The Director of the African Development Bank’s Climate Change and Green Growth Department, Prof. Anthony Nyong, recently received a delegation from Global Affairs Canada’s Cooperation for Pan-African and Regional Development Program in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.
The delegation which was led by Mrs. Lara Bremner, Head of the Program was in Abidjan as part of its engagement with major Pan-African and regional partners, including the African Development Bank’s Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF). She was accompanied by Mrs. Eve Sandra Beremwoudougou, First Secretary and Senior International Assistance Officer and GAC’s representative on the ACCF’s Oversight Committee.
Global Affairs Canada, a Canadian government Department, teamed up with the ACCF in March 2020 as a donor with a contribution of 7 million Canadian Dollars to support the Fund’s work in developing a gender-transformative climate change workstream focused on women and girls’ empowerment for climate resilience.
While welcoming the officials, Nyong talked about how the bank is mainstreaming climate change into all its investments. He said the ACCF, which has benefitted from Canada’s contributions, is focused on backing entities like civil society organizations, non-government organizations, and small businesses, which are often left out of the bank’s main financing, to access climate finance.
He said: “The ACCF is not only providing funds for climate action but also helping to strengthen the capacities of the institutions it engages.” He added that the GAC’s contributions have strengthened the bank’s work in mainstreaming gender into its climate change projects.
In her remarks, Bremner extolled the Africa Climate Change Fund and advised on how it could enlarge its geographic reach and deepen its engagements with the private sector. She talked about the need to further post the results of the projects on social media and other platforms. She offered Canada’s support to disseminating the results that the ACCF is delivering.
Rita Effah, the Coordinator of the Africa Climate Change Fund, briefed Bremner on the Fund’s Third Call for Proposal (CFP3) and how the chosen projects will tackle gender inequality across the host countries. The projects cover major sectors like agriculture, forestry, energy, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).
Effah said: “These projects are expected to contribute to addressing the root causes of gender inequality and to strengthen the resilience of African communities to the impacts of climate change.” Effah stated.
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