Supporting regions to build just resilience that lasts

As the world confronts critical climate and biodiversity challenges, the call for locally grounded, inclusive, and scalable solutions has never been clearer. Yet, a key piece remains missing: investment that reaches the territories and communities where transformation happens. 

The Just Resilience Action Platform (JRAP) is the next step in this journey. A dedicated finance and support mechanism that helps subnational governments move projects from ideas to impact and accelerate resilience. JRAP channels technical assistance and finance directly to regional governments, strengthens peer-to-peer learning, equips regions with tailored planning and monitoring tools, and amplifies regional leadership on the global stage, advancing integrated and nature-based solutions for a just and sustainable future.

 

 

Just Resilience in Action: How JRAP Works

  • Directly channels finance and technical support to regional governments and communities.

  • Strengthens peer-to-peer learning by connecting regional communities of practice.

  • Equips members with practical tools for just resilience planning and monitoring.

  • Amplifies regional leadership on the global stage for climate and biodiversity action.

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The crises of climate change and biodiversity loss demand more than action - they demand justice. The Just Resilience Action Platform embodies that principle, connecting local leadership, knowledge and solutions with global solidarity. By empowering communities to address the root causes of inequality and vulnerability, we’re investing in justice, in people, and in the places where real transformation begins. The Scottish Government has embedded climate justice into all of our international engagement, and is proud to support this platform to make resilience both just and lasting.

Mr. Gillian Martin, Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, The Scottish Government

A Living Pilot: Guardians of the Amazon

JRAP’s first pilot in the Ecuadorian Amazon, developed with support from the Scottish Government, the Consortium of Provincial Governments of Ecuador (CONGOPE), and Indigenous and international partners, led
to the Guardians of the Amazon, a flagship effort of just resilience in action:

  • Strengthening Indigenous economies through agroforestry, food systems, and sustainable tourism
  • Empowering communities to monitor forests and restoration using drones and MRV tools
  • Connecting provinces and Indigenous leaders to co-develop just resilience strategies
  • Elevating local voices in global climate, biodiversity and sustainability fora

This pilot demonstrated the power of locally defined priorities, Indigenous leadership, and regionally enabled action. It offers practical insights for designing just resilience strategies that are inclusive, grounded in place.

Just Resilience means ensuring that responses to climate and biodiversity challenges are not only effective - but also fair, inclusive, transformative and grounded in local realities.  

It brings together equitable outcomes - where the costs and benefits of action are fairly shared — with equitable processes that promote transparency, participation, and knowledge-based decision-making. 

Just Resilience tackles the root causes of vulnerability - from poverty and exclusion to environmental degradation - and empowers communities as true agents of change. It ensures that people can shape and transform their territories when provided with the right conditions: the policies, resources, and platforms they need to lead. 

Become a Founding Partner and Invest in Resilience Where Change Happens

Be part of shaping a global movement for just resilience. As a Founding Partner of the Just Resilience Action Platform (JRAP), you’ll help scale transformative action, gain strategic access to influential networks, and be recognized as a leader in equity, climate, and nature.

Building on Scotland’s £100,000 contribution, we invite partners to match or multiply this investment, fueling innovation, local impact, and global influence.

Join us in co-creating a lasting mechanism for finance, knowledge, and collaboration where transformation happens.

Projects ready to be supported:

Azuay, Ecuador

The Wetland Restoration project: Led by the Prefecture of Azuay and local partners, restores high-altitude Andean wetlands that regulate water flow, store carbon, and support biodiversity. The project enhances rural and urban water security, supports sustainable livelihoods, and fosters local leadership, particularly
among women and youth.

Goiás, Brazil

The ‘Cerrado em Pé’ project: This pioneer state-led Payment for environmental Services scheme rewards Indigenous peoples, traditional communities and small farmers for conserving the Cerrado biome, one of the world’s most threatened savannas and a vital carbon sink.

Saint-Louis, Senegal

The Mangrove Restoration project: It supports the conservation and restoration of mangrove ecosystems in the Senegal River Delta, strengthening coastal resilience while generating sustainable livelihoods. Led by the Saint-Louis regional government with partners, the initiative restores up to 40 hectares of degraded coastline annually with the support of local residents.

Delivering Just Resilience from the Ground Up

Pilot Solutions

JRAP provides tailored, catalytic support to early-stage initiatives that advance climate, nature, and equity from the ground up.

Learning & Scaling

Enables region-to-region exchange, knowledge sharing, and development of tools to replicate and adapt successful models.

Influencing Global Agendas

Raises visibility of subnational action at major global fora — from Climate COP30 to Biodiversity COP17, the UN High-Level Political Forum for Sustainable Development and beyond.

 

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What Building Just Resilience Looks Like

 

The Breakthrough Workshop on Indigenous Economy and Just Resilience, held from January 20–24, 2025, in Napo, Ecuador, is a powerful example of how the Just Resilience Action Platform (JRAP) turns ideas into impact.

Supported by JRAP, the workshop brought together provincial governments from Ecuador’s Amazon region, Indigenous communities, NGOs, and international partners to explore how Indigenous economic models can strengthen climate resilience and local development.

This collaboration reflects JRAP’s mission to empower subnational governments with the finance, tools, and partnerships needed to accelerate just and inclusive resilience at scale. Co-organized by Regions4, Nature4Climate, and Wiñak, with support from The Scottish Government, CONGOPE, The Nature Conservancy, Nature and Culture International, GATC, and EDF, the workshop showed how regional leadership and Indigenous innovation can work hand in hand to shape a just, sustainable future and inspire action.

Read the Indigenous Economy and Just Resilience Report

Outcomes Report Breakthrough Workshop – Indigenous Economy and Just Resilience

Resources

Join as a Founding Partner

Let’s invest where transformation happens- in the territories. Join us to support those leading , scale what works, and deliver resilience where it matters most.

    Jordan Harris, responsible
    of this project:

    Jordan Harris

    Executive Director

    jharris@regions4.org