On Wednesday, June 26th, BASE convened partners, grantees and researchers from the first grant scheme and organizations working on similar agendas in a significant gathering aimed at reflection and sharing lessons learned after one year of implementing solutions across the Global South while refining their climate rationale. The focus was set on three assumptions used to guide BASE’s inaugural track.
The event was structured around three main session, each corresponding to key hypotheses tested during this first grant scheme:
- Internationally accepted science has advanced to the point where IPCC reports describe climate risks and impacts at regional and sectoral levels in sufficient detail to infer the challenges faced at the local level. The most recent climate science will be used to develop plausible narratives of how existing risks might change in the future due to climate change.
- Trust and flexible funder-recipient relationships are vital in the climate change arena to ensure adaptive climate rationality.
- The climate rationale for proposals can be greatly optimized by incorporating locally available information and allowing more flexibility in how applicants share information. There is an opportunity to strengthen local climate change information during the project implementation period.
To conclude the event, the final session was dedicated to discussing the role of locally led adaptation (LLA) principles, a central theme in the execution of the track.
Watch the recording of this valuable meeting here:
