The GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards highlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring and scalable locally-led efforts that address the impacts of climate change. These awards build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sectors of society and individuals who are on the frontline of the greatest existential threat facing humanity.
AWARD CATEGORIES 2024
Water Security This category recognises local and community initiatives that address water-related challenges and improve local adaptive capacity through efficient water drainage, channelling, use or conservation. Solutions must be locally designed, accessible and adapted to the needs of the most vulnerable groups in the community, ensuring equitable management of water resources for all.
Food safety This category recognises local community-led initiatives that support the design, integration and adoption of climate-smart food production systems. These systems are designed by and for small-scale producers and vulnerable communities along the supply chain. Initiatives must demonstrate contributions to ensuring continuous, equitable and sustainable access to diverse and nutritious food for poor, vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.
Urban Adaptation Solutions This category recognises locally-led initiatives to adapt to climate change in urban areas. Successful initiatives involve and benefit vulnerable urban neighbourhoods, community leaders and city governments through collaborative design, integration into city adaptation plans and a long-term vision to continuously increase adaptive capacity over time.
Local Entrepreneurship This category recognises local community-based businesses that:
- Develop or adopt adaptation solutions or technologies that address local climate-related vulnerabilities.
- Support local communities and governments in adaptation efforts.
- Address the structural inequalities faced by women, young people, children, the disabled, displaced people, indigenous peoples and marginalised ethnic groups.
Enrolment information We invite entries from:
- Groups led by women
- Non-governmental organisations (local, national and international)
- Universities, research institutes and think tanks
- Governments
- Entrepreneurship support organisations
- Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)
- Technology and non-technology companies
- Locally grown companies or organisations that promote local climate adaptation along supply chains
Eligibility criteria Only entries that fulfil all five of the following criteria will be considered for the 2024 competition:
- The intervention is being implemented and the results are demonstrable.
- The intervention addresses adaptation to the impact of climate change or builds resilience against climate impacts.
- The intervention targets the most vulnerable communities, sectors of society and individuals suffering from climate impacts.
- The intervention is locally led, adhering to one or more Locally Led Adaptation Principles.
Applications open from 1 July to 11 August 2024.
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