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COMMUNITY RESILIENCE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM TECHNICAL NOTE #3 SUMMARY

Scaling Up Local Adaptation Measures through Climate-Responsive Decentralization Processes

Background:
Climate shocks (e.g., heatwaves, sea-level rise, erratic rainfall) disproportionately affect poor and vulnerable populations due to limited adaptive capacity, access to resources, and marginalization from decision-making. These impacts manifest locally, necessitating context-specific adaptation measures at subnational levels (SNAs).

Key Objectives:

• Scale up climate adaptation at the local level to address root causes of vulnerability.
• Promote transformational changes by integrating climate adaptation into decentralized governance, ensuring equity, inclusivity, and procedural justice.

Core Concepts:

1. Climate-Responsive Decentralization:

   • Transfers decision-making and service delivery responsibilities to SNAs (e.g., provinces, cities, communes) to align governance with local contexts.
   • Aligns with principles of subsidiarity (localized service provision) and correspondence (geographical matching of governance levels).

2. Transformational Change (Systemic, Scale, Sustainability):

   • Systemic: Shifts power dynamics to redistribute resources for adaptation, empowering vulnerable groups.
   • Scale: Enables widespread adaptation beyond targeted interventions by leveraging SNA capacity and national policy frameworks.
   • Sustainability: Ensures long-term resilience through behavior changes and institutionalized climate risk management.

3. Institutional Strengthening:

   • Support SNAs in developing legal frameworks, planning tools, and budgeting systems for climate adaptation.
   • Capacity-building to enhance SNA technical and financial capabilities for adaptation investments.

4. Community Empowerment:

   • Establish community adaptation committees and accountability mechanisms (e.g., social audits) to ensure local ownership.
   • Strengthen civil society organizations to advocate for inclusive participation.

5. Funding Mechanisms:

   • Leverage fiscal decentralization, intergovernmental transfers, own-source revenue, and innovative instruments (e.g., green bonds).
   • Explore performance-based grants tied to adaptation milestones.

6. Climate Information Services:

   • Develop user-oriented climate risk tools for iterative risk management, incorporating local data and community coproduction.

Supportive Strategies:

• Investment Support: Create local funds (e.g., LoCAL) to incentivize climate adaptation priorities.
• Knowledge Solutions: Generate evidence and facilitate multistakeholder dialogues to build awareness and collaborative learning.

Conclusion:
Climate-responsive decentralization is critical for effective, equitable adaptation. The CRPP supports transformative governance reforms, institutional capacity, community participation, and innovative financing to scale local adaptation efforts across Asia and the Pacific.