Informing Community Access to Loss and Damage Funding

The work to disperse funding under the Fund for responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD), and indeed any efforts to implement meaningful and appropriate solutions for those affected by climate change, must be informed by impacted people. They are best positioned to identify their priorities, needs, gaps and the most impactful ways to deploy resources that facilitate inclusion, representation and compensation of all affected communities. As such, this case study, shared as a submission with the Board of the FRLD, provides evidence and testimonies from communities hbs Washington, DC partner Climate Refugees visited in Kenya that are already suffering extreme climate impacts. They lack and need the support to withstand those growing climate impacts that put them at risk to grave violations of their human rights, repeated and uncompensated development setbacks, permanent displacement and forced migration. How the FRLD can benefit them and other vulnerable and marginalized communities must be at the forefront of Board decisions on funding priorities and access modalities that the Board will tackle in 2025.