Locally-led Adaptation (LLA)

Locally-led Adaptation (LLA) is a distinct approach that goes beyond consultative, participatory, and community-based methods by empowering local actors with agency over adaptation decisions and processes. This is crucial to ensure that those most affected by climate change have a direct say in adaptation finance and programming that impacts their lives. LLA has the potential to address structural inequalities faced by marginalized groups such as women, youth, children, people with disabilities, displaced persons, Indigenous Peoples, and ethnic minorities. It can aid in mobilizing more climate finance by improving the quality of funding and adjusting governance and decision-making processes to ensure the agency of local actors in adaptation planning and implementation. Furthermore, LLA serves as a catalyst to integrate social equity into standard processes and decisions, and by investing in mechanisms specifically designed to support groups that experience disproportional vulnerabilities due to climate change. (ICCCAD)