Submission Deadline: 8 August 2014
Sylvio Combey Combetey
Award: US$ 250,000 or more for climate finance readiness activities in African countries.
The new Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), housed in the Energy, Environment and Climate Change Department of the African Development Bank (AfDB), is launching its first call for grant proposals.
The first call for proposals objectives are, on the one hand, to enhance the capacity of African countries to improve their national institutional governance for direct and international access to climate finance, and on the other hand, to develop transformational policies, programs and projects for climate resilience and low carbon growth, in alignment with UNFCCC decisions.
Examples of activities to be supported.
- Support for national climate finance institutions in relation to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) implementation, such as National Designated Authorities (NDA) and implementing entities like national development banks and other financial intermediaries;
- Collating and reviewing existing country plans and strategies to prioritize transformational opportunities, and to identify thematic and geographic programmatic options;
- Technical assistance in the implementation of National Adaptation Planning (NAP) processes, including through the support for projects consistent with NAP priorities;
- Economic and technical evaluation of options for infrastructure development (in individual sectors, or across sectors) in as many climate scenarios as possible;
- Preparation of programs and projects that promote low carbon development in sectors such as power, transport, forestry, and agriculture;
- Technical assistance for the preparation of programs and projects that enhance the resilience of the current climatic variability and change in vulnerable areas and sectors (agriculture, water resource management, transport, urban development, etc.);
- Development of frameworks to raise finance for climate action (e.g. investment plans to leverage climate finance, especially from the private sector);
- Sharing knowledge and experiences through regional meetings and south-south dialogue, in cooperation with institutions and mechanisms under the UNFCCC, such as the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG) or the Nairobi Work Programme.
Interested eligible beneficiaries are invited to get in touch with the AfDB field office in their country or with the ACCF Secretariat for more information: africaclima...@afdb.org
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