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Publication date: November 2022
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Abstract
The least developed countries (LDCs) through various channels have repeatedly expressed that they face multiple challenges and complexities in accessing funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the formulation and implementation of their national adaptation plans (NAPs). These include capacity to write project proposals, meeting the stringent requirements of GCF funding proposals, promoting funding proposals from multiple stakeholders such as those at the subnational and local government level, and ensuring that countries’ support needs for a long-term process are met through limited, one-off funding designed for projects over a fixed time frame. This has resulted in lower progress in accessing support and thereby limited progress in adaptation in the LDCs.
To address the abovementioned issues, the LEG is supporting all the LDCs to move towards successful adaptation by helping each to initiate and submit project proposals to the GCF and other sources of funding for implementing adaptation priorities associated with their NAPs. The LEG also supports the LDCs in completing the formulation of their first NAPs.
The support involves rounds of dialogues with countries to identify their project ideas, collect information towards elaborating those ideas, engaging with the countries through NAP writing workshops to elaborate details on the project ideas, and assisting the countries in further developing those with the support of relevant entities. The work is carried out in collaboration with the GCF and related entities. In 2022, the LEG conducted two regional NAP writing workshops for the African and Asia-Pacific LDCs. The workshop for the Asia-Pacific LDCs took place in Siem Reap, Cambodia from 12 to 15 July 2022, and the one for the African LDCs took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 26 to 26 March 2022.
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