Least Developed Countries Fund - Institutional Support 2016-2020

This grant represents Canada's long-term institutional support to the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF). The LDCF uses these funds along with other donors’ funding to achieve its mandate: to adress the urgent and immediate adaptation needs of the poorest and most vulnerable countries. The LDCF provides support to least developed countries for the preparation and implementation of National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs). The NAPAs identify countries’ priorities for adaptation actions to increase resilience to the impacts of climate change. Consistent with the needs of recipient countries the LDCF focuses on reducing the vulnerability of the sectors and resources that are central to development and livelihoods notably: 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 (UNFCCC). Operating under the Global Environment Facility it addresses the needs of the 51 least developed countries that are especially vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

The expected objectives as stated by the LDCF include: (1) reduce the vulnerability of people livelihoods physical assets and natural systems to the adverse effects of climate change; (2) strengthen institutional and technical capacities for effective climate change adaptation; and (3) integrate climate change adaptation into relevant policies plans and associated processes.