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AFRICA
ADAPTATION
INITIATIVE

Climate adaptation for Africa, by Africa

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OUR CHALLENGE

Across Africa, the devastating impacts of climate change are increasing, from floods and droughts to food and water insecurity. Loss and damage caused by our climate crisis threatens the continent’s economic growth- by 2050, Africa’s adaptation costs could soar. Yet climate adaptation is slowing, and there is a huge adaptation finance gap.

OUR MISSION

The Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) seeks to accelerate Africa’s adaptation to climate change by strengthening collaboration through high-level, pan-African and regional dialogue, large-scale climate adaptation action, and addressing the adaptation finance gap.

IMPLEMENTING ADAPTATION ACTION AT SCALE

Implement high-potential, large scale Flagship programs, including the following six Flagship Programs:
APIA

Pan-African AAI Adaptation Project Incubator for Africa, which aims at supporting the governments of participating African countries’ efforts to undertake the transition towards low emission and climate resilient development.

FSA

Food Security Accelerator, which will highly increase public and private investments in private sector-led adaptation solutions for the agri-food sector, leading to strong upscaling of adaptation actions.

PAN AFRICAN READINESS

Pan-African Readiness Program, supporting the Nationally Designated Authorities (NDAs) to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) of 23 African countries to build the necessary long-lasting capacity needed to identify, design, and develop transformational climate interventions.

ECOVERSE

ECOVERSE, which will provide sustainable financing for gender-sensitive, low-emission, and climate-resilient development in rural Africa, enabling developing hundreds of comprehensive climate resilient villages and communities across Africa.

AFA

Adaptation Finance Academy, that works to both increase adaptation action in the continent through the development and implementation support to specific programs, and vastly increase the capacity of institutions within the continent to take that work forward and generate bankable projects on their own.

4IR

The 4IR Climate Solutions Hub, which aims to enable African countries and stakeholders to leverage the many opportunities that the Fourth Industrial Revolution provides for improving and increasing adaptation action.

OVERVIEW

The Africa Adaptation Initiative (AAI) has received financial support from the European Union for the implementation of the Adaptation Projects Incubator for Africa (APIA) Programme over three years (2024-2026).
Among its key activities, the APIA Programme is establishing a pool of 125 high-level African climate finance experts to provide technical assistance to Direct Access Entities (DAEs), governments, financial institutions, and other stakeholders in navigating the complex financing mechanisms of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Adaptation Fund (AF).
In this regard, AAI is launching a call for applications to recruit and train an initial cohort of 40 African experts (residing on and/or outside the continent). The selected candidate will undergo an intensive certified training program aimed at equipping them with the necessary technical expertise to support DAEs and other climate finance actors in Africa.
AAI invites qualified candidates with 8 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 5 years in climate finance, to submit their applications no later than March 11, 2025, at 23:59 GMT.
African experts from diverse backgrounds and geographical locations are encouraged to apply, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to participate in this initiative.

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