The Climate Risk Management and Adaptation Strategy (CRMA)

The Bank recognises the importance of integrating climate risk management and adaptation (CRMA) in its development assistance to RMCs.  

In supporting CRMA, the Bank Group will aim to serve two goals:

• The first goal of the CRMA is to assist African countries to strengthen their capacities to respond effectively to the risks, threats and opportunities (if any) posed by climate change, variability and extremes – to protect communities; sustain economic growth, development and poverty reduction; and protect critical natural resources and ecosystems.

The Bank works in the following areas to promote this goal:

• Protecting the health and safety of communities
• Supporting agriculture and food security
• Protecting major ecosystems and renewable natural resources
• Upgrading economic and social infrastructure.
• In so doing, the Bank Group concentrates its efforts in three types of intervention:
  • Knowledge generation, information dissemination, and capacity building
  • Policy, legal and regulatory reforms and institutional innovations
  • Investment responses.

• The second goal of the CRMA is to ensure that Bank Group operational investments in RMCs attain their intended development results and yield benefits over their normal economic lifespan, in the face of the destructive impacts of climate change.