9th Conference on community-based adaptation to climate change

IIED and partners such as BCAS created the CBA conferences to highlight that effective adaptation to climate change takes place at community level. Past CBA conferences have focused on scaling up best practice, ensuring a scientific basis to action, communicating and mainstreaming CBA, and ensuring adaptation funding reaches community level, this year's conference theme is 'Measuring and enhancing effective adaptation'.

A bottom-up approach to adaptation enables local knowledge and practices to be shared among communities, academics and project managers so that those most exposed to the impacts of climate change are better able to adapt. CBA9 will highlight that there are different ways of measuring the success of community-based adaptation, and underline that effective evaluation considers the perspective of both the donor as well as recipients of adaptation funding.

CBA9 will begin with optional field visits scheduled for 24-26 April, followed by the conference at the Safari Park Hotel from 27-30 April.

The conference will run for three-and-a-half days and will include a combination of high-level speaker panels, thematic plenary and parallel sessions with group discussions, short film sessions and interactive sessions for those who enjoy a more hands-on approach to learning. Poster presentations will share project and programme activities related to the conference theme.