Africa Climate Change Fund

The ACCF Secretariat recently shortlisted 10 projects and identified 6 projects in its pipeline under the third Call for Proposals (CFP3) on Gender Equality and Climate Change. In 2022, 7 new projects have been approved for funding by the ACCF Governing Committees under the CFP3. Likewise, under the Demand Driven Window (DDW), 4 new projects were approved for funding in 2022. The DDW launched in 2020, is a new funding window opened outside the regular Calls for Proposals (CFP) to provide more targeted support to countries less represented in the ACCF projects portfolio and to diversify the thematic areas covered by the Fund on a demand basis.

The ACCF currently has no new calls for proposals and its DDW is closed. Visit our page to learn more about our upcoming CFP and DDW.

About the ACCF

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF or Fund) is a multi-donor trust fund well positioned to contribute to the achievement of the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s goal to triple its climate financing efforts and foster its drive for a climate-resilient Africa. The AfDB established the ACCF in April 2014 with an initial contribution of € 4.725 million from the Government of Germany to support African countries build their resilience to the negative impacts of climate change and transition to sustainable low-carbon growth. ACCF was converted to a Multi-donor Trust fund in 2017 with contributions from the Governments of Flanders, Belgium and Italy. The Global Affairs Canada and the Government of Quebec joined the Fund in 2020 and the Global Center on Adaptation in 2022. The current trust size is USD $25.71 million.

In 2022, the Board of Directors of the African Development Bank and the ACCF donors approved an amendment to the scope of the Fund to align with the Bank Trust fund Policy 2021 and support the increased ambition of African countries expressed in the Glasgow Climate Pact and the ongoing negotiations under the Paris Agreement and the Conventions on Biological Diversity and the Combating Desertification. The amendments broaden and strengthen the objectives of the Fund, and its beneficiaries. African Governments, non-governmental organizations, local communities, funds, research institutes and regional institutions, and private companies, can now benefit from the Fund’s grants. Grants may be accessed by private sector operators with exemplary projects that are new, semi-commercial and require significant development work.

Since its inception in 2014, the ACCF Governing Committees have approved 26 grant projects for a total of USD $15.89 million. The Fund has completed 7 projects and 1 project cancelled.  These approved projects are supporting over 26 African countries via country and multinational projects to strengthen their capacities to access international climate finance, Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) revisions, Long Term Strategies development, and implementation of small-scale adaptation projects to enhance their resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Check out our new website here  https://accf.afdb.org/

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