BRokering Innovation for Decentralized climate finance and Gender Equality (BRIDGE)

About this project

Currently, climate finance does not flow at the local level, where it is needed most and where the impacts of climate change are most acutely felt and dealt with. Rather, most adaptation funding is channelled to national governments, with city-level governments and the vulnerable communities they serve often being excluded from the financing process. This project will improve access by subnational stakeholders (municipalities and partners) to finance for locally led and gender-responsive climate change adaptation action in Cameroon, with learnings scaled to the central African region and beyond. The project will address knowledge-to-action gaps by strengthening knowledge brokers and their networks in moving from talk to action, and by generating and integrating the knowledge needed to unlock financing. In doing so, the project will contribute to reducing the vulnerability of marginalized communities in Cameroon and the region, by ensuring that interventions are implemented in ways that empower local stakeholders, especially women. Desktop and participatory mapping and analysis will help determine how to alter the current finance landscape. Co-developed tools and interactive sessions will strengthen the capacity of knowledge brokers. Learning labs will foster inclusive dialogue and enable the co-design of inclusive solutions to unlocking climate finance for locally led actions. This project is part of the Step Change initiative, co-funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of…

Published by

International Development Research Centre · Other public sector

Countries

Cameroon

Sectors

Public sector policy and administrative management

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributes

Published by International Development Research Centre to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 1 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-301-2-110174-001.

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