The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility, or LoCAL, is a mechanism for financing locally led climate adaptation that launched in Cambodia in 2011. To date almost half of the Cambodian population have benefited from LoCAL climate adaptation actions, with more to follow as LoCAL rolls out nationwide. LoCAL uses an innovative system of Performance Based Climate Resilience Grants to channel finance to local governments for locally led adaptation. And, in a first for LoCAL, the Bassac Commune water infrastructure project uses a public-private partnership to boost available funds for more ambitious and resilient adaptation investments.

The ‘Innovative Decentralized Water Solutions to Provide Safety and Resilience for Residential Water Systems’ project is a joint action from Cambodia’s National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development Secretariat (NCDDS), the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, The Korea Water Resources Corporation, (K-Water) and UN Capital Development Fund operating through LoCAL. Launched in 2021, the project has a budget of US $1,5 M from Korea with technical assistance provided jointly by K-Water and UNCDF.

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