OUTCOME DOCUMENT South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue: Fostering Adaptation and Resilience for a Post-COVID19, 1.5 Degree Future

The South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue emphasizes the need to reposition local actors, particularly women and youth, as agents of change rather than victims. It identifies systemic barriers such as top-down interventions, limited recognition of women's efforts, and inflexible financial architectures. The document advocates for decentralized finance delivery, the co-creation of knowledge, and the mobilization of diverse funding sources, including private sector investment and microfinance, to ensure climate resources reach the most vulnerable populations.

• The dialogue recommends repositioning local actors as 'agents of change' and granting them access to decision-making platforms at national, regional, and global levels to move beyond a 'narrative of victimhood'.
• Current climate interventions in South Asia are often 'top-down oriented' and developed without proper consultation with local communities, which leads to a failure in addressing actual local needs for resilience.
• Women and youth are identified as critical problem solvers and mobilizers, yet they face barriers including 'prevalent socio-cultural beliefs', poor access to technology, and a lack of formal recognition in decision-making processes.
• Financial architectures are currently described as 'inflexible', often managing resources centrally and failing to reach the most vulnerable due to poor local government capacity and a lack of decentralized delivery mechanisms.
• The document highlights successful regional examples of resilience building, including Nepal's Local Adaptation Plans for Action (LAPA), which requires 80% of funds to be disbursed at the local level, and the Climate Bridge Fund in Bangladesh.
• To scale resilience, the dialogue calls for a regulatory environment that mobilizes 'multiple, diverse and innovative sources of financing', specifically mentioning the untapped potential of private sector investment and the role of microfinance institutions (MFIs).

APA

Global Resilience Partnership (2021). OUTCOME DOCUMENT South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue: Fostering Adaptation and Resilience for a Post-COVID19, 1.5 Degree Future. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome_south-asia-regional-dialogue_final.pdf

Chicago

Global Resilience Partnership. OUTCOME DOCUMENT South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue: Fostering Adaptation and Resilience for a Post-COVID19, 1.5 Degree Future. 2021. https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome_south-asia-regional-dialogue_final.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{globalresiliencepartnership2021outcome, author = {{Global Resilience Partnership}}, title = {{OUTCOME DOCUMENT South Asia Regional Resilience Dialogue: Fostering Adaptation and Resilience for a Post-COVID19, 1.5 Degree Future}}, institution = {Global Resilience Partnership}, year = {2021}, month = sep, url = {https://www.globalresiliencepartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/outcome_south-asia-regional-dialogue_final.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }