Getting ahead of the curve: direct finance for climate resilience

Climate shocks are increasing in frequency and intensity, yet finance continues to arrive too late, after livelihoods are lost and recovery costs have escalated. The core challenge is how to mobilise, align and deliver finance to communities before crises unfold.

This session brings together three complementary perspectives on how to do this at scale:

• Comic Relief, IIED and Sainsbury’s will share learning from their partnership on anticipatory social protection and the Anticipatory Social Protection Index for Resilience (ASPIRE) roadmap, drawing on evidence from nine countries
• The Centre for Disaster Protection will share evidence on pre-arranged finance and public financial management for disaster response, including work on adaptive social protection in the Sahel, and 
• Equal Right will share experience delivering unconditional cash transfers for climate action, nature and community advocacy.

The session will focus on ensuring pre-arranged finance flows through social protection systems at speed and scale, building partnerships that strengthen early action, work through national systems, and centre Majority World leadership.