Rewarding inspiring, innovative and scalable locally-led efforts to tackle climate change and build resilience among vulnerable communities. The GCA Local Adaptation Champions 2023 will be awarded in the following categories:
- Training: This category includes innovations and initiatives that support a continuous and iterative learning process for local communities, governments and organisations. These innovations and initiatives should be based on the established needs of participants and enable inclusive local decision-making that is sustained beyond project cycles, for example by leaving an institutional legacy; facilitating skills for soft technical and institutional attributes (such as collaborative leadership, trust and network governance); and/or enabling local actors to autonomously increase their capacities and share skills over time.Examples are the institutionalisation of adaptive capacity in local organisations; support for peer-to-peer learning; and support for local experts and champions.
- Business Adaptation Solutions: This category is for small and large companies that have supported the leadership of local communities and governments in adaptation efforts, helped to address the structural inequalities faced by women, youth, children, the disabled, displaced people, indigenous peoples and marginalised ethnic groups that make them more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and/or developed and made available adaptation solutions or technologies that address local climate-related vulnerabilities.
- Women in Leadership: This category is for local, national or global women leaders who design, advocate for and/or lead climate adaptation and resilience efforts in and for local communities. Nominations are invited from, or on behalf of, women leaders at local, national or global level who have led the design or implementation of efforts that demonstrably build climate resilience - particularly of the most vulnerable - within communities.
- Innovation in Evolutionary Finance: This category is for organisations, projects, initiatives or programmes that use innovative models that provide flexible, long-term, patient and/or predictable funding for adaptation at the local level. Funding must be made available in a way that enables and supports local determination of climate challenges, priorities and solutions.
VALUE
- 20 nominees will benefit from the publicity surrounding their nomination for the award.
- Four winners will receive a cash prize of 15,000 euros and will be invited to an awards ceremony at COP000 in Dubai, which will take place from 28 November to 30 December 12.
ELIGIBILITY
- The Awards are open to any individual, organisation or group of partners around the world that has implemented or is in the process of implementing climate change adaptation/resilience interventions.
DEADLINE; 31st August 2023
To register and for more information go here
