Kathmandu, 13 November: The Community Development and Advocacy Forum working in various districts of Madhes Province in Nepal has received an award of 15,000 Euros. The Forum received the award in the local innovation category under the Local Adaptation Champion Award, granted by the Global Center on Adaptation based in the Netherlands. The award was handed over at  the sidelines of  Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP-27) at Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Addressing the award distribution program virtually, Ban Ki-Moon, former UN Secretary General of the United Nations and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Global Center on Adaptation, said that the local government and community will make an important contribution to local adaptation and that suggested making the development plans inclusive, according to reports. People's News Monitoring Service