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Adaptation Benefits Mechanism

The Adaptation Benefits Mechanism (ABM) is a results-based financing instrument designed to catalyze private investment into adaptation projects through grants ...

Seychelles Debt for Climate (DFC) swap

In 2017, the Seychelles became the first country to successfully undertake a debt for climate (DFC) swap aimed at specifically ...

West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project (WACA)

The WACA program is aimed at strengthening the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa. It was ...

Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund II

ASFFII is a private equity fund that invests in companies active in the sustainable forestry value chain. Managed by Criterion ...

Komaza Smallholder Forestry Vehicle (SFV)

A forestry business based in Kenya whose mission is to move small-scale farmers out of poverty. SFV is an instrument ...

African Conservancies Fund (ACF)

The ACF was established by Conservation International (CI) with the objective to align economic and conservation objectives in the communities ...

Restoration Insurance Service Company (RISCO)

RISCO is a first-of-its-kind social enterprise that overcomes existing barriers to mangrove protection by connecting the adaptation and mitigation values ...

Enhancing Climate Change Adaptation in the North Coast and Nile Delta Regions in Egypt

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is co-financing the “Enhancing climate change adaptation in the North Coast and Nile Delta Regions ...

Subnational Climate Fund

A major barrier for cities in effectively addressing climate shocks is the low capacity and fiscal autonomy to allocate budgets ...

Cooling as a Service (CaaS)

Urbanization is contributing to growing energy demand and costs associated with providing cooling in cities. CaaS aims to deploy efficient ...

Climate Resilience and Adaptation Finance & Technology Transfer Facility (CRAFT)

CRAFT, from the Lightsmith Group, is the first commercial investment vehicle to focus on expanding the availability of technologies and ...

Long-term FX Risk Management (TCX)

TCX is a currency hedging solution that addresses two major financing barriers to energy investment in developing countries—currency risk and ...

Climate Investor Two

Climate Investor Two, from Climate Fund Managers (of Climate Investor One, which reached final close at USD 850 million in ...

Climate Adaptation Notes

Climate Adaptation Notes is a structured funding mechanism aimed at increasing private, commercial bank debt, and institutional investment in water ...

Sustainable Development of Abu Rawash Wastewater Treatment Plant

With a project cost estimated at USD 390 million, the project aims to increase adaptive capacity and water supply through ...

UBS Optimus Foundation Social Success Note

This social success note (SSN) is designed to help provide schools in Uganda with access to clean water. Starting with ...

Food Securities Fund

The Food Securities Fund seeks to provide working capital loans to agricultural aggregators (cooperatives, processors, traders) operating in developing and ...

Credit Guarantee Scheme for Smallholder Coffee Producers

A credit guarantee scheme (CGS) provides third-party risk mitigation to banks or lenders where a percentage of lenders losses due ...

Subsidized Impact Investing Funds – AgDevCo

AgDevCo is a specialized subsidized impact investor and project developer that focuses on early-stage small and medium agri-businesses that contribute ...

African Risk Capacity

The African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a sovereign risk pool and early response mechanism designed to provide insurance to countries ...

World Food Program (WFP) Cash transfers and vouchers in response to drought in Mozambique

Cash transfer programs including the World Food Program (WFP) effort for Mozambique provide unconditional cash transfers to poor and vulnerable ...

Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) Ethiopia

Ethiopian smallholder farmers are heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture. The Ethiopian government launched the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in ...

Green Aggregation Tech Enterprise (GATE)

GATE addresses the barrier of revenue risks associated with providing mini grids to rural customers lacking credit histories. A baseline ...

PPP Scale-up of Private Participation in Road Assets

Outside of the African context, in Cambodia, the World Bank is supporting implementation of performance-based contracts to increase private sector ...

Lesotho Transport Infrastructure and Connectivity Project

The IDA’s Lesotho Transport Infrastructure and Connectivity project aims to improve access to social services in rural Lesotho, strengthen road ...

Rural Resilience Initiative

R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4) was launched in 2011 by the World Food Program (WFP) and Oxfam America (OA) to ...

Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE)

The Agriculture and Climate Risk Enterprise (ACRE) is the largest input-linked, mobile-enabled index insurance programme in Africa. Smallholders buy agricultural ...
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