Least Developed Countries Fund – Institutional Support 2021-2025

This grant represents Canada's long-term institutional support to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). The LDCF uses these funds and other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate. The LDCF’s mandate addresses urgent and immediate adaptation needs of the poorest and most vulnerable countries. The LDCF supports Least Developed Countries in preparing and implementing National Adaptation Programmes of Action and National Adaptation Plans. It also focuses on reducing the vulnerability of the sectors and resources central to development and livelihoods. This includes agriculture and food security health water disaster risk management and prevention infrastructure and fragile ecosystems. The LDCF is mandated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and is administered by the Global Environment Facility. It aims to address the needs of Least Developed Countries that are especially vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) reduced vulnerability and increased resilience of Least Developed Countries through innovation and technology transfer for climate change adaptation; (2) mainstreamed climate change adaptation and resilience for systemic impact; and (3) fostered enabling conditions for effective and integrated climate change adaptation. These results cut across a wide variety of themes and geographies. Results include: (1) improving the resilience of the agriculture sector in East Africa; (2) supporting the distribution of drought-resilient crop seeds in Sub-Saharan Africa; and (3) investing in automated weather stations to help increase food and water security in Pacific Small Island Developing States.