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CAIAP’s objectives are focused on fostering innovation, collaboration, and capacity-building to address the pressing challenges of climate change and its impact on food security. These objectives are underpinned by the recognition of the critical role that high potential ventures, multi-stakeholder partnerships, and the private sector play in accelerating effective adaptation action and catalysing systemic change. CAIAP also emphasises the importance of strengthening local climate change adaptation capacities and networks, and the need for tracking the adoption and impact of innovations. Each of these objectives contributes to a comprehensive approach towards sustainable and effective climate change adaptation. Objective 1. Identify, support and scale high potential climate innovations that address priority challenges. Innovation plays a significant role in improving effective climate adaptation, especially in developing countries where climate change impacts are more severe and frequent. CAIAP will support Early Stage innovations that are testing new and groundbreaking ideas, as well as Growth Stage ventures to replicate and scale already proven innovations. Acceleration programmes connect selected innovations with funding, knowledge, and networks, which enable them to progress faster along their pathway to scale and create sustainable impact. The primary aim of CAIAP is that accelerated innovations will be adopted, rolled out, and sustainably integrated into practice within the identified regions, leading to increased climate adaptation capacity of these areas. Objective 2. Promote new local and global collaborations to strengthen local climate change adaptation capacities and networks. A key to enabling effective adaptation is encouragement of multistakeholder partnerships that include a wide range of communities, such as youth, women, people with disabilities, researchers, civil society, and indigenous people, across the innovation lifecycle. Through its Innovation Localisation component, CAIAP aims to create spaces that promote new collaborations to accelerate the implementation and impact of selected innovations, as well as enabling learning, capacity building, and opportunity sharing across local innovation and climate ecosystems. In particular, we aim to leverage the power of private sector collaborations. The private sector can play a key role in setting principles and criteria for funding effective climate action, acting as a catalyst for aligning the entire financial system with climate change adaptation goals. Objective 3. Increase the knowledge and evidence-base related to climate innovation in selected regions. Disseminating evidence, key lessons learned, and other pertinent information generated by supported innovations and the WFP Innovation Accelerator during the CAIAP will raise the visibility of participants and ideally support their adoption. In addition, CAIAP will contribute to increasing the knowledge and evidence base about climate innovation in these regions more generally, as well as informing other climate adaptation actors. Sharing ideas and evidence increases the effectiveness of future climate adaptation activities by reducing the risk of repeating mistakes, preventing duplication of effort, and inspiring new ideas or iterations.