Climate Finance Policy Consultant for National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development

As a national accredited entity of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Cambodia, the National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development (NCDD) has received funding under the GCF’s Readiness and Preparatory Support Program to development the Sub-National Climate Fund (SCF) in Cambodia. This SCF is jointly implemented by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and NCDDS, with support from the Ministry of Environment (MoE) and Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). The SCF is implemented as phase III of the Local Governments and Climate Change (LGCC), with focusing on the gradual national wide scale-up of the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) as a national mechanism for channeling adaptation finance to the local level.

LoCAL as an initiative of the UNCDF, provides a country-led framework to enhance local awareness and responsiveness to climate change. It aims to integrate climate change adaptation into local government planning and budgeting processes in a participatory and gender-responsive manner and also increasing the financial resources available to local authorities for adaptation efforts. The LoCAL mechanism combines performance-based climate resilience grants (PBCRGs) with technical assistance and capacity building support. It also employs a demonstration effect to catalyze additional financial flows for local adaptation through national fiscal transfers and international climate finance mechanism.

NCDD is an intermenstrual mechanism for promoting democratic development through decentralization and de-concentration reforms. Its NCDDS core mission is to coordinate of the implementation of the National Programme for Sub-National Democratic Development that straightly committed to addressing climate change issues at local level.