LoCAL Climate Resilience Financing Mechanism in the Solomon Islands Contract related to: LoCAL Climate Resilience Financing Mechanism in the Solomon Islands - As a Small Islands Developing State (SIDS), the Solomon Islands are highly vulnerable to climate change. Changing weather patterns affect communities in different ways, including loss of agricultural production and food security, water stress and insecurity, rising sea levels and exposure to climate disasters, changes to ecosystems and loss of biodiversity, and human health. The problem is compounded by the fact that the Provincial Governments (PGs) that have direct responsibility for addressing many of the climate change issues are unable to access the necessary funding. PGs have a mandate for coastal defences and water management, but financing for climate change adaptation is often undertaken through limited parallel, or off-budget, financing systems. This precludes Local Governments (LGs) from accessing resources to improve climate resilience in their communities. The proposed Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) mechanism is designed to address this problem by providing access to climate finance for local governments, primarily in Least Developed Countryies. LoCAL¿s methodology channels funds through central governments to reach the local level while providing incentives for LGs to mainstream gender responsive climate-adaptive thinking into everyday planning and investment, thereby encouraging systematic analysis of changing weather patterns and their impacts on local communities and economies. Climate change adaptation and coastal resilience have the potential to also address biodiversity conservation, restoration and sustainable use of natural resources as well as climate change mitigation (e.g. through nature-based solutions and women¿s full, equal and meaningful participation). The proposed action will be targeting these aspects too as part of biodiversity-specific objectives in accordance with the Green Deal.LoCAL will apply the Provincial Capacity Development Fund (PCDF) mechanism and empower the PGs to perform their roles through developing and funding adaptation and climate related disaster risk reduction strategies and plans, including climate induced displacement, and climate change adaptation (CCA) infrastructure and services. With improved capacity, PGs will be well placed to access additional national and international CCA funds through central government and act as coordinating agencies for integrated local climate response while providing the continuity and maintenance capacity that is often lacking from time-bound projects. Beyond supporting PGs to increase access to CCA financing, LoCAL will also support PGs¿ access to technical expertise on climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, in particular climate-induced displacement, gender responsive approach to support the implementation of CCA projects funded through Performance-Based Climate Resilience Grants (PBCRG) and to strengthen the entire project cycle from planning, execution to actual monitoring.The proposed action aims at contributing to all three priority areas under the Pacific Multi-Country MIP 2021-2027, mainly priority area 1 `Climate Action and Environmental Sustainability¿ but also priority areas 2 `Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Development¿ and 3 `Fundamental Values, Human Development, Peace and Security¿.It contributes to the OECD gender marker G1; DAC 410 ¿ General Environment Protection and DAC 151 ¿ Government &amp; Civil Society-general.