OUTCOME DOCUMENT Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue: Building Urban and Rural Resilience to Mobilize Efforts in Latin America to Recover from the Pandemic

The outcome document of the Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue outlines strategies to build urban and rural resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean following the COVID-19 pandemic. It emphasizes the need for a regenerative economy, nature-based solutions, and the integration of traditional knowledge with modern science to address climate-related disasters and food insecurity.

• The dialogue recommends four primary messages for High Level Champions to advance ambitions for COP 26: prioritizing a regenerative economy with flexible sustainable financing for urban and rural sectors, implementing Nature Based Solutions to prevent social collapse, focusing on the most vulnerable without duplicating work, and ensuring diversity across cultural, ethical, gender, and biodiversity dimensions.
• Latin American countries have faced significant climate-related economic losses, absorbing 53% of such losses over the last two decades, with nearly 15 million people displaced by drought. This highlights a need for proactive governance and holistic approaches to manage risks across sectors and ministries.
• Climate change is responsible for nearly 50% of food insecurity across Latin America. To 'build back better,' the document suggests four action areas: rerouting farming and rural livelihoods, de-risking value chains and farms, reducing emissions via diets and value chains, and realigning finance, policies, and innovation.
• Specific regional initiatives are cited as models for resilience: the Quito Agrifood Pact has improved access to sustainable food during the pandemic, and Fundación Avina has identified 400 innovative practices promoting circular economy and gender equality to boost local economies.
• Effective rural resilience requires a hybrid approach that combines ancestral and traditional knowledge with scientific research, such as tailored agroclimate information and early warning systems, while ensuring information is delivered in a way that is useful for small-scale family farmers.

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2020). OUTCOME DOCUMENT Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue: Building Urban and Rural Resilience to Mobilize Efforts in Latin America to Recover from the Pandemic. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome-doc_latin-america-regional-dialogue_final.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. OUTCOME DOCUMENT Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue: Building Urban and Rural Resilience to Mobilize Efforts in Latin America to Recover from the Pandemic. 2020. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome-doc_latin-america-regional-dialogue_final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2020outcome, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{OUTCOME DOCUMENT Latin America Regional Resilience Dialogue: Building Urban and Rural Resilience to Mobilize Efforts in Latin America to Recover from the Pandemic}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2020}, month = nov, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome-doc_latin-america-regional-dialogue_final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }