Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL)

  • Solomon Islands
  • Pacific

ENTRY DATE: 09.03.2012 | LAST UPDATE: 09.03.2012

SCALE:

  • Countrywide

TARGET AREA:

BEST PRACTICE IN:

  • Project Implementation
  • Research and Development

KEY SECTOR:

  • Livelihood Security

FUNDING AMOUNT:

  • USD 1,000,001 - USD 5,000,000

Description of Intervention

Over the next four years (2011–2014) the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) will develop and implement, in collaboration with partner governments, a Local Climate Living (LoCAL) facility. The facility will introduce means for local governments to respond to the challenges and increased expenses of ensuring that the services and infrastructure they provide are resilient to climate change. LoCAL incorporates local initiatives into national strategies and development plans to ensure more complete and sustainable implementation of climate change adaptation measures. The facility will make full use of capacities and systems already established through existing local government financial structures.

Problems to be Addressed

To respond to the challenges and increased expenses of ensuring that the services and infrastructures local governments provide are resilient to climate change

Aims

To provide accessible finance for local governments to respond to climate change

Objectives

• To strengthen provinces to respond to climate change through the development of Land-use Development Plans;
• To establish environment offices in different provinces in Solomon Islands and create a position of environment officers; and
• To recruit environment officers to look after these offices.

How it fits into the EbA concept

Provinces in Solomon Islands engaged in proper land use development and coastal resources management