The climate and humanitarian locally-led agendas
Entry points to enhance climate adaptation and resilience financing and action
The British Red Cross is pleased to launch a policy brief, The Climate and Humanitarian Localisation Agendas: Entry Points to Enhance Climate Adaptation and Resilience Financing and Action. The brief delves into how humanitarian and climate locally-led agendas intersect and their implications for financial flows aimed at enhancing climate adaptation and resilience.
The brief provides a comprehensive analysis of barriers to accessing climate-related finance for local actors, across the climate and humanitarian systems, through the lens of locally-led approaches. It then proposes solutions to overcome these barriers and to enhance the role of local actors in climate adaptation and resilience efforts.
Key barriers across the climate and humanitarian systems
- Limited local decision-making power: Decision-making remains concentrated at global and national levels.
- Fragmented approaches: Humanitarian and climate systems often operate in silos with mismatched timeframes.
- Barriers to accessing finance: Local actors encounter bureaucratic hurdles and lack of transparency.
- Under-supported local leadership: Local leaders are often not sufficiently empowered or resourced.
- Lack of integration: There is a need for better alignment between different efforts and systems.
Policy recommendations
For funders
- Develop integrated localisation strategies
- Enhance tracking and transparency
For intermediary organisations
- Should go from manager to enabler to better support local actors
- Broaden their capacity-strengthening efforts
For both funders and intermediaries
- Pilot risk-sharing approaches
- Establish equitable cost-sharing mechanisms
If you have any questions or wish to discuss the policy brief further, please feel free to contact:
- Adeline Siffert, Senior Advisor for Humanitarian Policy on Climate: adelinesiffert@redcross.org.uk
- Alexandra Holker, Humanitarian Policy Officer: alexandraholker@redcross.org.uk