Grants and Contributions

This project aims to increase smallholder farmers’ sustainable agricultural productivity and incomes, including women and youth in Africa. It seeks this through the Africa Fertilizer Financing Mechanism, a special fund established by the African Union`s member states and managed by the African Development Bank.
Project activities include: (1) providing financial products and support (i.e., credit guarantees) to targeted small and medium enterprises. It does so to improve smallholder farmers’ access to fertilizers and other critical inputs, particularly for food crops; (2) supporting the advocacy and development of policy reforms to enhance fertilizers availability and productivity and soil health; and (3) facilitating smallholder farmers (including women and youth) access to inputs, technical assistance, and extension services to improve food production, revenues and soil health.

The project aims to increase the productivity of three selected strategic commodities by a minimum of 30%. It does so through adopting better fertilization and plant health plans. The project seeks to reach a minimum of 800,000 farmers (at least 40% women). It also seeks to support at least three policy and regulatory reform initiatives in selected countries. These initiatives address the legal, structural, and technical challenges of accessing and using fertilizers and soil, health and safety, and environmental stewardship and advocacy.

This project supports the Africa Disaster Risk Financing program’s multi-donor trust fund. It seeks to strengthen the resilience of vulnerable communities, women, and girls to climate disasters in six African countries by adopting ex-ante climate disaster risk financing instruments. The project contributes to improving the capacity of governments and private sector actors for efficient and timely gender-sensitive responses to climate disasters. It does so by increasing access to climate disaster risk financing instruments. It also seeks to enhance protection against climate shocks by improving preparation and response to climate disasters.

Project activities include: (1) conducting risk diagnostics to develop climate disaster risk financing strategies; (2) collaborating with the African Risk Capacity in Regional Member Countries to train and carry out workshops to develop gender-responsive contingency and response plans; and (3) facilitating premium subsidies payments for climate disaster risk insurance. This project directly benefits women and men who are vulnerable to climactic shock.

P006570001: The objective of the Canada AfDB Climate Fund (CACF) is to enable climate change mitigation and adaptation projects with strong gender-responsive components in African developing countries. The CACF aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emission by scaling up renewable energy, supporting energy efficient projects, and developing green infrastructure and sustainable cities (e.g. waste management, urban transport, green infrastructure, digital solutions). The CACF also intends to support climate change adaptation and build climate resilience by helping to deliver climate-smart solutions for local economies, including clean energy (e.g. off-grid solar energy, clean cooking technology), climate-smart agriculture, and nature-based solutions (e.g. sustainable forestry). Gender equality, particularly the empowerment of women and girls, will be an objective across all concessional financing of the CACF, aiming at direct, measurable gender equality outcomes.

P006570002: The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) will be part of the overall Canada-AfDBDevelopment Bank Climate Fund (CACF), which is aimed at enabling climate change mitigation and adaptation projects with strong gender-responsive components in African developing countries. The TAF will support projects in the CACF pipeline to address the increased technical complexity, coordination requirements and reporting obligations related to climate finance operations, as well as support project preparation activities that accelerate project development towards bankability. The TAF will provide grants to Eligible Projects under consideration or implementation that: (i) seek to address the specific costs and risks related to project preparation; (ii) increase the potential for achieving optimal results on key areas, such as gender and human rights, during project origination, implementation and supervision; and (iii) enhance knowledge management, monitoring, evaluation, and learning from CACF activities, not already covered by the Supervision fee in Section 2.4 Part I of the Arrangement. Proceeds from the TAF may also be used to contract consulting support for origination, program management, and monitoring and evaluation of Eligible Projects, as needed

This project contributes to the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF), focusing on gender equality and climate action in Africa. This funding supports small-scale, climate-resilient projects aimed at increasing women’s economic empowerment and initiatives enhancing women’s participation in climate negotiations in countries across Africa. Project activities include: (1) supporting women and girls in climate change adaptation work and other grantees seeking to address opportunities and challenges for women in the transition to low-carbon economies; and (2) organizing training, outreach and awareness-raising activities to increase women’s participation in climate negotiations and to promote the integration of gender equality issues in national climate plans (NDC) and other national climate change strategies.

The project beneficiaries include women entrepreneurs and their communities in adapting to climate change, government officials working on climate change strategies and negotiations, and stakeholders seeking to integrate gender equality considerations into the NDC process.