AAAP in the Media
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Conakry city climate stress test
Currently, Africa’s infrastructure needs are around USD 130–170 billion a year, with an investment gap of over 50–60% of that amount. Making Africa’s infrastructure resilient adds only an average of 3% to total costs, but every $1 spent could yield $4 of benefits.
The Africa Infrastructure Resilience Accelerator (Pillar 2 of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP)) focuses on accelerating infrastructure resilience efforts on the continent. It will strengthen the enabling environment and provide the technical support to scale up investment in resilient infrastructure. It will also ensure that new and existing infrastructure uses nature-based solutions and create positive socioeconomic impacts and green jobs. By 2025, Pillar 2 of the AAAP aims to scale up investment at national and city level for climate-resilient infrastructure in key sectors such as water, transport, energy, and waste management, and integrate resilience in up to 50% (by value) of new infrastructure projects.
The City Adaption Accelerators (CAAs) are carrying out Rapid Climate Risk Assessments in target cities, which aim to improve climate adaptation and build resilience in urban areas.
The primary purpose of the RCRAs is to inform the identification and preparation of AfDB projects.
The RCRAs will inform the development of a comprehensive climate adaptation strategy and prioritization plan and are a crucial step towards the development of the CAA for each of the target cities. The overarching objective of the CAA is to create a shared strategic framework for GCA’s engagement in climate adaptation and resilience building in urban areas. The development objective of the CAA is to support cities and countries to strengthen their urban climate adaptation and resilience outcomes through enhanced (1) understanding; (2) planning; (3) investments; and (4) governance and capacity building.
- Outputs will inform future discussions surrounding climate adaptation investments
- GCA is demonstrating its unique value add in its ability to provide technical guidance to firms towards developing well-informed analyses
- Literature review of vulnerability and adaptive capacity assessments of cities to climate change
- Scoping of past and current initiatives and key stakeholders relevant for adaptation and resilience building in cities
- City Scan: rapid review of actions around climate hazard and risk assessments and more locally focused assessments of vulnerability and adaptive capacity
- Rapid Climate Risk Assessment: an overview of the key climate hazards and associated risks; will indicate whether an in-depth climate risk assessment is required.
- City Scoping: provides insight into past and current initiatives relevant for adaptation and resilience building and identifies key stakeholders and relevant initiatives
As part of the CAA, the RCRAs will contribute to the following impacts:
- Strengthened urban climate risk management in cities and their hinterlands
- Improved climate adaptive spatial planning at the municipal and regional levels
- Enhanced water resources management for more equitable access to ecosystem benefits
- Enhanced resilience, consistency, inclusiveness and integration of urban drinking water, sanitation and solid waste management services
- Improved urban liveability and public health due to a reduction in climate risks stemming from heat stress and disease
€40,000
Reinforcing Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2-P2RS)
The Sahel, which lies between the Sahara Desert to the north and tropical savannas to the south, is one of the largest semi-arid/arid sub-regions globally. As such, the region is highly vulnerable to climate change and other uncertainties. The impacts of climate change may have critical socio-economic consequences for the Sahel, including poor agricultural yields, increased frequency of natural disasters. Already, the number of people in the Sahel suffering from chronic food and nutrition insecurity, poverty and vulnerability to the effects of climate change is rising steadily.
A lasting solution to food and nutrition insecurity in the Sahel requires building resilience to climate change, long-term agricultural sector financing and developing trade and regional integration. Sustained, longer-term investments in household resilience can significantly reduce the cost of emergency assistance, ultimately breaking the cycle of recurring famine. This is the most cost-effective intervention option which meets the basic needs and preserves the dignity of the populations of the Sahel. This idea is central to the Programme to Build Resilience to Food and Nutrition Insecurity in the Sahel (P2RS)
The overall objective of the P2-P2RS is to contribute to the substantial improvement of the living conditions and the food and nutritional security of the populations of the Sahel region.
Specifically, the program aims to i) strengthen the resilience to climate change of agro-sylvo-pastoral producers, including through promotion of climate-smart agricultural technologies in the Sahel and the development of climate intelligent villages; ii) develop the agro-sylvo-pastoral value chains, including through the development and improvement of hydro, meteorology and climate services; and iii) support regional institutions (CILSS, APGMV, CCRS) to strengthen adaptive capacity in the Sahel.
- Design digital adaptation solutions (Digital Climate Advisory Services, DCAS) for the Sahel context
- Investment readiness and infrastructure, institutional and farmer capacity needs for DCAS
- Feasibility study to integrate DCAS into agricultural extension and agrometeorological advisory to smallholder farmers and pastoralists
- 1 million rural households have access to digital or data-enabled climate-smart technologies
- 500,000 smallholders have adopted adaptation practices
- 5 million smallholders have access to climate services;
- Development and improvement of hydro, meteorology and climate services
- The development of climate-intelligent villages
- Promotion of climate-smart agricultural technologies in the Sahel
- Resilience to food and nutrition security built for the targeted populations
USD 300 million
African Development Bank participates in the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF)
What: African Development Bank participates in the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF)
Who: African Development Bank, Nordic Innovation and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, with international partners
When: 30 May - 2 June 2023
Where: Helsinki, Finland and online
A delegation led by African Development Bank Director of Climate Change and Green Growth Anthony Nyong, is at the 2023 World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF2023) in the Finnish capital Helsinki.
WCEF2023 is the seventh edition of the annual forum co-organised by Nordic Innovation and the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, with international partners, including the African Development Bank. The forum brings together business leaders, policymakers and experts from around the world to present the best circular economy solutions. WCEF examines how societies and businesses can seize new opportunities to accelerate the global transition towards a circular economy to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. WCEF is the world’s best known neutral global circular economy event and platform for the global circularity movement.
To leverage and build on the results of last year’s WCEF and showcase circular economy ambition in Africa, a strong engagement of the African Development Bank is planned at WCEF2023. This includes speaker roles at plenary sessions, side events and hosting an African delegation of six participants from member countries of the African Circular Economy Alliance (ACEA) and African organisations to participate and speak at the event alongside the Bank’s mission team.
African Development Bank Director of Climate Change and Green Growth Anthony Nyong will participate in a guided dialogue during a session titled “Unlocking Finance for a circular and regenerative economy” organised by Circle Economy together with European Investment Bank (EIB). ACEA, whose secretariat is based at the African Development Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, will join in a session titled “Circular strategies and road maps,” organised by The Global Alliance on Circular Economy and Resource Efficiency.
The African Development Bank will host a stand at the WCEF Exhibition Area. This will give the opportunity to African Circular Economy Facility (ACEF), ACEA and its partners to showcase solutions to a global audience to attract partners and financiers for scaleup.
The Bank organises / has interventions in the following sessions:
TUESDAY, 30 MAY
Plenary Sessions at Helsinki Fair Centre
9:30-10:30
IFI CEN high-level working meeting
13:30 - 14:45
Unlocking finance for a circular and regenerative economy
THURSDAY, 1 JUNE
Accelerator Sessions, venues across Helsinki
8:30-13:00 (UTC+3)
Place: Messukeskus conference centre, Messuaukio 1, Helsinki and online
Accelerator session: African Voices to circular Economy
10:00 – 13:00
Accelerator session: International Financing and Funding for World Circular Economy Business Opportunities
16:00 – 17:30
Accelerator session: A circular economy that works for everyone: ensuring a just and jobs-rich transition to a sustainable future for all
Official WCEF2023 website: https://wcef2023.com/about/
Accelerator Session: https://wcef2023.com/sessions/african-voices-showcasing-circular-economy-ambition-in-africa/
Confirm your live attendance as soon as possible by registering through this link
Livestream on the WCEF2023 website and YouTube channel.
Media contact: Sonia Borrini, Communications and Knowledge Management Specialist, Climate Change and Green Growth Department | email : s.borrini@afdb.org