Burkinabé Communities Use Performance-Based Grants to Invest in Climate-Resilient Agriculture and Water

In three regions across Burkina Faso, communities are taking the lead in finding solutions to adapt and build their resilience to the impacts of climate change, with performance-based climate resilience grants from the UN Capital Development Fund. Investments in rice-growing, high-value and nutritious vegetables and smart agriculture techniques are being coupled with improved access to water, bolstering livelihoods in this landlocked nation where soaring temperatures and erratic rainfalls are fueling desertification and drought.

The UNCDF designed the Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) to help strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities such as Saponé in the Centre-Sud Region, Loumbila in the Plateau-Central Region and Pabré in the Centre Region of Burkina Faso. Their residents are now among the 18 million people worldwide to have seen the positive returns from locally conceived adaptation investments with LoCAL, which applies the use of performance based grants.