{"id":21024,"date":"2025-03-13T09:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2025-03-13T09:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:43:11","slug":"innovation-for-building-climate-resilience-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/innovation-for-building-climate-resilience-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation for Building Climate Resilience in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[vc_row parallax=”content-moving” parallax_image=”21025″ css=”.vc_custom_1741669861486{background-position: center;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1694155939882{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”350px”][vc_btn title=”Photo credit: Pexels.com” size=”xs” align=”left” i_icon_fontawesome=”fas fa-info-circle” css_animation=”fadeIn” add_icon=”true” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.adb.org%2Fblog%2Ffive-innovative-strategies-address-loss-and-damage-climate-change|target:_blank”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]South Asia and South East Asia are among the most vulnerable regions to climate shocks. The region is living through a \u201cnew climate normal\u201d in which intensifying heat waves, cyclones, droughts, and floods are testing the adaptation limits of government, businesses, and citizens. The changing climate could sharply diminish living conditions for up to 800 million people in a region that already has some of the world\u2019s poorest and most vulnerable populations1. According to Germanwatch, countries like Myanmar, Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, and Nepal are among the top 10 most affected countries from 1999 to 2019 and have very high Climate Risk Index (CRI) of 10.00, 13.67, 18.71, 28.33, 29.00, 29.83, and 31.33 respectively2. Despite huge investments and efforts from national, regional, and international organizations, there persists a huge uncertainty on the resilience outcomes. Studies suggest that innovation initiatives at the grassroots level bring about a higher impact in building climate resilience3. But such innovation initiatives need regular funding, capacity development, technical backstopping, and monitoring. Furthermore, it is also evident that there are a lot of innovative initiatives at the local level, but most of the innovations are never scaled up and effectively utilized by the national or local government.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]<\/p>\n

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) has been at the forefront of facilitating and fostering local-level climate innovations in the region. With financial support from the World Bank, International Finance Corporation (IFC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Kingdom \u2013 Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK FCDO), and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, ADPC has successfully organized, facilitated, and implemented six ground-level innovation initiatives fostering about 56 innovations. The following six innovation initiatives covered 11 countries namely Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Maldives, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam over different periods and have directly or indirectly benefitted over a million citizens:<\/p>\n

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  1. SERVIR Small Grants Program (2017)<\/li>\n
  2. TechEmerge Resilience India Challenge (2020-2022)<\/li>\n
  3. APP Social Innovation Challenge (2021-2023)<\/li>\n
  4. Climate Innovation Challenge (2021-2023)<\/li>\n
  5. SARTHI Initiative (2022)<\/li>\n
  6. iCARE Innovation Fund (2023-2025)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \u201c\u2026Innovation initiatives at the grassroots level bring about a higher impact in building climate resilience.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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