Grant Management to for Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Lesotho

About this project

The southern African region faces significant climate mitigation and adaptation challenges, including high vulnerability to extreme climate and rainfall fluctuations. Barriers to regional climate investments include a lack of affordable long-term financing, perceived financial and technology risks, high up-front capital costs and a lack of climate finance mechanisms. \nThe Green Climate Fund (GCF) Readiness and Preparatory Programme supports National Designated Authorities to build climate management capacity. The Lesotho Energy Programme contains six ready-to-build projects for the electricity sector in Lesotho. Three will mitigate existing emissions, and three will help “climate-proof” essential infrastructure. The programme will accelerate the nation toward its goal of secure, low-emission, renewable energy production by increasing the supply of domestic, clean renewable sources and extending grid-access electricity to more households. It will also build climate resiliency into threatened infrastructure. In addition to moving the nation toward these important objectives, the economic and environmental co-benefits of the project are significant; they include: strengthening the livelihoods of highly vulnerable households (including women- and child-headed households), creating temporary jobs, and slowing the trend of rapid deforestation.\nUNOPS supplies grant management support to the Green Climate Fund to improve resilience to climate change.\n

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United Nations Office for Project Services · Multilateral

Countries

Lesotho

Sectors

Environmental policy and administrative management

Implemented by

United Nations Office for Project Services

Accountable

United Nations Office for Project Services

Published by United Nations Office for Project Services to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 27 Jan 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: 41AAA-12293-012.

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