As global adaptation policy moves to operationalize the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA), questions remain about what sustains success once external funding and oversight have ended. This article advances a relational framework for understanding how adaptation endures, arguing that success is less about technical design and short-term outputs, and more about the continuity of relationships among people, institutions, and place. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork across three rural Jamaican communities that implemented two United Nations Development Programme-supported agricultural adaptation projects, this study examines how adaptation practices have persisted more than five years after project closure. Through interviews, focus groups, and field observation, it identifies seven interlinked factors – volunteerism, local-institutional partnerships, embedded leadership, national alignment, locally tailored livelihoods, perceptions of fairness and inclusion, and long-term community enthusiasm – that have allowed adaptation to remain active and meaningful over time. The findings demonstrate that durability emerges from relational continuity, i.e. the social and institutional infrastructures that embed adaptation in everyday life. Introducing relational durability as both an analytical and policy lens, the article reframes adaptation success as a collective, co-produced process grounded in recognition, reciprocity, and care, and calls for these relational capacities to be treated as core indicators of progress under the GGA.
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