2. The ‘A’ Factor: accountability for locally-led adaptation
Channel: IIED
Date: 2021-05-20

At the start of 2021, 40 governments and leading organisations endorsed eight principles for locally led adaptation. As the number of endorsers grows, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has launched an innovative podcast mini-series to explore what this commitment will mean in practice.

The second episode of the three-part series, ‘From principles to practice: commitments from donor organisations’, is modelled on popular UK television programme 'The X Factor'.

Hosted by Aditya Bahadur, four global practitioners and researchers from principles-endorsing organisations spell out what they propose to do to enable local people to be in the driving seat of climate adaptation decision-making. Then two expert ‘judges’ hold them to account...

More details: https://www.iied.org/locally-led-adaptation-time-for-action