Environmental pressures—including land degradation, pollution, and climate change—have significantly constrained the capacity of natural watersheds in Latin America to provide clean water, leaving human populations increasingly vulnerable. To address these challenges, the CDKN Latin America (LATAM) regional programme, coordinated by Fundación Futuro Latinoamericano (FFLA), supports the Andean Water Funds Platform. This multi-actor governance space now brings together 12 Water Funds across Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

This project supports the Government of Kenya to develop a participatory Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting and Learning (MERL) tool to improve the tracking of climate investments, outcomes, and impacts. It addresses gaps in existing monitoring systems that limit the measurement of climate action effectiveness, climate finance mobilisation, project sustainability, and reporting. Led by the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry (MECCF) with support from CDKN Kenya and pilot counties, the tool is being co-created to strengthen evidence-based climate planning and accountability.

CDKN’s partnership with ICLEI South Asia strengthens urban climate resilience in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka by supporting local governments and communities to develop inclusive climate action plans, build capacity, and implement locally led adaptation. The programme focuses on gender equity and social inclusion (GESI), ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA), and practical interventions to enhance resilience and improve livelihoods in vulnerable urban areas.

The risks faced by people and ecosystems in a changing climate vary from one locality to another. It’s partly a question of physical geography and partly a question of the human factors – social, economic, cultural – that make people resilient or vulnerable to climate hazards. That is why adaptation should be locally led. Adaptation is most effective when it is centred on people’s human rights and driven by the knowledge and needs that local people, especially the most marginalised groups, bring to the table.

CDKN’s Finance for Resilience priority area promotes flexible, inclusive and locally led financing systems that enable communities, institutions, and ecosystems to prepare for, adapt to, and transform in the face of climate risks.  

The GESI priority area focuses on empowering those most affected by climate change, including women, girls, youth, Indigenous communities, people living with disabilities (PLWD), and other disadvantaged groups.

This project strengthens Ghana’s climate adaptation policies by engaging diverse stakeholders, including youth and regional leaders, to ensure inclusive and sustainable action.

This project leverages innovative tools, such as traditional songs, local media (TV and radio), virtual reality, games, and podcasts, to promote inclusive and accessible climate knowledge dissemination across Ghanaian communities.

This project empowers young people to lead climate-resilient solutions within their communities through capacity building, innovation, and advocacy to facilitate a generation of climate-conscious leaders and eco-entrepreneurs across Ghana.

The Senegal country programme works to strengthen the resilience of local communities by integrating gender equality and social inclusion into policies and practices and enhancing and amplifying local knowledge.

YEDA's knowledge-to-action (K2A) project seeks to inform community responses to climate emergencies in Mundri County by mapping flood-prone areas, evacuation routes, safe areas and infrastructurally sound establishments that support disaster relief.

This knowledge-to-action (K2A) project with Nature and People as One (NaPO) seeks to transform the Marsabit forest ecosystem for Indigenous communities to actively be involved in the planning, management and monitoring of their landscape.