Discover how the World Bank empowers communities to drive climate solutions that work for them through the locally led climate action (LLCA) approach.
Climate change and extreme weather events have already caused widespread and cascading impacts on people and communities around the world. Channeling finance to local levels and building bottom-up systems that empower communities, local governments, and other subnational stakeholders to lead climate responses are vital measures to change our current climate trajectories.
The World Bank has an important role to play. Through its national-scale programs, the Bank can build government systems for locally led approaches that can support inclusive and integrated climate action over time. These operational guidelines set out a vision and agenda for the World Bank on LLCA as an approach to project design and implementation that builds from global experience to accelerate locally led mitigation and adaptation at scale.
As an approach, LLCA aims to increase the share of finance received and managed by local actors, strengthen inclusive and participatory processes, improve decision-making over climate investments, and build the capacity, accountability, and transparency of institutions for sustainable low-carbon and resilient development. Readers will find practical insights on implementation and guidance that can support practitioners from the Bank and other organizations.
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