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INITIATIVE FOR CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
Resilience Programme
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North Africa, as well as the Arab region and Africa more widely, include some of the most climate-vulnerable areas globally, already experiencing mounting losses and damages amid unmet adaptation and resilience needs.
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Our Programme on Resilience aims to support the perennial multidimensional resilience of communities and ecosystems in North Africa in particular, as well as in African and Arab countries generally.
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In addition to adaptation and support for loss and damage, assuring a lasting resilience to climate change and other stressors requires multidimensional approaches including delivery of key targets of UN 2030 SDGs, AU Agenda 2063, and national development goals particularly in terms of poverty, water security and food security — mainstreaming climate in development efforts and mainstreaming development in climate efforts.
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Delivery of resilience requires a step change in the means of implementation, particularly finance, and tackling the structural barriers to assuring resilience at scale, particular for the most vulnerable communities.
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Assuring a resilient future for local communities, however, also requires safeguarding planetary boundaries globally, noting the limits to adaptation.
