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Resilient Communities

Climate change is reshaping the risks that communities face: more frequent floods, longer droughts, degraded ecosystems, and water systems under growing pressure. Building resilience means more than responding when things go wrong. It means strengthening the systems, capacities and local knowledge that help communities withstand and adapt to those pressures over time.

This cluster brings together two areas of expertise: Climate Resilient WASH Systems and Community-Led Water Resilience and Working with Nature.

Climate Resilient WASH Systems

Water and sanitation systems are only as strong as the conditions around them. In communities facing extreme weather, conflict, displacement or disease outbreaks, infrastructure that was not built with resilience in mind fails precisely when it is needed most.

Community-Led Water Resilience and Working with Nature

Floods and droughts do not arrive without warning. But in many communities, the gap between a forecast and a timely response is still too wide.