The capacity-building initiatives for urban resilience in India have primarily focused on state institutions, whereby non-state actors have often not been considered. Also, the initiatives are not geared towards making the communities resilient. The proposed project aims to build the capacity of non-state actors in Urban India towards understanding climate crises and its causal linkages. This project will adopt the climate justice framework and participatory approach with an overall objective of creating communities of practice and academic-activist knowledge based on scientific fundamentals. In the first phase (6 months), 5 regional workshops across differing clusters in India will be conducted in the local languages, that will focus on enhancing the capacity of non-state actors to address urban climate challenges. In the second phase (12 months), the project will support 12 community-based climate action projects across India, which will be codeveloped by groups of participants from the regional workshops. In the third phase (6 months), the project will organise a National Consultation as well as a concluding conference on linking scientific evidence, community knowledge and policy propositions based on the learnings of the action projects and a concluding conference to disseminate the findings and learnings from the project and relevant policy recommendations.