Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

1721

Views

Comments

Discussion details

Posted on Global Climate Change Alliance Plus Initiative - GCCA

Created 14 January 2015

LoCAL is a global programme from the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) on climate change mainstreaming and finance at the local level.

The programme aims to increase local governments’ access to climate finance to implement climate change adaptation measures in target countries, primarily in LDCs. Its expected outputs are three-fold:
1. climate change adaptation is mainstreamed into (local) governments’ planning and budgeting systems
2. increased awareness of and response to climate change at the local level
3. increased amount of climate change adaptation finance available to local governments and economies

LoCAL operates through a performance-based grant mechanism for climate resilience, making full use of country systems rather than using a project approach.

LoCAL currently works in Asia, Africa and the Pacific, in Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Cambodia, Ghana, Lao PDR, Mali, Nepal and Niger; and will soon start operating in Mozambique, and the Solomon Islands.

LoCAL is co-funded by the EU GCCA+, EU geographical instruments, Swedish International Cooperation Development Agency (SIDA), the Government of Lichtenstein, the Belgian Cooperation, UNDP GEF, the Government of Benin, and UNCDF.

More information is available at: http://www.local-uncdf.org/

(22)

Join Capacity4dev

Former capacity4dev member

Created: 14 January 2015 12:52

L’initiative LoCAL (Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility) Bénin mise en œuvre par le Ministère de l’Environnement Chargé de la Gestion des Changements Climatiques, du Reboisement et de la Protection des ressources forestièresle avec l'appui du Fonds d’Equipement des Nations Unies (UNCDF) lance un appel à candidature visant à recruter un Consultant National, Spécialiste en Changement Climatique et Développement Local pour accompagner le processus de prise en compte de l’adaptation des changements climatiques dans les instruments de planification locale.

http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=20159

Former capacity4dev member

Created: 14 January 2015 15:22

VIDEO from LoCAL-Cambodia.

Climate change adaptation can not be done effectively without vulnerability assessments. This information is the starting point for climate resilient planning. From there, Mr Phum Phal explains how participation and a clear process make it possible for the Local Governance and Climate Change program (LoCAL-Cambodia) to make a real impact at local levels.

http://youtu.be/qBl43fuNIW0

Former capacity4dev member

Created: 26 March 2015 14:05

LoCAL Story from the field: "Kingdom in the clouds: a travelogue about scaling up LoCAL in Bhutan"

http://www.local-uncdf.org/kingdom-in-the-clouds.html

Former capacity4dev member

Created: 26 March 2015 14:58

LoCAL Story from the field: "A new elevated road in Cambodia serves as shelter during the floods and brings access to key services like schools and hospitals"

http://www.local-uncdf.org/business-not-as-usual.html

Former capacity4dev member

Created: 26 March 2015 14:21

Niger and Ghana join LoCAL.

Since it started its work in Bhutan and Cambodia countries in 2011, LoCAL has been introduced in an additional 5 countries in Asia and Africa. To date, LoCAL has provided grants to 29 local governments, reaching out to a population of over 4 million, across 7 LDCs in Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Lao PDR and Nepal) and Africa (Benin and Mali). The objective of the support is to pilot a mechanism that can then be scaled up to the national level, therefore targeting over 230 million people across countries.

Last month, the Memoranda of Understanding with Niger and with Ghana were signed, expanding the programme to another 2 African countries.

Peuhl woman, UNCDF