A Cash for Work programme in Ghana is creating green opportunities for self-starters like pig-farmer and barber Collins Quayson from Yabiw in Western Region of Ghana. Alongside 55 others from his community he’s signed up for a job building a much-needed flood resistant bridge. It’s a double win for 33-year-old Mr Quayson, who plans to use his wages to invest in the two small businesses he runs, a piggery and barber shop.

LoCAL provides a mechanism to integrate climate change adaptation into local governments’ planning and budgeting systems, increase awareness and response to climate change at the local level. The LoCAL Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) builds on over two decades of UNCDF experience in fiscal decentralization, local public financial management, and local investments and procurement around the world. LoCAL is a further refinement of these experiences.

Now engaged in 31 countries, LoCAL helps to coordinate public policies for adaptation and decentralization. It gives the choice to those most affected by climate change impacts to adapt to new conditions, to test new practices and to live with dignity. LoCAL also makes it possible to increase the level of funds made available to local communities.

Video produced by Rodney Quarcoo for UNCDF in Ghana