The NAP Global Network's webinar explored ways for countries to mobilize domestic public finance in order to help develop and implement their NAP processes.
The BRACED report titled, ‘Financial services for resilience: how to assess the impacts?', addresses the implementation of innovative methodologies to measure the effect of financial services on people's resilience in Niger.
20 September 2017: The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network has hosted a webinar on domestic finance for the NAP process. The Building Resilience and Adaptation to Climate Extremes and Disasters (BRACED) programme published a report on financial services for resilience in Niger.
The NAP Global Network’s webinar took place on 20 September 2017. It explored ways for countries to mobilize domestic public finance in order to help develop and implement their NAP processes. Participants addressed, inter alia: opportunities for financing the NAP process; the role of domestic public finance for the NAP process; and Colombia’s experience with domestic public finance.
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) hosts the Network’s Secretariat. [Domestic Finance for the NAP Process Webinar]
BRACED aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people across the Sahel, East Africa and Asia against climate extremes and disasters.
The BRACED report titled, ‘Financial services for resilience: how to assess the impacts?’, explores the implementation of innovative methodologies to measure the effect of financial services on people’s resilience in Niger.
The report finds that support mechanisms, including access to adequate financial resources, are important for individuals and communities to better prepare for, and cope with, climate extremes. The publication highlights village savings and loan associations (VSLAs) as a means to support rural communities, address livelihood shocks and strengthen social capital, as well as their contribution to climate resilience.
Funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID), BRACED aims to build the resilience of up to 5 million vulnerable people across the Sahel, East Africa and Asia against climate extremes and disasters. [Financial Services for Resilience: How to Assess the Impacts?] [ODI Press Release] [WeADAPT Press Release]
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