Are you, or your community, leading from the frontlines in the fight against climate change?

Apply now! GCA Local Adaptation Champions Awards

The Global Center on Adaptation's Local Adaptation Champions Awards #LLAChampions 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, after the success of 2022, we are relaunching the Awards with new categories as we expand our reach and continue to highlight exceptional locally led efforts around the world.?

The Awards are open to any individual, organization, or group of partners worldwide, who have implemented or are in the process of implementing climate change adaptation or resilience interventions.

Twenty nominees will benefit from publicity around their nomination for the Awards.

Four winners will receive a cash prize of €15,000 and be invited to an Award Ceremony at COP28 in Dubai, which will take place from 30th November to 12th December 2023.

The call for applications will be open from 1st to 31st August 2023.

Find out more and apply here

Meet the 2022 Local Adaptation Champions

• Rangamati Hill District Council supports the climate-vulnerable communities in Bangladesh in building resilience to droughts, landslides and floods with their community-led solar water pump
• Adaptation Consortium?designed a County Climate Change Fund to support communities in Kenya to create, access, and use climate finance from a variety of sources in order to reduce their vulnerability to climate change.
• Community Development & Advocacy Forum Nepal are rehabilitating land, conserving water, and managing the river system using techniques designed and developed with the community.
• Swayam Shikshan Prayog created the?“one-acre” Climate Resilient Farming model: women borrow a parcel of land from their families, to cultivate food crops for their families instead of only water-intensive cash crops.

Did you know?

More than 80 entities including governments and international organizations have pledged to implement the Principles for Locally Led Adaptation

Interested in learning more?

The Global Hub on Locally Led Adaptation (LLA), a platform to inform, connect and inspire local communities and LLA practitioners around the world with the latest knowledge and solutions for LLA.

For more?LLA Stories?and?Research and Analysis?explore the?GCA Global Hub on LLA.