Financing Locally Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) - Financing Locally Led Climate Action (FLLoCA)- Regional Africa Strategy Finansiering av lokalt drivna klimatåtgärder The Government of Kenya (GoK) is looking to enhance the delivery of locally-led climate resilience actions in order to increase communities’ resilience to climate change and other hazards. The proposed Contribution is titled Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) which aims to contribute to a low carbon development pathway with enhanced climate resilience towards the attainment of Vision 2030 (Kenya's development blueprint) and beyond. 

The FLLoCA program will be implemented as a hybrid Program for Results (PforR) and Investment Project Financing (IPF). The IPF component will support climate risk management capacities at the national level while the PforR component will support the GoK’s program to address climate change at the county level by financing climate resilience actions and increasing County Government's (CGs’) climate risk management capacities.

The Contribution is a follow up of the just concluded (2013-2020) Sida and United Kingdom Department for International Development (formerly DFID) support to International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)/Adaconsortium (Contribution number 11085). The Adaconsortium supported 5 Counties (Garissa, Isiolo, Kitui, Makueni, and Wajir) to implement the National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) through the County Climate Change Fund (CCCF). This phase will be national in scale (with the agreement partner being the World Bank), linking local level action to national level coordination and planning.

WBG has submitted a proposal with a total budget of 173.2USDM for the entire FLLoCA Programme (2021-2026), which shall be under WB's Social Sustainability for All (SSI4ALL) Trust Fund. With this figure, 87% (150MUSD) is from WBG as credit to the Kenyan Government, 5% (9MUSD) from Government of Denmark as a grant and 8% (14.2MUSD equivalent to 120MSEK) from Sida.

Covid-19 pandemic has been identified among the major risks with potential threat towards realization of the Contribution's objective which Sida has to monitor and adapt where necessary. Kenyas regering (GoK) vill förbättra leveransen av lokalt ledda åtgärder för klimatresiliens för att öka samhällens motståndskraft mot klimatförändringar och andra risker. Den föreslagna insatsen heter Financing Locally-Led Climate Action (FLLoCA) som syftar till att bidra till en utvecklingsväg med låga koldioxidutsläpp och förbättrad klimatresiliens för att nå Vision 2030 (Kenyas utvecklingsplan) och därefter. 

FLLoCA-programmet kommer att implementeras som ett hybridprogram med två komponenter; Performance for Results, PforR och Investment Project Financing, IPF. IPF-komponenten kommer att stödja kapaciteten för hantering av klimatrisker på nationell nivå, medan PforR-komponenten kommer att stödja GoKs program för att adressera klimatförändringar på länsnivå genom att finansiera åtgärder för klimatresiliens och öka Council of governors (CG) kapacitet att hantera klimatrisker.

Insatsen är en fortsättning av av den just avslutade (2013–2020) Adaconsortium insatsen (insatssnummer 11085) implementerad av  International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) samt finansierad av Sida och Storbritanniens avdelning för internationell utveckling (tidigare DFID). Adaconsortium stödde 5 län (Garissa, Isiolo, Kitui, Makueni och Wajir) för att genomföra den nationella handlingsplanen för klimatförändringar (NCCAP) genom County Climate Change Fund (CCCF). Den nya fasen kommer att genomföras på nationell skala (med avtalspartnern Världsbanken) och kopplar åtgärder på lokal nivå till samordning och planering på nationell nivå.

Världsbanken har lämnat in ett förslag med en total budget på 173,2 miljoner USD för hela FLLoCA-programmet (2021-2026), som ska ligga under Världsbankens Social Sustainability for All (SSI4ALL) Trust Fund. I detta belopp är 87% (150mUSD) från Världsbanken som kredit till den kenyanska regeringen, 5% (9 mUSD) från Danmarks regering som ett bidrag och 8% (14,2 mUSD motsvarande 120 mkr) från Sida.

Covid-19-pandemin har identifierats som en av de stora riskerna som potentiellt hot mot genomförandet av insatsens mål och som ambassaden måste övervaka och anpassa vid behov. The Program seeks to deliver locally-led climate resilience actions and strengthening county and national governments capacity to manage climate risk with the long-term aim of increasing local-level resilience to climate change and other hazards. The PforR component will finance county-level performance grants that will result in a portfolio of climate resilience actions/investments addressing communities priorities (the first project medium-term outcome) and an increased capacity of County Governments (CGs) to manage climate risk (the second project medium-term outcome at the county level).

The IPF component will finance national-level capacity building actions and operationalize the Inter-Agency Climate Finance Technical Advisory Committee (CF-TAC - comprising representatives from relevant line ministries, the Chairperson of the Council of Governors (CoG), and representatives from the private sector, civil society, vulnerable and marginalized groups, academia, and development partners], which is the official cross-sectoral climate coordination entity, resulting in an increased capacity of the national government to manage climate risk (the second medium-term outcome at the national level).

The Contribution has identified critical assumptions necessary in order to achieve objectives. These include CoGs willingness to participate in the Program; the ability of counties to meet performance conditions to allow them to access grant resources; effective participatory processes and use of climate risk mapping results to select climate resilience investments; national entities willingness to work together; and effective implementation of selected climate resilience investments.