Least Developed Countries Fund - Institutional Support 2020-2024

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) and National Adaptation Plans (NAPs). 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 47 least developed countries that are especially vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change.

The LDCF aims to achieve three key results: (1) reduce the vulnerability and increase resilience of LDCs through innovation and technology transfer for climate change adaptation; (2) mainstream climate change adaptation and resilience for systemic impact; and (3) foster enabling conditions for effective and integrated climate change adaptation. These results cut across a wide variety of themes and geographies including for example: improving resilience of the agriculture sector in East Africa; supporting distribution of drought-resilient crop seeds in Sub-Saharan Africa; and investing in automated weather stations to help increase food and water security in Pacific Small Islands Developing States.