Présentation de l'initiative

Local authorities in least developed countries (LDCs) are in a unique position to identify climate change adaptation responses that best meet local needs, and typically have the mandate to undertake the small to medium sized adaptation investments required for building climate resilience. Yet they frequently lack the resources to do so – particularly to do so in a way which is aligned with established local decision-making processes and planning and budgeting cycles.
UNCDF’s LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) global programme has been designed to address this challenge, building on over two decades of UNCDF experience in fiscal decentralization, performance-based grants, local public financial management, and local investments and procurement around the world. LoCAL was established to address the unfunded mandate or role of local authorities in addressing climate change adaptation. LoCAL is a mechanism which can be tailored to specific country circumstances to increase awareness of and capacities to respond to climate change at the local level, mainstream climate change adaptation into local government planning and budgeting systems and investments and increase the amount of finance available to local governments for climate change adaptation.