As climate finance increasingly prioritises investments that deliver visible adaptation outcomes, there is growing recognition that infrastructure and technologies alone do not create resilience. This session will examine the enabling conditions required for adaptation investments to succeed, including governance, institutions, finance, social cohesion and local ownership. Drawing on IWMI's experience in the MENA region and the Jahez programme in Jordan targeting refugee -hosting communities, panellists will explore how multi-stakeholder co design can strengthen both the "hardware" and "software" of resilience. Discussions will focus on de-risking climate investments, building local capacity to sustain adaptation solutions, and creating pathways that link national strategies with community-level resilience outcomes. The session will highlight practical lessons on how governments, donors and financial institutions can scale resilient systems that endure long after investments end.
November 19, 15:00 - November 28, 16:30
The session directly supports COP31 priorities on adaptation, climate finance, technology development and transfer, and implementation, focusing on how to translate climate priorities into locally owned and implementable investments that strengthen local resilience capacities. Water provides a critical entry point, linking adaptation across agriculture, food security, livelihoods, energy, health and ecosystems. The session will explore how co designed interventions across stakeholders to identify and implement cost affected locally appropriate solutions can leverage co investments and generate practical messages on improving access to adaptation finance, connecting national priorities and NDCs/NAPs By bringing together governments, communities, innovators, implementing agencies, researchers, financial institutions and climate funds, the session will contribute to COP31’s focus on turning climate commitments into practical implementation and impact at scale.
