Sep 30, 2022
The Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP) will make significant strides this week as diverse stakeholders come together in Washington DC. From October 4 to 6, 2022, the partnership will cooperatively build a strategic action plan to put transformational change linked to climate finance into practice.
The TCLP is a group of more than 650 individuals from over 250 organizations and it is growing. While the TCLP is hosted by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), this community of policymakers, practitioners, and climate advocates finds common ground in cooperative knowledge-sharing and collaboratively developing concepts, methods, and metrics for transformational change in climate action.
Fundamental Change, Transformational outcomes
Since its inception, CIF’s guiding principle has been to realize the transformative outcomes of climate finance programs. Transformational change is in CIF’s DNA, so to speak: It is set in the organization’s original mandate. That mandate has evolved and is now embodied in a ground-breaking multidisciplinary, multistakeholder community of practice that the learning partnership has become. Since its launch 5 years ago, the TCLP has developed concepts and frameworks of transformational change, including a working definition of transformational change in climate action:
“Fundamental change in systems relevant to climate action with large-scale positive impacts that shift and accelerate the trajectory of progress towards climate neutral, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable development pathways.
The group also identified five dimensions that must be present for transformational change to occur. The five dimensions—Relevance, Systemic Change, Speed, Scale, and Adaptive Sustainability—vary in emphasis and significance based on context and timing. See the graphic below.
