9th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation (CBA9): Measuring and enhancing effective adaptation

CBA conferences were created 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 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.

Aims and objectives of CBA9

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.

"Adaptation around the world, including Community-Based Adaptation (CBA), is moving from planning to implementation," says Dr Saleemul Huq, senior fellow at IIED. "With this shift well under way, we need to find ways to make adaptation more effective as well as more sophisticated ways to measure the impact of adaptation projects."

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.

Field visits

The field visits will last three days, departing Nairobi from the Safari Park Hotel early in the morning on April 24. You must be in Nairobi the night before in order to attend the briefing dinner on the evening of the 23rd at the Safari Park Hotel where you will be able to register and receive your delegate pack.

Further information will be provided once full details of the field visits become available (February), at which point those who have registered will be able to choose their preferred site on a first-come, first-served basis.

Conference

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.

Details on the programme and presentations will be made available at a later date. The conference will close at midday on April 30 with a closing ceremony. 

More details about the conference and how to register are available here.