About
AFRI-RES is a partnership between the African Union, African Development Bank, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the World Bank Group that was established with support from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). It seeks to set up an Africa-based centre of technical competence and excellence to assist governments, planners and private developers in Africa to integrate climate change in project planning and design, thereby attracting funding from both development and climate finance sources.
Assistance Criteria
The AFRI-RES initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of African institutions (including national governments, river basin organisations, regional economic communities, power pools, and others) and the private sector to plan, design, and implement investments in selected sectors to increase their resilience to climate change.
Countries
Support
AFRI-RES provides catalytic grants to World Bank projects during the project design phase to enhance climate resilience outcomes of these investments and generate knowledge and learning. World Bank project teams use the funds in a variety of ways, including:
- Climate risk assessments
- Capacity building trainings
- Climate studies
- Hiring technical experts