Protecting people from the humanitarian impacts of extreme climate and weather events: Working together to strengthen anticipatory action and climate resilience

أ) أهداف التعهد

Georgia faces increasingly severe climate-related risks, including heat, floods, and droughts. These events place significant burdens on vulnerable communities, particularly those with limited adaptive capacity. In response, this pledge aims to:

• Raise awareness and promote behavioral change to reduce climate-related risks;
• Strengthen local preparedness and empower communities to take early action;
• Foster youth-led climate initiatives as a driver of locally led adaptation;
• Inform and guide actions through community-based assessments.

ب) خطة العمل:

1. Conduct and apply community-based assessments:

• Use findings to guide the selection of communities for further action and to design relevant interventions, ensuring evidence-based planning.

2. Empower communities through preparedness planning:

• Support the development of household and community-level emergency preparedness plans;
• Facilitate workshops and dialogue processes to ensure plans are locally relevant, inclusive, and owned by the community.

3. Launch small-scale projects in vulnerable communities:

• Initiate community-led climate adaptation initiatives based on identified priorities;
• Ensure that project selection is community-driven and reflects locally appropriate adaptation strategies.

4. Promote youth-led climate action:

• Support young people to lead climate adaptation projects through microgrants and mentorship;
• Use the Y-Adapt curriculum—a participatory, game-based learning approach that helps youth understand climate change and identify local adaptation strategies. The program encourages youth to become change agents in their communities by designing and implementing context-specific adaptation actions;
• Support youth-led initiatives through facilitation, technical consultation, and by promoting integration of their ideas into broader local environmental efforts, where appropriate.

5. Strengthen awareness and outreach:

• Launch public awareness campaigns and educational sessions tailored to climate hazards such as heatwaves, floods, and droughts;
• Engage communities in understanding risks and adopting risk-reducing behaviors, emphasizing behavioral change, collective responsibility, and locally appropriate knowledge dissemination.

6. Advance mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS):

• Explore the mental health impacts of climate change through community dialogue and assessments.
• Develop community-centered MHPSS materials and activities tailored to climate stressors such as displacement, heat stress, and uncertainty.

ج) مؤشرات قياس التقدم المحرز

• Number of people reached through awareness and risk communication efforts;
• Number of preparedness plans developed with and for communities;
• Number of youth-led initiatives developed and implemented;
• Number of assessments completed and shared with stakeholders;

د) الآثار المترتبة على الموارد:

• The implementation of this pledge will be supported by a combination of:
• Domestic resources (where available);
• Support from Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement partners;
• Donor funding and climate resilience grants.

We will explore potential collaboration with humanitarian and development actors and local governance structures to ensure sustained delivery and long-term integration of adaptation actions.