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Adaptation Fund - Readiness Grants

The Adaptation Fund was established to finance concrete adaptation projects and programs in developing countries that are parties to the Kyoto Protocol and are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

The Adaptation Fund's Readiness Programme for Climate Finance aims to help strengthen the capacity of national and regional implementing entities to receive and manage climate financing, particularly through the Direct Access modality. The Adaptation Fund Board has made available several small grants under the Readiness Programme to help National Implementing Entities (NIEs) provide peer support to countries seeking accreditation with the Fund and to build capacity for undertaking various climate finance readiness activities.

These grants include:

South-South Cooperation Grants (SSCs) meant to increase peer-to-peer support among accredited National Implementing Entities (NIEs) and those seeking accreditation. These grants are aimed at strengthening the capacity of countries seeking accreditation with the Fund to undertake activities, and to prepare and submit relevant documents that lead to accreditation with the Fund.

Project Formulation Assistance Grants (PFAs) offer additional small grants on top of Project Formulation Grants (PFGs) and available for NIEs that need funding to undertake a specific technical assessment (i.e. environmental impact assessment, vulnerability assessment etc.) during the project preparation and design stage.

Technical Assistance Grants (TAs) offer small grants to help NIEs build their capacity to address and manage environmental and social as well as gender associated risks within their projects/programmes in accordance with the Fund’s Environmental and Social Policy (ESP) and Gender Policy. Through this grant, NIEs have the option to hire consultant(s) to help them address these issues. There are two types of Technical Assistance grants:

The TA Grants for ESP and Gender Policy help enable NIEs to put in place safeguards to address social and environmental risks as wells as gender related issues posed by adaptation projects and programmes.
The TA Grant for Gender Policy enable NIEs that have previously received a TA Grant for ESP before the Fund’s Gender Policy was in place (as of 2016) to update their environmental and social safeguards by integrating gender within their social and environmental policies and procedures.

Support provider

Adaptation Fund

Purpose of support

Creating enabling environments and building institutional capacity

Scoping and project preparation

Eligible countries and regions

Developing country members of the Kyoto Protocol. For a full list, please see the UNFCCC list of parties here.

Eligibility criteria

To receive money directly from the Adaptation Fund, entities need to be accredited as a National Implementing Entity, such as a country’s environment ministry. Only one NIE can be accredited per developing country. A list of currently accredited institutions can be found on the Adaptation Fund’s website.

Financial instruments

Grants

Average time for accessing the source

Accreditation generally takes <20 months for National and Regional Implementing Entities. Project Approval takes 12 months for one-step approach and 17 months for two-step approach.

Decision-making information

The Adaptation Fund is supervised and managed by the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB). The Board is composed of 16 members and 16 alternates and holds periodic meetings throughout the year.

The Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat provides research, advisory, administrative, and an array of other services to the Board.

The World Bank is the Adaptation Fund's Trustee.

Monitoring and reporting procedures

National Implementing entities that receive a readiness grant must provide to the Board through the secretariat the following reports through different stages of project implementation:

A notification of project start: This must be submitted within one month of the project start date.
A project monitoring report: This must be submitted six months after the project start date, and every six months thereafter from the date of the last project monitoring report. The report should contain concise but very precise information including an explanation of any issues that would have arisen during implementation.
A notification of project completion: This must be submitted within two months of the project completion date.
A project completion report: This must be submitted within six months of completion of the project and should include specific project implementation information of overall outcome, including any challenges faced and how they were resolved, and an explanation of how achieved outcomes will be disseminated or taken forward.

More information about reporting requirements and formats here.

Information on how to...

Understand the steps to access

Become an accredited entity

Know what activities are eligible for readiness support

Access technical assistance for social and gender mainstreaming

Develop strong project proposals

Climate objective

Adaptation

Sectors and themes

Agriculture, Cities, Disaster risk reduction, Energy efficiency, Forestry and Land-Use, Industry and Infrastructure, Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services, Oceans and Coasts, Renewable Energy, Rural Development, Transport, Waste Management

Type of support provider

Multilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level, Public entity at the sub-national level, Public entity at the regional level, International organization, Non-profit or civil society organization, Private sector, Community-level organization

Co-financing required

Application timeframe

The Adaptation Fund Board accepts and considers project and program proposals three times a year. The next submission deadline can be found on the Events Calendar.

Trustee or administrator

World Bank

Contact information

https://www.adaptation-fund.org/readiness/readiness-grants/

https://www.adaptation-fund.org/contact/

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Adaptation Fund - Readiness Grants

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