Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: January 2026

CBM is an international Christian development organisation committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries worldwide. With over 100 years of experience, CBM advances disability-inclusive development and humanitarian action through Community Based Inclusive Development, Inclusive Humanitarian Action and Inclusive Health initiatives. CBM also addresses climate change impacts through Disability Inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, disability-inclusive social protection and livelihoods, and advocacy for meaningful participation of persons with disabilities in actions to avert, minimize and address loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Africa

Joining Date: May 2026

Centre for Inclusive Climate Change Adaptation for a Sustainable Africa (ICCASA) is a Kenya-based NGO advancing inclusive, gender-transformative climate adaptation across Africa. Its work focuses on GEDSI integration, loss and damage analysis, climate-resilient livelihoods, risk assessments, institutional strengthening and inclusive climate governance. ICCASA brings specific expertise on vulnerable communities in Kenya and supports the participation of women, persons with disabilities, youth and local communities in climate action.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: January 2025

CIMA Research Foundation's mission is to enhance the capacity of organizations, communities, and ecosystems to address to the adverse impacts of climate change, extreme weather and biodiversity loss. To achieve this CIMA integrates scientific research, technical assistance, and practical strategies with a strong focus on capacity development, ensuring that technical assistance is tailored to stakeholder’s unique needs and contexts. 

Organization

Region: Asia, Oceania

Joining Date: June 2026

ClimateABILITY Pty Ltd is an Australia-based climate change, resilience and climate finance consultancy working across the Pacific and Asia-Pacific. The firm supports governments and partners with climate risk and vulnerability assessments, adaptation planning, resilience investment, institutional strengthening, early warning systems, forecast-based financing, monitoring and evaluation, and climate finance proposal development. Led by Amanda Amjadali, ClimateABILITY provides practical, implementation-oriented support to help countries translate climate risks and impacts into actionable programmes, investment plans and financing pathways relevant to averting, minimizing and addressing loss and damage.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2025

Climate Adaptation Works’ mission is to help vulnerable communities quantify climate risks and value solutions. Their tools and experience—from adaptation metrics (AMME) to community-led L&D evaluations—aim to provide technical assistance that is demand-driven and grounded in local realities. Climate Adaptation Works contributes to clarifying metrics, boundaries, and investment strategies that address loss and damage effectively.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2025

Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. They connect science and policy to empower vulnerable countries in international climate negotiations and inform national planning with targeted research, analysis and support. Their international team of 130 experts and support staff work from their headquarters in Berlin and their regional offices in Africa, Australia and the Pacific, the Caribbean, North America and South Asia.

Organization

Region: Global

Joining Date: April 2026

ClimFin is a climate finance advisory firm specialized in translating climate-related losses and damages into financeable responses. ClimFin supports governments, Accredited Entities, and partners to design and structure adaptation, resilience, and climate impact response projects. Drawing on deep institutional knowledge of GCF systems and hands-on project development experience, ClimFin provides technical assistance, capacity building, and advisory services that strengthen countries’ ability to integrate loss and damage considerations into existing climate strategies and investment pipelines. 

Body

Region: Global

Joining Date: May 2025

The Climate Risk Early Warning Systems initiative (CREWS) Initiative responds to demands for technical assistance by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) on early warning systems through its three operational partners, the World Bank, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 

Expert

Region: Africa

Joining Date: June 2025

Cyril Effiong brings expertise in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data analysis, climate modeling, and risk assessment. He holds a PhD focused on non-economic loss and damage in flood-prone communities along the Lower Niger River basin in Nigeria. His work addresses climate-induced impacts, vulnerability mapping, and locally tailored adaptation strategies. He has published on these topics in peer-reviewed journals and has translated data and research into actionable insights for policy and planning purposes.

Expert

Region: Global, Latin America and the Caribbean, Northern America, Europe, Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

Daniela Paredes Grijalva is an expert on climate justice, environmental mobilities, and climate-related loss and damage, with regional expertise in the Americas, Latin America and Southeast Asia. Her work focuses on displacement, planned relocation, non-economic loss and damage, and the social and cultural dimensions of climate impacts. She has interdisciplinary experience working on climate change, environmental governance, and participatory approaches that integrate local and Indigenous knowledge into adaptation and policy processes. Daniela is particularly interested in supporting equitable and community-informed responses to climate-related displacement and socio-ecological transformation. 

Organization

Region: Asia

Joining Date: May 2026

DEEM for Development is a Yemeni non-profit organization founded in 2015 and registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (MoSAL) in both internationally recognized government and de facto authority areas. DEEM delivers integrated humanitarian and early-recovery programmes across Yemen, with strong capacity in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), climate-resilient infrastructure, protection, gender-based violence, health and nutrition, camp coordination and camp management, shelter and non-food items, food security, livelihoods and rapid response. Guided by humanitarian principles, DEEM supports locally led solutions and strengthens national and community systems through partnerships and capacity building.

Expert

Region: Global

Joining Date: March 2026

Former UNDRR, WMO and GCF senior staff, specialized in loss and damage, adaptation, and mobilization of public and private climate finance at scale for developing countries, especially SIDS, LDCs, and African states. Provides technical assistance on addressing climate risks through vulnerability assessments and design of projects and programmes in DRR, EWS, forecast-based financing, and risk transfer mechanisms. Recent work includes advancing data-driven climate mobility approaches and developing investible projects for the FRLD, GCF, AF and GEF.