ADB Launches Program to Strengthen Community Resilience in Asia and Pacific.
ENPNewswire-November 9, 2021--ADB Launches Program to Strengthen Community Resilience in Asia and Pacific
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Release date- 08112021 - The Community Resilience Partnership Program will support local climate adaptation measures that are aligned with ADB's developing member countries' respective nationally determined contributions, adaptation plans, and disaster risk reduction plans, and focus on poor and vulnerable populations.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) joined today at COP26 with the Government of the United Kingdom and the Nordic Development Fund (NDF) to launch the Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP), which aims to strengthen climate resilience for local communities, including for women and girls, by scaling up climate adaptation measures in Asia and the Pacific.
The CRPP will support local climate adaptation measures that are aligned with ADB's developing member countries' (DMCs) respective nationally determined contributions, adaptation plans, and disaster risk reduction plans, and focus on poor and vulnerable populations.
The Government of the United Kingdom is providing GBP45 million (around $61 million) and the NDF EUR6 million (around $6.9 million).
'Even before the COVID-19 pandemic affected economies globally, the poor and vulnerable were already the hardest hit by climate change,' said ADB Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development Bambang Susantono. 'As Asia and the Pacific's climate bank, ADB recognizes that it is critical to strengthen climate policies and plans in support of local investments in climate adaptation that directly meet the priorities of the poor and vulnerable. The CRPP is critical for helping countries scale up these investments at the local level and will support ADB to achieve our climate adaptation ambitions.'
'Locally led adaptation is crucial to building resilience across the poorest and most climate-vulnerable communities,' said UK International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 Presidency and Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan. 'That's why the UK is committing GBP45 million of funding to this program, which will play a vital role in ensuring communities, and in particular women, get access to the finance and support they need to build resilience in their communities and advance gender equality, such as by strengthening climate-resilient housing initiatives and...
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