Adapt’Action

Project

Project start date: June 19, 2017

Status
Closed
Project end date: August 19, 2021
Financing amount (Euro): € 3,5m
Country and region: France

Funded by AFD, Adapt’Action supports countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their commitments to the fight against climate change.

Making the Paris Agreement operational

Following the Paris Climate Agreement, AFD has launched Adapt’Action to support countries seeking technical assistance for the institutional, methodological and operational implementation of their commitments to the fight against climate change.

With an objective of EUR 30m over a 4-year period, Adapt’Action will support 15 countries with a priority focus on Africa, the least developed countries (LDCs), and small island developing States (SIDS), which are among the most vulnerable countries to climate change.

The challenge now lies in the implementation of the Paris Agreement and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted by 163 countries, following COP21. These NDCs refer to the concrete commitments made by the countries concerned in their fight against climate change.

The Adapt’Action program aims to bring about climate projects that can be financed by AFD and international climate finance. Priority is given to adaptation to the impacts of climate change, a field for which the most vulnerable countries have expressed a specific need for assistance.

Adapt’Action is based on three areas of operation:

• Support for “climate” capacity building and governance for the consolidation, implementation and supervision of the NDCs (implemented by Expertise France);

• Support for a better integration of the commitments made in the NDCs into sectoral public policies, particularly in the field of adaptation to climate change (implemented by AFD);

• Support for the preparation of structural programs in the field of adaptation to climate change (implemented by AFD).