On 1-4 April 2019, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is hosting the 13th international conference on Community-Based Adaptation on Climate Change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
CBA13 will bring together practitioners, grassroots representatives, local and national government planners, policymakers and donors working at all levels and scales to discuss how we can drive ambition for a climate-resilient future.
The conference will take place on 1-4 April 2019 in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, and will offer four days of discussion and debates, skill shares and knowledge exchanges.
Aims
The CBA conference series aims to bring together a community of practitioners who are collectively seeking to reimagine solutions that enable transformative outcomes through the agency of communities driving climate action.
The conferences offer an innovative and interactive space, enabling the CBA network to promote climate action through:
- Inclusive, gender-transformative and meaningful engagement
- Sharing and collaborating around good practice and challenging assumptions
- Drawing on evidence to inform the scalability of effective approaches, and
- Influencing and shaping decision-making processes.
Themes
The conference will have three key themes:
- Climate finance: what are the mechanisms and enabling environments needed for climate finance to flow at scale to support effective adaptation? This interview further discusses what's in store.
- Adaptation technology: how can long-term and existing, as well as the wave of new and emerging, technologies and practices be harnessed to build resilience? This interview gives a taster of the issues participants will be tackling.
- Policy engagement: how can the wealth of learning generated through widespread experiences of local climate action best inform the policies of the most vulnerable countries?
We'll have a mix of sessions in different formats, including:
- Marketplace sessions
- Skill share sessions
- Open space sessions for 'Burning issues' and 'Big ideas'
- Thematic sessions
- Dragons' Den sessions
Parts of the programme will be 'crowd sourced': delegates will have the opportunity to submit session proposals when they register.