The Local Climate Adaptive Living (LoCAL) facility of the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) was designed and launched in 2011 to establish a country-based mechanism to help local governments in LDCs access and effectively spend vital funding for local adaptation measures.

LoCAL has innovated a system of performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs) to channel climate finance and improve responses to climate change. These grants include a performance element which incentivizes local governments to target adaptation measures, while increasing transparency and accountability by enabling verification of climate change expenditure at the local level. By thus building capacity and trust, the LoCAL PBCRGs improve local governments’ chances of accessing and effectively using wider sources of climate funding.

The LoCAL global programme achieved its output targets for 2017.