About BASE

Communities in the Global South are in the frontline of the impacts of climate change and, at the same time, play a crucial role in preserving traditional knowledge and generating innovative solutions for reducing emissions and building resilience. However, despite their significance, locally led projects face significant challenges in accessing climate funds. One such obstacle involves the requirement of developing a “climate evidence”. A climate evidence refers to the narrative and evidence gathered to demonstrate that a project aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to the effects of climate change, and/or address the losses and damages caused by it, including a local development perspective. Often, justifying the extent to which a proposal will effectively address climate change requires many studies and is highly time and resource-consuming, becoming an obstacle for funds to quickly and effectively reaching those who need it most to drive the transition.

To tackle this challenge, BASE (Building Approaches to fund local Solutions with climate Evidence) was launched to promote more and better access to climate finance for local communities, by testing alternative approaches to develop the climate evidence of projects with more speed, simplicity and in a manner that resonates with communities. This is a collaborative Initiative coordinated by Fundación Avina, as part of its Resilience and Climate Transition Program, and integrated by a diverse plenary of partners and aligned initiatives.

The Initiative’s main goal is to generate evidence, through the implementation of a diverse range of grantmaking schemes, on how the development of the climate evidence of projects can be simplified and serve as a proof-of-concept of alternative, community-led approaches to labelling this type of finance as ‘climate finance’ and then take these learnings to advocate in the climate funding landscape. Each grantmaking scheme (or track) will be a specific call to “test” a particular approach to develop a climate evidence, that might also vary in focusing on different sectors or areas.

BASE addresses the climate evidence challenge pragmatically and with a view toward systemic change, by convening local organizations, funders, knowledge organizations, and intermediaries to build solutions through a strategy built on three pillars: FUNDING, LEARNING, AND SCALE.

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