Lives of the Lakes: The significance of indigenous knowledge in fostering community resilience in India Knowledge-Into-Use Award recipient, Rhea Shah, takes us on a photo journey with a community in Gujarat, India, which relies on indigenous and ecological knowledge for their livelihoods. As the area urbanises, this knowledge is being lost, so Aranya Design Studio is working with students to document these traditional practices to strengthen resilience.

Shades of resilience in the Sundarbans, Bangladesh Catalytic Grants winner Afsana Afrin Esha details the adverse effects of climate change on communities in the Sundarbans, a mangrove forest located in southwestern Bangladesh. Afsana highlights the importance of holistic solutions that fully engage the local community.

The role of traditional pottery in beating rural heat stress in Maharashtra, India Prajkta Harishchandra Gaikwad from the Yashwantrao Chavan School of Social Work describes how communities in the Satara district of Maharashtra are using traditional earthen pots to keep drinking water cool during heat waves. Prajkta shares how important it is to preserve these local resilience practices to effectively combat climate change.

Opportunity: Are you a champion of Locally Led Adaptation? Help us tell your story to the world! The Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and CDKN are pleased to announce a call for stories on community-driven and locally-led adaptation. These stories will be collaboratively developed and featured in a publication to be launched at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in November 2023.

CDKN at CBA17 The 17th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA17), hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), will take place from 22-25 May in Bangkok, Thailand. CDKN will be co-hosting two sessions and hosting a marketplace stall. Find out more and register below.

Resilience Evidence Forum Registration is now open for the Resilience Evidence Forum, to be held in Cape Town in June 2023. The forum, co-hosted by USAID and the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), aims to take stock of the latest evidence on resilience and its implications for policy and programming and spark further collaborations and capacity exchange across geographic contexts, sectors and actors.

Making local action on adaptation count in the Global Stocktake How can the Global Stocktake best integrate local action on adaptation? Through interviews with researchers and practitioners, this video aims to answer that question and propose solutions to getting local action reflected in global assessments of adaptation progress.

'Resilience Perspectives': A storytelling competition for young people The Global Resilience Partnership, in collaboration with CDKN, is hosting a storytelling contest that will bring young voices with lived experiences of resilience to the forefront. Young people are encouraged to share stories that enable action and create lasting change.

#Art4Resilience: Announcing the 'Knowledge into Use' award winners In the lead-up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition launched the 'Knowledge into Use' awards to highlight innovative and creative ways of facilitating the use of resilience knowledge. 48 individuals, groups and grassroots organisations submitted ideas in the form of games, cartoons, paintings, drawings, murals, theatre, short films, exhibits of local and Indigenous knowledge and more.

COP27 Resilience Hub report out now The COP27 Resilience Hub report provides a run down of the key resilience and adaptation outcomes from COP27 and the main messages and policy takeaways from the Resilience Hub. It has been developed from inputs from more than 70 Resilience Hub sessions, the four Regional Resilience Hubs that took place in the lead up to COP27, as well as over 15,000 people across the world who participated in-person and online.

Young climate actors building resilient communities around the world In the lead up to the COP27 Resilience Hub, the Resilience Knowledge Coalition (co-led by CDKN) launched a social media contest to highlight youth action from the local, national and global level. Young people from 43 countries shared videos, photos and paintings showcasing their resilience solutions.

Adaptation Futures 2023 The call for session proposals, abstracts and posters is now open for Adaptation Futures 2023, to be held in Montreal and virtually in October 2023. AF2023 also seeks to establish one or two regional hubs during the conference as a complement and alternative to attending the conference in person in Montreal.