Are you a Local Adaptation Champion?

The GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards spotlight and reward innovative, exemplary, inspiring, and scalable locally led efforts that address the impacts of climate change and build effective climate resilience among the most vulnerable communities, sections of society, and individuals who are at the frontlines of the greatest existential threat faced by humankind.

This year, the Awards will recognize Champions in four categories:

• Food Security: This category recognizes community-led initiatives that support the design, mainstreaming, and adoption of climate-smart food production systems that are designed by and for smallholder producers and vulnerable communities along the supply chain.
• Urban Adaptation Solutions: Successful initiatives engage and benefit vulnerable urban neighborhoods, 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: We invite applications from micro, small, and medium enterprises with core business models focused on local climate adaptation initiatives, women-led businesses, tech and non-tech enterprises, locally grown corporates, or organizations promoting local climate adaptation along supply chains.
• Water Security: This category recognizes community-based initiatives that address water-related challenges and enhance local adaptation capacity through efficient water drainage, channeling, use, or conservation.?

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2024 Local Adaptation Champions Awards Q&A Session

Do you have questions about the application and selection process for the 2024 Local Adaptation Champions Awards? Join us for a live Q&A session to learn more about how you or your community can participate.

Register here to join via Zoom or watch the livestream on LinkedIn or YouTube

Meet the 2023 Champions

Read about the innovative adaptation solutions pioneered by last year's winners:

• Empowering Tanzanian women as climate change decision-makers in pastoralist societies – In northern Tanzania, the?Pastoral Women’s Council (PWC)?enhances indigenous pastoralist women’s leadership capabilities to build women’s capacity to achieve equality as decision-makers.?
• Ecotechnologies and knowledge-sharing to strengthen adaptation capacity in Mexico – In Oaxaca, Mexico,?Espacio de Encuentro de las Culturas Originarias, A.C. helps communities benefit from affordable, relevant, and innovative ecotechnologies that make them better able to adapt to extreme weather events.
• Equipping communities and local governments with the tools to finance adaptation interventions in Bangladesh – In Bangladesh, the Local Government Initiative on Climate Change (LoGIC) is enhancing communities’ ability to plan and finance local adaptation actions that suit their needs and contexts.
• Using satellite technology to combat water scarcity in India – In India,?Aumsat Technologies LLP?has innovatively harnessed satellite-based radar analytics to address the pressing issue of water scarcity exacerbated by climate change.

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