Making finance flow for locally-led action in the Decade of Action
Channel: IIED
Date: 2022-05-30

This online event, part of the Stockholm+50 conference, saw the launch of a report on finance supporting locally-led action for people, nature and climate.

Co-hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) on 25 May 2022, the report proposes recommendations for governments, multilateral development banks and global funds to drive change through support for local level decision-making over resources and finance.

Speakers from the global South, research institutes and the finance sector shared their lived experience, presented research, identified the challenges and built momentum for the uptake of critical solutions.

The speakers:

0:00 Introduction
1:17 Ebony Holland (co-moderator), senior researcher and nature-climate policy lead for the Natural Resources and Climate Change research groups at IIED
7:42 Ulrika Åkesson, lead policy specialist for environment and climate change at Sida 
16:33 Ma Estrella “Esther” Penunia,  secretary general for the Asian Farmers’ Association for Sustainable Rural Development (AFA)
23:24 Simangele Msweli, senior manager of the Youth Leadership Program at the Africa Wildlife Foundation
32:05 Terence Hay-Edie, programme advisor (biodiversity) for the Small Grants Programme, Global Environment Facility
37:53 Dora N. Cudjoe, senior operations officer and programme coordinator, stakeholder engagement, Climate Investment Funds
48:57 Omer van Renterghem, senior policy adviser for water and environment in the Inclusive Green Growth Department (IGG) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands.

More information: https://www.iied.org/making-finance-flow-for-locally-led-action-decade-action