Budget Support Scale and LoCAL: Where Potential Converges

At a recent gathering in Brussels, staff from the EU and UNCDF came together to explore country experiences with budget support in decentralised contexts and the LoCAL mechanism’s Performance Based Climate Resilience Grants. 

Participants examined how the LoCAL mechanism and budget support activities can deliver mutually beneficial results and identified models for replication in other developing countries.

Bhutan

The mountain kingdom of Bhutan in South Asia, is receiving EU budget support that contributes to the Government’s efforts to reduce poverty and inequality and promote carbon neutral development.

Bhutan is one of the first two countries to pilot and embrace the LoCAL mechanism and highlights the potential of the model through EU budget support scale-up.

Read the attached document for full details and review examples of the LoCAL mechanism in action. Also attached find the event PPT.