The Green Climate Fund has approved $120 million in climate adaptation financing to support the Asian Development Bank’s Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP), which aims to strengthen climate resilience in poor and vulnerable communities by scaling up climate adaptation investments at the local level.
As Asia and the Pacific’s climate bank, ADB aims to deliver $100 billion in cumulative climate finance from its own resources between 2019 and 2030. The CRPP will contribute to this target by supporting climate adaptation solutions at the local level, especially in the context of investments in social protection, livelihoods, and decentralization.
The CRPP is a regional program that will mobilize large-scale public investments that support community-level adaptation of poor and vulnerable people, develop national and local policies and initiatives that promote financing for community-led adaptation, and increase the meaningful participation of poor people, especially women, in resilience-related decision-making. This ensures that those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change can engage in a fair process and receive a fair share of the benefits of adaptation efforts.
“Scaling up local climate adaptation investments is essential to protecting vulnerable communities and promoting inclusive and sustainable development amid growing climate risk in Asia and the Pacific,” said ADB Vice-President for Sectors and Themes Fatima Yasmin.
The CRPP is operationalized through the Community Resilience Financing Partnership Facility (CRFPF), which includes the CRPP Trust Fund supported by the Nordic Development Fund, the French Development Agency, the United Kingdom, and the CRPP Investment Fund financed by GCF to support the implementation of local adaptation measures through downstream investments.
