What we are doing
Currently, climate finance does not flow to where it is needed most, where the impacts of climate change are most acutely felt and dealt with: the local level. Rather, the majority of adaptation funding is channelled to/via national governments, with city governments and the vulnerable communities they serve often being excluded from the financing processes. BRokering Innovation for Decentralised climate finance & Gender Equality (BRIDGE) intends to address this challenge by improving access by subnational stakeholders (municipalities and partners) to appropriate finance for locally-led and gender-responsive climate change adaptation action in Cameroon, with learnings scaled to the central Africa region and beyond. The project will address knowledge-to-action gaps by strengthening and capacitating relevant knowledge brokers and their networks in moving from talk to action, by generating and integrating the knowledge needed to unlock finance for gender-responsive and inclusive locally led adaptation. In doing so, the project aims to contribute to reducing the vulnerability of marginalized communities in Cameroon and the region, by ensuring that context- and community-appropriate interventions are implemented in ways that empower local stakeholders, especially women.
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