Project Background 

The impacts of global climate change threaten societies, economies and ecosystems, threatening future resilience; and local communities are at the frontline dealing, facilitating and implementing climate change adaptation measures. Hence in order to accumulate and learn from resilience-building approaches in tackling the impacts of losses and damages, ICCCAD together with GRP have developed the Voices from the Frontlines series depicting stories of losses and damages as well as stories of resilience.

Project Objective

The objective of the project is to accumulate, learn from and disseminate loss and damage stories to build evidence base for the deeper shifts needed to build community resilience in the face of climate change.

->Provide testimonies of communities’ resilience and leadership in the face of climate change impacts
->The Voices from the Frontline blog series have been tested and widely recognized as an effective tool to capture local stories.
->Direct and in-depth virtual interview-based stories helps in accumulating immediate community responses, best practices and important lessons
->Avenue for peer learning and global outreach.
->Such locally driven data is pertinent to strengthen the evidence base of on the ground realities and actions need, which can further support decision making at the global level.