ACCF Portal

About the Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF)

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF or the Fund) is a multi-donor trust fund that compliments the African Development Bank’s (The Bank) target of tripling its climate financing and advancing Africa’s climate resilience

The ACCF was established in 2014 first as a bilateral thematic trust fund with an initial contribution of €4.725 million from Germany through its international development agency, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). 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 Government of Quebec joined the Fund in 2020. The Global Center on Adaptation, Governments of Austria and Ireland joined in 2022

The Fund was created to provide small grants to African governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), regional institutions, and private sector to support African countries to transition towards climate-resilient, low-carbon development.

The current size of the Fund is $40.64 million. Since its inception, the ACCF’s Governing Committees have approved 32 projects, with 9 projects completed and 2 projects cancelled.

Vision

CCF’s vision is to continue playing a significant role in supporting African countries to enhance their resilience to climate change impacts and to contribute to the Bank’s ambitious goal of tripling its share of climate change-related investments.

The ACCF supports projects through competitive Calls for Proposals and a Demand Driven Window, helping African countries access climate finance, update climate strategies, and implement adaptation initiatives. The Fund prioritizes gender equality and climate resilience, and its scope was extended to 2027 to align with Africa’s evolving needs and the Glasgow Climate Pact

Objectives

Building capacity of African stakeholders on climate change and scale up access to climate finance 1

Building capacity of African stakeholders on climate change and scale up access to climate finance2

Building capacity of African stakeholders on climate change and scale up access to climate finance3

Building capacity of African stakeholders on climate change and scale up access to climate finance4

Areas of Intervention

Access to climate finance and readiness Access to climate finance and readiness
Climate change policies and strategies Climate change policies and strategies
Institutional capacity building Community-led climate action
Gender equality and climate resilience Addressing Gender Inequality in Climate Action Projects

Eligible Beneficiaries

The Bank Departments can submit proposals directly, or work with eligible external beneficiaries to support them in preparing high quality proposals Internal
African governments:
Ministries departments and agencies, sub-national, local and municipal governments African research institutions:
Institutes must be legally registered in an African country and must have demonstrated credibility and track record African Funds:
Funds must be legally registered in an African country African regional organizations:
Intergovernmental Organizations, Regional organizations from the public sector UN Agencies may be considered on a case-by case basis Non-governmental organizations (NGOs):
Legally registered in Africa are eligible and in operational for more than 3 years Non-governmental organizations (NGOs):
Legally registered in Africa are eligible and in operational for more than 3 years
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