Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Partnership Forum 2026
24 to 25 February 2026

Thailand


The Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) supports countries and communities in the Asia and Pacific region to scale up investments in climate adaptation that explicitly target the nexus of climate change, poverty, and gender. The CRPP has a dedicated gender window with funds earmarked specifically for supporting women-focused investments.

The annual CRPP Partnership Forum brings together community leaders, government officials, development partners, think tanks, the private sector, financial institutions, and global climate funds to discuss the role that poverty reduction policies and programs can play in building climate resilience.

The CRPP Partnership Forum 2026 focused on the role of livelihoods-related programs in delivering measurable climate adaptation outcomes at the local level. Often, these are addressed through sectoral interventions in social protection, agriculture and natural resources, and skills development, leveraging both public and private interventions. Building climate resilience requires both government systems to reach the most vulnerable and coordinate across sectors, and the private sector's ability to mobilize capital, create sustainable markets, and drive innovation. These discussions were linked to and built on CRPP’s previous partnership forums in 2023 (exploring themes of adaptive social protection and climate-resilient agriculture), 2024 (resilience through decentralization systems and climate-resilient skills development), and 2025 (resilience through urban poverty reduction and financial inclusion).

The CRPP is operationalized through the Community Resilience Financing Partnership Facility (CRFPF) and includes a multi-donor trust fund administered by ADB and supported by the French Development Agency, Green Climate Fund, Nordic Development Fund, and the Government of the United Kingdom.

For questions, please send an email to the CRPP Secretariat at crfpfsecretariat@adb.org.

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Opening Session Video: Opening Session: Rethinking Livelihoods of the Poor and Vulnerable in a Changing Climate
This video features a presentation on the CRPP Progress and Evolving Insights and a panel discussion on rethinking livelihoods in a changing climate.
Plenary 1 Video: Plenary 1: Building Individual and Household Climate Resilience through Integrated Livelihoods Approaches
This video features a presentation and a panel session on building individual and household climate resilience through integrated livelihood…
Plenary 1 Building Individual and Household Resilience Through Integrated Livelihoods Approaches Plenary
This presentation explores what it means to build individual and household climate resilience through integrated livelihood approaches and its…
Babken (Bob) Babajanian
Spotlight 1 Video: Spotlight 1: Promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihood Outcomes of Vulnerable Households through Adaptive Social Safety Net Programs
This video features presentations and a panel session on promoting climate-resilience livelihood outcomes of vulnerable households through adaptive…
Spotlight 1 Rising Above: From Safety Nets to Resilience Pathways: Transforming Social Protection into Climate-Resilient Livelihoods for Farmers, Fisherfolk, and Rural Youth
This presentation discusses the challenges facing farmers and fisherfolks in rural communities in the Philippines and the solution that RiceUp…
Elvin Jerome Laceda
Spotlight 1 Promoting Climate-Resilient Livelihood Outcomes of Vulnerable Households through Social Safety Net Programmes
This presentation shows how the World Food Programme supports vulnerable communities through early warning information, anticipatory action insurance…
Ashraful Amin
Spotlight 1 Risk, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Social Protection
This presentation provides the example of dzud as a structural climate risk embedded in Mongolia’s pastoral livelihoods with climate and pasture…
Silke Pietzsch
Spotlight 2 Video: Spotlight 2: Strengthening Access to Human and Financial Capital for Vulnerable Women to Pursue Climate-Resilient Livelihoods
This video features presentations and a panel session on strengthening access to human and financial capital for vulnerable women to pursue climate…
Spotlight 2 Women Ecopreneurs Lab
This presentation shows how the Women Ecopreneurs Lab empowers grassroots women’s leadership to protect the environment and build healthier, more…
Melisa Apriyani
Spotlight 2 Strengthening Women's Access to Human and Financial Capital for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods
This presentation explores the main barriers women face in securing climate-resilient livelihoods and provides examples of climate-resilient…
Sarala KC
Adaptation Solutions Hub Video: Adaptation Solutions Hub
The Adaptation Solutions Hub showcased innovative, locally led approaches to climate-resilient livelihoods, highlighting solutions that leverage both…
Fireside Chat Video: Fireside Chat: Maximizing Opportunities for Women-Focused Investments in Climate Resilience
This video leads to a panel session at forum where key experts discuss how to maximize opportunities for women-focused investments in climate…
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Plenary 2 Video: Plenary 2: Community and National Systems for Enabling Climate-Resilient Livelihoods
This video features presentations and a panel session on community and national systems for enabling climate-resilient livelihoods.
Plenary 2 Putting Climate-Risk Evidence in Communities’ Hands: Examples from CLARE
This presentation provides examples from the Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) program on how community evidence leads to agency, collective…
Arjan De Haan
Plenary 2 Shared Risk, Shared Financing: Designing Collective and Inclusive Resilience Along Pakistan’s Sindh Coast
This presentation provides choices or approaches for designing a collective and inclusive resilience along Pakistan’s Sindh coast.
Bimbika Sijapati Basnett
Spotlight 3 Video: Spotlight 3: Promoting Community Collective Action for Climate-Resilient Livelihoods and Market Systems
This video features presentations and a panel session on promoting community collective action for climate-resilient livelihoods and market systems.
Spotlight 3 Promoting Community Collection Action for Climate Resilient Livelihoods and Market System
This presentation provides lessons learned from specific solutions for community resilience that could inform replication or scaling, and lists the…
Sekar Insani Sumunaringtyas
Spotlight 3 Support for Agricultural Micro-Enterprises and Integration in Value Chains to Increase Food Security in Pakistan
This presentation explores the key challenges and problems in fisheries and livestock systems in Sindh, Pakistan and a solution that provides a…
Zeeshan Memon
Spotlight 3 Women-Led Cooperatives Delivering Local Adaptation Actions
This presentation provides learnings from locally led adaptation solutions from women-led cooperatives.
Rabin Raj Niraula
Spotlight 4 Video: Spotlight 4: Developing Climate Resilience of Micro and Small Enterprises through Enabling Systems and Partnerships
This video features presentations and a panel session on developing climate resilience of micro and small enterprises through enabling systems and…
Spotlight 4 Sustainable Agrifood Systems Sector Project
This presentation explains the MSME structure in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; the partnership between the public and private sectors and…
Sengkeo Phoutthavong
Spotlight 4 72-hour Protection for Fiji's Women-led MSMEs
This presentation shows the impact of the Cyclone Winston to Fiji’s national GDP, the vulnerability of women-led MSMEs, and a solution to connect…
Nanise Sowani
Spotlight 4 Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture
This presentation shows how the Partnership for Indonesia’s Sustainable Agriculture (PISAgro) is transforming the country’s agrifood system through…
Insan Syafaat
Roundtable Dialogue Video: Roundtable Dialogue
This video links to the Roundtable Dialogue Session of the CRPP Partnership Forum with governments and development partners.
Closing Session Video: Closing Session
This video links to the Closing Session of the CRPP Partnership Forum, featuring closing remarks from representatives of key partners.

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Event Coordinator/s

  • Nisha Krishnan
  • Jane David

ADB Organizer/s

  • Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
  • Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Topics

  • Climate Change
  • Disaster Risk Management
  • Regional Cooperation and Integration