At the 36th Council meeting of the Least Developed Countries Fund/Special Climate Change Fund (LDCF/SCCF), members approved the largest-to-date LDCF work program, in the amount of $203 million.
The LDCF work program included two programs and national projects in Angola, Cambodia, Chad, Comoros, Gambia, Guinea, Lao PDR, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, and Tanzania. The two program proposals consisted of:
- a global program focused on adaptation innovation, including Ethiopia, Lesotho, Malawi and Somalia;
- and a multi-trust fund program for the Great Green Wall Initiative involving Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Mauritania.
All projects considered in the work program had embedded gender equality considerations at the initial design stage. The projects and programs focus on: agriculture, fisheries and food security; nature-based solutions; water resources management; climate information services and early warning systems; disaster risk management; coastal zone management; climate-resilient transport; and urban resilience.
