CBA15 session: Challenges of Scaling Up and Financing EBA in Africa - The Role of Innovation

On 16 June 2021 from 4pm - 5:45pm (EAT), the Joint GRP-UNEP-IUCN CBA15 Session: Challenges of Scaling Up and Financing Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) in Africa - The Role of Innovation is taking place. 

This peer-to-peer session will focus on elucidating the main challenges to EbA implementation, scale-up and financing in Africa, and further discuss catalytic approaches and methods to overcome them.  

Addressing the key barriers to the uptake of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) and building resilience, especially at the community level, will require innovative and novel approaches to upscaling and financing. In that light, the session aims to bring together regional, traditional, and non-traditional networks and stakeholders — with a focus on community-based organizations — to present innovative financing solutions, identify new ones, and gather innovative and catalytic examples and lessons learned.

The discussion will be framed around the role of innovation and innovative financing solutions, including the new Global EbA Fund, launched on March 25. Practical examples will be highlighted, and a space created for critical discussions around what it means to bring innovative EbA financing solutions to fruition at the community level.

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Further information is available here: https://cba15.iied.org/atrium