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In Datinakhali, Bangladesh, frequent extreme weather events like cyclones and flash floods have trapped residents in a debt cycle with loan sharks. To counter this, World Vision established the Samabay Samiti, a cooperative fund committee where female members save weekly to access low-interest microloans and receive business training. The initiative has enabled members, such as Swapna Parvin, to establish diversified livelihoods in cosmetics and build household assets, leading to the program's expansion and a trial collaboration with BRAC.

In Banishanta village, Khulna district, farmers have formed the Banishanta Weather Club to combat the impacts of cyclones, floods, and high salinity. Supported by the NGO Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) and the Delta Research Initiative (DRI), the community uses digital tools, smartphone apps, and a Facebook messenger group called 'Banishanta Climate School' to access weather forecasts and agro-advisories. This locally led adaptation approach allows farmers to make informed decisions on sowing and irrigation, reducing the economic costs of climatic disasters and improving livelihoods for smallholder farmers and the Banojibi community.

The community of Kamarkhali, located along the Someshwari River in Bangladesh, faced accelerating riverbank erosion that destroyed homes and culturally significant sites. After unsuccessful attempts to build their own bamboo and sandbag embankments, the community formed the Kamarkhali Someshwari Riverbank Erosion Resistance Committee and engaged in non-violent civil resistance, including human chains and social media campaigns. These efforts eventually pressured the Bangladesh Water Development Board to construct a sandbag embankment between February and April 2021. While this protected the village during record-breaking floods in June 2022, residents argue that only a concrete or stone embankment will provide long-term security and that government-scaled sand mining in the river continues to exacerbate erosion.

The document details how the local NGO BEDS transitioned women in the Sundarbans from using mangrove seeds as cooking fuel to establishing community-led nurseries. This shift has provided economic empowerment for women, such as Nomita Mondol, and increased mangrove coverage in the region to combat climate risks like cyclones and salinity.

The analysis reveals that only 24% of the 67 sampled countries demonstrated a climate risk responsive recovery. A significant paradox was identified: a country's income level was a stronger determinant of whether it used COVID-19 funds for adaptation than its actual climate vulnerability. High-income countries were more likely to integrate physical climate risks into their recovery plans, while the most vulnerable countries were the least likely to do so, with only Kenya and Vanuatu among the 20 most vulnerable countries approving explicit adaptation actions. Most responsive measures focused on water resources management, disaster prevention, infrastructure, and nature-based solutions, primarily targeting drought and flooding.

The Resilience Evidence Forum 2023 Synthesis Report outlines a multi-scalar approach to building resilience, focusing on people, communities, urban systems, socio-ecological systems, and market systems. It emphasizes the transition from top-down measurement to co-produced evidence that integrates local and Indigenous knowledge with scientific data. The report identifies critical gaps in funding for climate resilience—noting that less than $50 billion is spent annually against needs of $160-340 billion—and advocates for gender-transformative approaches, integrated health and nutrition systems, and the use of mixed-methods to capture transformative, long-term outcomes rather than just short-term recovery.

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) reports on its 2022 efforts to bridge funding and measurement gaps in climate resilience. Key activities include the Innovative Finance for Resilience initiative in Uganda and Sudan, the RAIN Challenge for agriculture in East Africa, and the launch of the PREPARE Call to Action for the private sector at COP27. The GRP also coordinated the COP Resilience Hub, which engaged 15,000 people, and advanced South-to-South Resilience Academies focusing on food systems in southern Africa and Loss and Damage in South Asia.

This briefing provides an overview of indicator-based tools used to assess ocean risks and vulnerabilities, based on a systematic review of grey literature and peer-reviewed articles. It highlights a tendency to focus on climate change over other risks and notes significant data gaps in specific developing regions.

The Twezimbe Women’s Group in Uganda's Kalungu district adopted a solar power irrigation system to mitigate the impact of drought and unpredictable rainfall on their horticultural projects. Despite initial losses and challenges with land access and pests, the group diversified their crops and established a year-round production cycle to support their catering business. The group now advocates for increased financial support, capacity building for value addition, and gender-sensitive adaptation strategies.

The Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) challenge, a partnership between the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) and Shockwave Foundation, supports agricultural entrepreneurs in East Africa. The program identifies seed-level innovative ideas that build resilience and protect biodiversity, providing winners with mentoring, leadership training, and investment brokering to make their projects 'funding-ready'. Between 6 and 10 winners will be selected based on criteria including impact, innovation, equity, and profitability, receiving support from March to December 2023 and potential next-stage funding for implementation and scaling.

The document details how Lucy Lemashisha and the Rural Women Network (RWN) established the Climate Resilience and Learning Center in Kajiado County, Kenya, to combat the effects of recurrent drought and famine on the Maasai community. By promoting climate-smart agriculture, rainwater harvesting, and alternative income sources, the initiative has improved food security and shifted patriarchal power dynamics, enabling women to take leadership roles in climate justice and local governance.

The document details the experience of the Mashujaa group, a collective of young women in Uhamaka, Tanzania, who transitioned from sunflower and maize cultivation to beekeeping after erratic rainfall patterns led to repeated crop failures. With technical support from SEMA and SNV, the group implemented modern beehives, increasing honey production from 5-7 litres per hive to 20 litres. Despite initial community opposition based on gender stereotypes, the initiative has improved the economic and social status of the members, providing a model for locally-led adaptation and the importance of climate-smart technology for smallholder farmers.

The report highlights the urgent need for food systems transformation in southern Africa due to climate change, population growth, and high rates of malnutrition. It reviews key 2021 global and regional events—including the UN Food Systems Summit, the AGRF Summit, and COP26—to identify national entry points for action across southern African states, emphasizing the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus and the role of youth and ecosystem restoration.

The report outlines a framework for food systems transformation in southern Africa, emphasizing the need for a water-energy-food (WEF) nexus approach, the integration of indigenous knowledge, and the empowerment of women and youth. It identifies key leverage points for change, such as governance reform, sustainable rural livelihoods, and the adoption of climate-smart agriculture. The document recommends shifting from siloed sectoral approaches to systemic, multi-sectoral governance and suggests using 'futuring' methodologies to identify 'Seeds of Change'—small-scale innovative projects that can be upscaled to build regional resilience.

The document highlights the climate vulnerability of the Singida region in Tanzania, where smallholder farmers face low productivity due to unreliable rainfall and pests. It details the success of Amani Saidi Mwangu and the 'Muungano Group', who adopted climate-smart agriculture (CSA) and irrigation after receiving training from Sustainable Environment Management Action (SEMA) and the International Labour Organization (ILO), and a 3,000,000 Tanzanian shilling loan. These interventions enabled the use of drought-tolerant, early-maturing seed varieties (such as Bombay red and Red creole), leading to increased yields of tomatoes and onions and expanded market reach to Uganda and Kenya.

The document profiles Nasreen Al-Amin and her non-profit, Surge Africa, focusing on the Jeji Restoration project in Kumbo, Kano State. This initiative employs nature-based solutions, specifically tree plantation, to restore degraded land and provide sustainable livelihoods for marginalised communities, including those affected by war and environmental conflicts. The project emphasizes community ownership, the use of local languages for training, and the integration of income generation with environmental restoration.

The document profiles Esther Mirembe and the Namungona Women Empowerment Initiative, a savings group in a Kampala informal settlement. It details how the group provides pro-poor loans to women, converts waste from blocked drains into charcoal, and diversified into soap and mask production during the COVID-19 pandemic. The case study highlights the role of the National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda and Slum Dwellers International in promoting locally-led adaptation and resilience against climate change and disasters.

The guide defines resilience as the ability to manage change and develop through the interplay of people, communities, ecosystems, and economies. It outlines five steps for changemakers: deeply understanding the problem to ensure solutions fit, treating failure as a learning opportunity to build trust, distinguishing between the 'idea' (content) and its application (process), balancing reactive and reflective actions, and focusing on interpersonal roles and engagement.

The COP27 Resilience Hub served as a physical and virtual space to accelerate ambition and investment in climate resilience, representing over 1,500 non-state actors. The report identifies five cross-cutting messages, emphasizing that scaling adaptation is a prerequisite for containing Loss and Damage and that locally-led adaptation (LLA) requires radical collaboration. The document details thematic analysis across nine areas—including finance, food, water, and health—and highlights the role of Regional Resilience Hubs in amplifying under-represented voices from Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The report examines the systemic risks posed by the 'new planetary reality' of the Anthropocene, where climate instability and biosphere depletion create non-linear financial risks. It argues that current ESG metrics and macroeconomic indicators (like GDP) are insufficient because they fail to account for planetary boundaries and natural capital. The authors highlight the disproportionate responsibility of high-income countries for ecological breakdown and the role of 'keystone actors'—including transnational corporations and 'Big Three' asset managers (BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street)—in driving or mitigating these risks. The document proposes a shift toward a precautionary approach to financial regulation, the adoption of impact accounting, and the use of social norm shifts to accelerate a just transition.