10th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA10)

Background:

IIED and partners such as the Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies created the CBA conferences to highlight that effective adaptation to climate change takes place at community level.

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.

Past Community-Based Adaptation (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.

"Over the years the CBA conferences have tended to focus on rural communities, so we have chosen the theme for CBA10 to be 'Enhancing resilience of urban communities' because more than half the world population is now urban," says Dr Saleemul Huq, senior fellow at IIED.

The primary aims of CBA10 will be to:

• Share and consolidate the latest developments in CBA best practice, policy and theory in different sectors and countries, in Asia and globally. Enhancing urban community resilience will be a key theme
• Capture and disseminate this knowledge and experience more broadly, to CBA10 participants and through online web coverage and conference proceedings
• Strengthen the existing network of practitioners, policymakers, planners and donors working on CBA at all levels by bringing them together at CBA10 and supporting knowledge sharing and collaboration, and
• Enhance the capacity of practitioners, governments and donors to help those most vulnerable to climate change to improve their livelihoods.

The conference will consist of a two-and-a-half field visit to CBA projects in different ecosystems across Bangladesh, such as drought, flood-prone, forest and urban areas, followed by three-and-a-half days of interactive conference discussions, with the format ranging from formal plenary and parallel sessions and high level panels, and interactive sessions for a more hands-on approach to learning.

Registration:

Registration for the conference only will be priced £700, with the conference and field trips priced £1,000. However, a £100 discount will be available as part of an early-bird rate that will be available to those who book before 31 January. Registration will close on 22 March, 2016 and spaces will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Register through the link below.