Locally Led Climate Action
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 is profoundly local in its impacts. Yet too often, local actors are 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, including with the Enhancing Direct Access pilot. 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.
Locally Led Climate Action Framework
GCF's approach to locally led climate action is elaborated in a dedicated framework grounded in three parameters:
- Devolving decision-making and finance
Climate finance reaches the most relevant local actors, and local actors drive needs assessments, resource prioritization and allocation - Local ownership and implementation
Local actors participate in climate finance delivery channels across planning and project lifecycles - Sustainable local capacity and enabling environment
Local institutions, networks, and actors have the knowledge, systems and tools to lead climate action over time.
These parameters will be embedded into GCF’s origination and appraisal processes, shaping how projects are developed, assessed, and implemented. Through this framework, GCF supports adaptive, scalable solutions that reflect diverse local realities and ensure long-term resilience.
People from [the project] came to meet us. They observed, sat with us, we told them about all our problems. They said due to the flooding, they thought it would be good to raise the houses. They asked us: “What do you think?"
Farmer in Ashtamir Char
About SAP008: Extended Community Climate Change Project-Flood (ECCCP-Flood)
