An interview with the Director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), Saleemul Huq.

The launch of a LLA community of practice, to track progress and strengthen learning against the LLA Principles, informed by both what has worked and what has not, to derive learning from failure as well as success.

Community-led disaster risk management, combining local knowledge with satellite images and mapping technologies, is protecting villages in Pakistan from the impacts of climate change.

Robust indicators are needed to assess progress on locally led adaptation (LLA). These indicators should go beyond the traditional upward accountability and value-for-money assessments that are the focus of donor-driven projects, and instead be designed to be useful for local adaptation practitioners to improve the effectiveness of LLA.

The shift from Community Based Adaptation to Locally Led Adaptation signifies a major shift from “based” to “led”, with local people in the driver’s seat.

GCA Senior Advisor Saleemul Huq documents the history of Locally Led Adaptation.

Knowledge represents both an important determinant and indicator of adaptive capacity. In this opinion piece in Nature Climate Change, the authors argue that for climate change information to have value, actors must be able to transform that information into knowledge that allows them to modify their behavior in adaptive ways.