Breaking the mould: designing and delivering finance directly to communities

Date: 24 June 2025

Time: 11:15 – 12:30

This session is part of the Resilience Hub’s full day event: Resilience that Delivers: Turning Science into Action and Impact.

Climate finance still largely flows through top-down, inflexible channels. Consequently, the communities most exposed and least equipped to adapt to climate change remain locked out due to high transaction costs, perceived risk, and lack of tailored financial instruments.

This session provides a platform to collaboratively translate the Resilience Science Must-Knows into actionable guidance. Participants will directly feed the outcomes and recommendations into a globally recognised guide that reflects the realities of risk, agency, and resilience on the ground.

What to expect

This session builds on the months of scientific review, multi-stakeholder consultations, and targeted validations that informed the Resilience Science Must-Knows and will result in a Road to Action that translates these insights into actionable guidance.

The Road to Action is set to launch at COP30, and participants will help directly feed outcomes into globally recognised recommendations set to influence real economy strategies.

Together, we’ll explore:

Effective ways to ground the recommendations in locally informed perspectives
Practical ways to ensure the Must-Knows are co-developed with, and for, decision-makers and stakeholders on the ground
How these Must-Knows can align with and inform COP30 priorities

Speakers

Daniel Stander, Senior Advisor, UNDP (moderator)

Jorge Gastelumendi, Senior Director, Atlantic Council Climate Resilience Center

Ariana Keyman, Director of Partnerships, GiveDirectly

Sam Greene, PlanAdapt

Shehnaaz Moosa, Director, SouthSouthNorth

Chris Redmond, Poet & Artistic Director, Hot Poets

Liv Turc, Poet & Artistic Director, Hot Poets

How to join

You must register for Breaking the mould: Designing and delivering finance directly to communities. Click “get tickets” to secure your free spot. Please note that you are registering for an in-person event.

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Breaking the mould: designing & delivering finance directly to communities