The grant agreement was signed at the United Nation Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) by Dr. Hamdok Abdalla, Deputy Executive Secretary of UNECA and Mr. Gary Quince, Head of EU Delegation to the African Union in the presence H.E. Rhoda Tumusiime, AU Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture.
The contribution is part of the Global Climate Change Alliance funding, a programme in which the European Union and the most vulnerable Developing Countries are working together to tackle climate change.
This agreement will enhance the capacities of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at ECA and the Climate Change and Desertification Unit at AUC to carry out their activities under the ClimDev Africa programme for three years.
ClimDev Africa is a tripartite initiative between the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development Bank. Under the political leadership of the AUC, the programme’s three partners together deliver an African strategic approach to climate change and sustainable development.
The three components of the programme include the Climate Change and Desertification Unit (CCDU) of the AUC. CCDU will coordinate the African strategic policy on climate change and desertification, both severely affecting economic development in Africa.
The African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) of the ECA has a strong analytical core of expertise and leads many programmatic activities supporting the improvement and use of information in climate change and development decision making through knowledge generation and sharing, advocacy and consensus building, and technical cooperation. It is also the Secretariat of the Programme.
The ClimDev Special Fund (CDSF) is managed by the AfDB and is a demand-led fund that pools resources to finance investment activities on the ground across Africa for the generation and use of climate information for climate-resilient development at all levels. CDSF grants will be implemented by national and regional organisations on the continent.
ClimDev Africa programme has been mandated by African Heads of State and Government, as well as Africa’s Ministers of Finance, Planning and Environment, to respond to the urgent challenge that climate change poses to the advancement of Africa’s development objectives.
