CBA14 day 4 – skill share: Remedying harm from adaptation projects
Channel: IIED
Date: 2020-12-18

This is a recording of a skill share session from the 14th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA14), which took place online from 21-25 September 2020.

This session provided a general overview of how an individual, group or community adversely impacted by an adaptation project can seek remedies for their grievances from accountability mechanisms of donor or implementing agencies.

This was illustrated with the specific example of the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The IRM also shared a case example of a self-initiated inquiry that it did in relation to a GCF project in Peru, and how that inquiry was triggered by articles written by civil society organisations, and in particular by Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education). 

Tebtebba talked about its involvement directly and discussed what the GCF Indigenous Peoples Policy says in terms of grievances and redress.

For more information about CBA14, follow this link: www.iied.org/cba14