Category: <span>Project Stories</span>

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Adaptation Fund Regional Projects Grow Collaborative Approaches to Adaptation

29 April 2019

Adaptation Fund Regional Projects Grow Collaborative Approaches to Adaptation The Adaptation Fund’s Programme of Regional Adaptation Projects has grown markedly since it bega...

Adaptation Fund Project Story – Rwanda

17 April 2019

Adaptation Fund Project Story-Rwanda Rural farmers disproportionately affected by extreme rainfall, flooding, erosion and landslides, as well as drought in recent years have seen t...

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Adaptation Fund in Colombia

20 December 2018

Reducing Risk and Vulnerability to Climate Change in Colombia The US$ 8.5 million project funded by the Adaptation Fund ‘Reducing Risk and Vulnerability to Climate Change in...

Adaptation Fund in India

19 June 2018

Adaptation Fund in India India is taking an innovative approach to combatting climate change by establishing six small-scale Adaptation Fund projects on the ground in diverse regio...

Adaptation Fund Project Story – Cuba

24 May 2018

‘The Song of the Birds Returns to Cuba’s Gulf Coast’ A US$ 6 million Adaptation Fund project is helping communities in Cuba that have been vulnerable to coastal flooding and...

Adaptation Fund In South Africa

3 May 2017

  In the rural northwestern Namakwa District of South Africa’s rolling Northern Cape, the negative effects of climate change are becoming commonplace. Climate change projectio...

Adaptation Fund in Costa Rica

16 February 2017

  In Costa Rica local indigenous communities that are among the country’s most economically- and climate-vulnerable groups depend on agriculture to survive, however many membe...

Adaptation Fund in Morocco

26 October 2016

  In Morocco, over 1.7 million people who are largely dependent on agriculture and livestock have been challenged by extreme dry weather, recurrent droughts, water scarcity, u...

The pilot Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility in South Africa funded by AF and implemented by AF’s accredited National Implementing Entity for South Africa the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), aims to channel resources to support responses to climate change that are identified and implemented by affected local communities. If approved for implementation, the projects will increase local resilience through the implementation of pragmatic adaptation responses in Mopani. Photo: SANBI

SANBI Project Moving Forward with Five New Small Grant Projects Approved for Project Development

2 September 2016

The pilot Community Adaptation Small Grants Facility in South Africa funded by the Adaptation Fund (AF) has reached another milestone with the approvals of project development supp...

Adaptation Fund in Uruguay

15 April 2016

In Uruguay, smallholders form the backbone of Uruguayan agriculture representing nearly two-thirds of all farmers, but lag behind their larger counterparts in productivity, ideal c...