Community Resilience Fund: driving climate action from the ground up

This is a case study created for a series of dialogues on scaling up locally-led adaptation, which are presented by the Adaptation Action Coalition, in association with the UN High-Level Champions and Race to Resilience.

This case study on the Community Resilience Fund was created by the Huairou Commission.

At the COP26 Presidency’s Climate and Development Ministerial, the world’s most vulnerable countries stated loud and clear the need for radical improvements in their access to climate finance, and the need to increase support for locally led adaptation. Similar calls have also come through the Climate Vulnerable Forum and G7 meetings.

The COP26 presidency is pressing donors to improve and scale up their adaptation commitments, including support to locally-led adaptation and access to finance. Locally-led adaptation is a central focus for the incoming presidency, and in the lead up to COP, donors will convene to discuss how to improve adaptation financing at the local level.

The dialogues offer a chance for countries and non-state actors to learn from each other and showcase the real potential for locally-led adaptation via direct and enhanced direct access models.