Women celebrate the construction of a school adapted to climate change in Guijá district, Gaza Province, Mozambique

The Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility, LoCAL, with the International Centre for Climate Change and Development, ICCCAD, is hosting the LLA Pavilion - a space for events, networking and raising ambition on adaptation and the Locally Led Adaptation (LLA) approach. Interested parties are invited to apply to host an event at the LLA Pavilion at the COP27 UN Climate Conference before the 30 September 2022 deadline.

The COP27 LLA Pavilion will be located in the Blue Zone of the Sharm El-Sheikh International Convention Center (SHICC). All in-person side event organizers, speakers and participants will have to secure their badges to enter the Blue Zone by being part of their national delegation or any other official delegation. It will be possible to invite virtual speakers to join remotely, if needed.

The space will hold 35 seated participants and will be open for events through COP27, taking place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt from 6 to 18 November, 2022. Last year, the space hosted panel discussion, 'hard talk' sessions, press conferences, movie premieres - and more. We hope that this year's LLA Pavilion will be similarly diverse and dynamic.

Applicants are requested to clarify how their event supports the eight LLA Principles, developed by the Global Commission on Adaptation and launched in 2021. The LoCAL Facility, through UNCDF, endorsed the LLA Principles at their launch at the 2021 Climate Adaptation Summit.

To host your LLA event, complete and submit this online form before the 30th September deadline.

About LoCAL

The LoCAL Facility is a mechanism for channeling finance to local governments for locally led adaptation to the impacts of climate change and designed by the UN Capital Development Fund some ten years ago. Today, some 32 countries across Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Pacific are currently designing or implementing their adaptation actions with the LoCAL Facility, which has mobilised over US $125 million for adaptation to date.

A recent Ministerial Declaration, which is based on inter-governmental discussions held at a meeting of the 9th Annual LoCAL Board and Ministerial Meeting in May of this year, included a commitment from UNCDF to grow the LoCAL Facility to a US$ 500 million mechanism by 2027. This ambitious target supersedes a previous goal of doubling the size of the facility within the same time frame after that goal look set to be met before the end of 2022.

The LoCAL Facility is a GCA Local Adaptation Champions finalist in the category 'Financial governance'.

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