Community Resilience Partnership Program Partnership Forum 2027: Call for Solutions

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 explore how policies, programs and investments can strengthen climate resilience, particularly at the local level. 

Now on its fifth year, the CRPP Partnership Forum 2027 in Bangkok, Thailand will focus on how investments aimed at improving health and well-being outcomes can be designed and delivered differently to respond to changing climate risks and strengthen resilience among poor and vulnerable communities. The forum will be held on 23–24 February 2027.

Call for Solutions

The CRPP Secretariat is inviting interested practitioners, especially women practitioners from South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Pacific countries, to submit a one-page proposal showcasing an innovative pro-poor adaptation solution in the context of the following topics:

• Topic 1: Strengthening community climate-health resilience through early warning and locally led anticipatory action. This topic will explore how climate-health information and early warnings can inform locally led anticipatory action and community-managed responses. Submissions are invited to showcase innovative, community-based initiatives that demonstrate the leading role women can play in turning climate health information and early warnings into practical action to protect community health.
   
• Topic 2: Strengthening community climate-health resilience through women's skills, knowledge, and frontline roles. This topic will explore how women's existing roles in protecting community health and well-being can be better recognized, supported, and connected to health systems. Submissions are invited to showcase innovative, community-based initiatives that strengthen the roles of women community health workers, midwives, and women's organizations in addressing climate-related health risks and building community resilience.
   
• Topic 3: Protecting nutrition outcomes of vulnerable households through climate-resilient agriculture and adaptive social protection. This topic will explore how nutrition and food security can be protected and improved in the face of climate change, particularly among women and vulnerable households. Submissions are invited to showcase innovative, community-based initiatives that help women and vulnerable households maintain access to nutritious food and healthy diets in the face of climate-related shocks and stresses.
   
• Topic 4: Strengthening community climate-health resilience in informal urban settings. This topic will explore how community-centered urban development can address climate-related health risks and improve living and working conditions for vulnerable urban populations. Submissions are invited to showcase innovative, women-led, community-based initiatives that reduce climate-related health risks for vulnerable people living and working in informal urban settings.

One innovative solution will be selected for each topic and will be presented at the forum. ADB will cover the travel costs of selected presenters.

Please submit your proposal through this form.

Deadline for submission is 15 December 2026.