{"id":5710,"date":"2025-11-28T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/?p=5710"},"modified":"2025-11-28T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T03:04:00","slug":"african-development-fund-commits-14-million-grant-to-scaling-up-climate-resilience-across-the-sahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eandelmagazine.com\/eandelmagazine\/african-development-fund-commits-14-million-grant-to-scaling-up-climate-resilience-across-the-sahel\/","title":{"rendered":"African Development Fund commits $14 million grant to scaling up climate resilience across the Sahel"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, the Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has approved a grant of $14.64 million to support Project 2 of the Programme to Strengthen Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2-P2RS) in Abidjan on 21 November 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Climate Action Window grant will cover 30 municipalities and support the creation of 60 climate-smart villages across Sahelian countries, helping to strengthen community resilience to climate shocks<\/p>\n

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\nThe additional financing is provided through the Climate Action Window, a climate-focused funding mechanism of the African Development Fund, the concessional lending window of the African Development Bank Group.<\/p>\n

The grant aims to strengthen the adaptation and resilience capacities of communities across the Sahel as they face increasingly severe climate extremes. The project adopts a dual approach: scaling up the “climate-smart villages” model around hydro-agricultural infrastructure, and improving access to and use of climate information for decision-making.<\/p>\n

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\nThe new funding will support the regional seed system by disseminating resilient, high-yielding improved seed varieties. Planned activities include updating the Regional Catalogue of Species and Varieties; creating a business-to-business networking portal; and strengthening seed multiplication capacities of national agricultural research systems and seed companies to ensure availability in climate-smart villages. The project will also support women’s and youth empowerment through targeted capacity-building.<\/p>\n

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\nIn addition, the project will reinforce climate data collection and impact monitoring systems, enhancing real-time data availability from observation networks. It will establish an integrated digital platform for data collection, management, and real-time dissemination, as well as a regional system for monitoring and managing loss and damage data. This includes standardising loss and damage reporting across countries and developing a multi-scale digital platform for the centralised data management.<\/p>\n

The Climate Action Window grant will cover 30 municipalities and support the creation of 60 climate-smart villages across Sahelian countries, helping to strengthen community resilience to climate shocks.<\/p>\n

SOURCE: African Development Bank Group (AfDB)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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