esto a través de eh aprendizaje de tipo cooperación sur-sur entendiendo cooperación sur-sur más a lo local entre comunidad y comunidad de y ese intercambio de experiencias que empoder a los beneficiarios y si le permite desarrollar soluciones basados bueno en el conocimiento de que mira aquella persona lo hizo así debería yo hacerlo así te recomiendo hacerlo de otra eh de esta manera donde los las personas experta son parte más no lideran ese intercambio sino que lo permit se permitía hacer de igual de igual a igual a partir de eso hemos tenido o hemos aprendido con las diferentes organizaciones que trabajamos y a y a y a partir de eso hemos tenido que ser basa eh hemos tenido que ser hasta cierta forma de exibles sin comprometer eh calidad o sin comprometer eh cumplimiento verdad entonces a partir de eso para nosotros ha sido necesario eh entender contextos entender vulnerabilidades entender con condiciones socioeconómicas que nos permitan un poco a adaptar eh la programación y el aprendizaje pero también nos permita a partir de eso fortalecer las instituciones o las organizaciones para llevar a cierto a cierto nivel y obviamente a nivel de financiamiento climático a nivel de microfinanza esto esto ha sido fundamental para poder eh potenciar acceso a a crédito y que sean proyectos sostenibles y idealmente financieramente viables eh a nivel de transparencia y a contability como se le dice al al set one minute carolina thank you. Al setimo principio hemos eh incluido un código ética una política social ambiental una una política de género hemos eh puesto en en funcionamiento un sistema robusto de monitoreo de eh de procedimientos de compras de evaluación de riesgos eh que cumplen con los requerimientos nacionales e internacionales y esto ha sido tradecido también a las organizaciones locales y el acompañamiento a eso ha sido importante eh eh conforme al octavo principio básicamente decirles que nuestra organización trabaja con más de quinien más de cien organizaciones solamente en el programa adaptados pero si ponemos po po po podemos contabilizar nuestro trabajo en alianzas eh pues es impresionante tenemos alianzas en todo el país y esto ha sido importante porque nos permite construir puentes entre por ejemplo emprendedores y recursos de financiamiento eh y también nos permite evidenciar el trabajo que está siendo el país a nivel nacional con solo decirles que el fondo de adaptación es un fondo de 10 millones de dólares y la contrapartida es decir el trabajo de las organizaciones a nivel local en temas de adaptación han sumado más de 6 millones de dólares eh en este trabajo y eso no lo hacemos solo fund de cooperación eso lo hacemos de una forma colaborativa eh que nos permita evidentemente accesar a más recursos pero también eh evidenciar el esfuerzo de de todas las organizaciones desde lo lo local hasta lo nacional y eso sería de mi parte muchísimas gracias y cualquier consulta mi correo en en mis contactos y los invitó a visitar nuestra página de fund de cooperación muchas gracias. Thank you Carolina that was really excellent to see um the explicit mechanisms you have for supporting gender equality and transparency and accountability. We've got one quick question for you coming through from the chat um from audience member wondering given your design and the challenges that you've raised in your presentation um if you see any way that the inclusivity of decision making on grants could be improved. Can you repeat sorry yes yes if given is given what you what you've outlined as the design for for um fund de cooperación if there are ways to improve the inclusiveness of the decision making process on how grants are distributed um yes uh well in indeed in maybe in Spanish sorry um si básicamente pues realmente hemos tenido un una gran fortaleza en una gran oportunidad en la en la parte de brindar los diferentes financiamientos sobre todo por ejemplo con el programa adaptados la inclusividad ha estado presente les decía que tenemos básicamente representación de los diferentes sectores de los cinco sectores desde sector privado a organizaciones locales no gubernamentales gobierno y demás y esto nos ha permitido evidenciar también una participación activa de los diferentes sectores en temas climáticos y las necesidades si hay mucho que mejorar y creo que la el el aprendizaje que hemos tenido del programa nos permitirá hacer eso en futuras en futuras en en futuros financiamientos pero creo que el tema de haber hecho una llamada a una convocatoria abierta de participación fue un un aspecto clave para realmente tener una representación certera y buena de los diferentes sectores y de las diferentes organizaciones a nivel de financiamiento a nivel de microfinanzas hemos tratado de ser bastante hemos tratado de ser bastante a la medida y ese a la medida ha implicado realmente adaptarnos ser residentes adaptarnos realmente bastante a las necesidades de las organizaciones locales y creo que a partir de eso es lo que ese esa adaptabilidad ha permitido a muchas organizaciones teniendo el acceso a financiamiento que tal vez en otras organizaciones o en baja tradicional lo han tenido seguimos creciendo y se o sea seguimos constantemente viendo dónde mejorar sin embargo si tenemos que cumplir y saber que el el acceso a financiamiento tiene que ser adaptable pero también tiene que ser efectivo en el sentido de que las organizaciones puedan cumplir sobre todo en tema de microfinanzas con el compromiso el compromiso adquirido entonces es un poco de equilibrio entre las dos pero evidentemente si hay hay cosas que podemos ir haciendo y nos estamos constantemente creando nuevas ideas de acceso fantastic thank you so much carlina for those insights i think you can see through the through these three presentations the clear trend is models that match the capacities of local CSOs from a financing point of view come downwards we had mariana talking about the need to allow CSOs to access funds in a more simplified process that could mean you know prioritizing due diligence and marina showed how the diligence can be expanded to be culturally appropriate for local contexts she also mentioned the need to minimize as far as possible the the the number of intermediaries that are involved and that took us directly into anchor's conversation about homegrown intermediaries that can fit the bill she talked about national trusts that for instance have clear procurement processes and have track records managing big grants that can prioritize that can be prioritized for working and and and being the middlemen to for for finance distribution and and also she talked about the need to prioritize and not overlook the important challenge of capacity development we heard about how monitoring evaluation and learning processes are also being adapted for the local context and surely i'd love to unpack that a bit more because surely there must be lessons here that are transferable to other regions and then and that's also where carlina picked up carlina was also talking about very explicit mechanisms that they've put in place at the corporation to support and ensure transparency and accountability and importantly address gender equality so thank you so much to all of the speakers i think we've got some wonderful insights here this has been such a rich and crucial discussion on lla and how we can make sure that local communities and partners on the front lines of climate impacts have access to finance that they need the decision making power that they need to invest their own adaptation priorities and build their own resilience so thank you to our speakers mariana carlina and of course thank you to the interpreters who've been very hard at work on the call and in the chat so folks our time is up for today but the conversation is certainly going to continue we hope that you can join us for our next dialogue where in october where we will have the opportunity to drill even deeper into what's needed and what we can do together to scale up finance and support for locally led adaptation we have one last menti poll that i think is going to go up quickly which you can which we invite you to complete would christina or maric like to yes there it is you can see the slides so just take yourself over to the menti cope with the menti code or to menti.com or use the scanner to to answer that last question which is about continuing to engage in the regional dialogue series on scaling up locally led adaptation while you're all answering that question i just want to echo a comment that was made by maric earlier in the conversation we do hope that your institutions will consider endorsing the principles for locally led adaptation if you've not done so already please join us in this movement anyone can sign on and we recognize that the journey to supporting locally led adaptation looks different depending on who you are as a stake as a stakeholder so my colleagues will include more information in the chat box and and later on for those who are ready to to explore what it would mean to endorse the principles with that let me just say thank you again to our speakers thank you to our interpreters thank you to everyone who is working behind the scenes from the from WRI from IID and from all of our partners we wish you a safe day a safe evening if it's like me and you're it's rounding out to late night and we do hope that you will continue to to to engage with us on this journey and participate in our next dialogue with that i'm going to to close the session and everyone take care and we will be in touch with more information thank you so much for joining take care