Principles to Guide Investment in Support of Community Resilience

The Asian Development Bank’s Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) aims to strengthen climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific through scaling up investment in climate adaptation, explicitly addressing the nexus between climate, gender, and poverty.This technical note is one in a series released as part of the operationalization of the CRPP. It presents the context and rationale underpinning the five principles to guide the identification and design of investments promoted by the CRPP to achieve its goals. These five principles account for key lessons captured by large-scale climate adaptation and/or resilience programs implemented globally.