Climate Finance - Local CLimate Adaptive Living in Oeganda (LOCAL) 2021-2024

UNCDF’s LoCAL programme in Uganda aims to strengthen the resilience of communities and local economies to climate change by channeling international climate finance to the local government level. Through its innovative Performance-Based Climate Resilience Grants (PBCRGs) mechanism, LoCAL integrates climate adaptation into existing local planning and budgeting systems while providing technical assistance and capacity building to local authorities. het vergroten van de veerkracht van gemeenschappen en lokale economieën op districtsniveau, door middel van regelmatige, voorspelbare, systemische en verifieerbare klimaatfinanciering ter ondersteuning van NDC- en NAP-gerichte lokaal geleide aanpassingsacties.

The overall objective of LoCAL Uganda is to contribute to enhanced resilience of communities and local economies at the district level through regular, predictable, systemic, and verifiable climate finance that supports locally led adaptation actions aligned with Uganda’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and National Adaptation Plan (NAP). The programme’s results framework is further elaborated in the project proposal.