ADB-Q&A: Arghya Sinha Roy on the Community Resilience Partnership Program.
ENPNewswire-November 18, 2021--ADB-Q&A: Arghya Sinha Roy on the Community Resilience Partnership Program
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Release date- 17112021 - CRPP is important for poor and vulnerable populations which are disproportionately impacted by climate change and require targeted support.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the underlying drivers of vulnerabilities and the need to build resilience of the poor to multiple shocks.
CRPP focuses on addressing the issues around limited climate adaptation finance flowing to the local level to support the needs of the most vulnerable communities.
On 8 November during COP26 in Glasgow, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), in partnership with the Government of United Kingdom, and the Nordic Development Fund established the Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP). Operationalized through a financing partnership facility, the CRPP aims to support ADB's developing member countries scale up investments in climate adaptation at the community level, especially through investments that address the nexus between poverty, gender and climate.
In this Q&A, ADB Principal Climate Change Specialist Arghya Sinha Roy outlines the key priorities of the CRPP and how it can play a critical role in scaling up climate actions at the local level in Asia and the Pacific region.
Arghya Sinha Roy
Arghya Sinha Roy, ADB Principal Climate Change Specialist
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What is the CRPP and why it is important?
The CRPP is a partnership program to support ADB's developing member countries scale up investments at the local level for climate adaptation, which is really important work. It means things like supporting agricultural communities to diversify livelihoods and build new skills; engaging coastal communities in mangrove plantation to reduce the impacts of coastal hazards; and making women's groups a stronger part of decision-making processes on climate adaptation. Climate adaptation at community level is so important because the adverse impacts of climate change are manifested largely at the local level due to the local socioeconomic, ecological, institutional and governance characteristics. So, a solution needs to explicitly respond to the needs of poor and vulnerable populations.
The CRPP is important for three reasons. First, poor and vulnerable population are disproportionately impacted by climate change and require targeted support. Second, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the...
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