LoCAL Annual Report 2020

In 2020, LoCAL was engaged with 304 local governments in 12 countries, representing a population of over 11.5 million. Another 13 countries have expressed interest in deploying the mechanism – Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Fiji, Jamaica, Liberia, Malawi, Pakistan, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal,Solomon Islands, Sudan, Uganda and Vanuatu – bringing the total number of LoCAL countries to 27. Over the same period, LoCAL has mobilized $99.07 million from partners, own resources and parallel funding from governments; the majority of these funds are disbursed as performance- based grants to local governments.

This 2020 annual report summarizes LoCAL activities and results across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, and at the global level, drawing on a range of experiences and good practices in LoCAL design and implementation since 2014. These experiences and practices are also exhaustively documented in the LoCAL publication Financing Local Adaptation to Climate Change: Experience with Performance- Based Climate Resilience Grants, which was endorsed in 2019 by the Least Developed Countries Expert Group of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as supplementary material to its National Adaptation Plan Technical Guidelines.