Building Resilience from the Ground Up
This learning report consolidates pivotal findings from Christian Aid’s Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCASE) programme, documenting a dual journey: one of building community resilience from the ground up, and another of the organisation’s own strategic evolution. Initially conceived within a broad justice-centred framework, the programme’s implementation over the past three years coincided with Christian Aid’s strategic shift towards delivering impact through defined thematic priorities, including climate adaptation and resilience, and gender justice. This report, therefore, captures how the pursuit of climate justice is being effectively operationalised and given concrete form through these focused thematic lenses.
The central learning is that authentic climate resilience requires transforming the power structures that create vulnerability, not just adapting to their effects. Implemented across 13 countries, the programme provides robust evidence that centring women’s leadership, indigenous knowledge and community agency is the most effective pathway to lasting change.
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