GCF’s approach to Locally Led Climate Action: Scaling up support for locally driven solutions

Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) is central to how the Green Climate Fund (GCF) delivers on its mandate to support the most vulnerable. Climate change has profoundly local impacts. However, local actors are often left without the resources or authority to shape the responses that affect their lives.

LLCA addresses this gap by placing decision-making power and financial resources in the hands of local actors – across governments, civil society, and the private sector – who are best positioned to design and implement climate responses grounded in local realities.

GCF’s approach to LLCA builds on globally endorsed Principles for Locally Led Adaptation and GCF’s operational experience. GCF’s commitment to LLCA aligns with its Strategic Plan for 2024–2027 and the "50by30" vision, which calls for the importance of enhancing direct access and delivering greater impact for the most vulnerable. Through LLCA, GCF is scaling up support for country-owned, locally driven solutions by leveraging its global partner network and flexible financing modalities to build long-term resilience.

GCF’s Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) Framework and Guidance puts local leadership at the heart of climate finance - empowering local actors to drive solutions that build lasting resilience. The Framework aligns GCF and its partners on good practices for locally led action across GCF's funding modalities, aiming to increase the quality and volume of investments that support devolved decision-making and finance, local ownership and implementation, and sustainable local capacities.

To read about GCF’s approach to LLCA, click here.

To read GCF’s Locally Led Climate Action (LLCA) Framework and Guidance, click here.