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Background on the UNDP-AFCIA grant application process
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The UNDP-implemented AFCIA programme offers substantial support to communities responding to climate stresses in innovative ways. In addition to grant funding, the programme also offers grantees investment brokering, international advocacy, and peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing services.
What is the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation
Accelerator (AFCIA)?
At COP25 in 2019, the Adaptation Fund launched a pilot small
grants programme, called the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator
(AFCIA), to foster innovation in adaptation in developing countries. The AFCIA
programme targets a broad range of potential finance recipients, including
governments, non-governmental organizations, community groups, young innovators
and other vulnerable groups.
Part of the Adaptation Fund’s Innovation Facility, the
programme provides small grants to local actors in developing countries to
support innovation for effective, long-term adaptation to climate
change.
Initially, two of the Adaptation Fund’s accredited
Multilateral Implementing Entities (MIEs) – the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and
the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) – received US$5 million each to run and aggregate
a project of small grants (up to US$250,000 each). The Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) –
the operational arm of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC) Technology Mechanism – works in conjunction with UNEP as an
executing entity in the AFCIA.
How does it work?
UNDP and UNEP-CTCN provided different services to support
innovation in adaptation to developing countries in the AFCIA.
Grant funding (UNDP) has been provided to
applicants on a competitive basis. Selected grantees operate and manage their
projects by themselves with support from UNDP. Grant funding was open only for
not-for-profit entities, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), civil
society organizations (CSOs), business member associations (BMOs), and other
associations, cooperatives, or community based organizations registered in a
developing country.
Technical assistance (UNEP-CTCN) has been provided to
developing countries on a competitive basis. Selected applications have been
further developed to design a customized solution tailored to the needs of the
developing country, and the solution has been implemented in the country by a
technology provider selected by the CTCN. The applications received by the
UNDP-CTCN AFCIA programme, had to be signed by the national focal point to the
CTCN (National Designated Entity, NDE) and submitted via the programme
webpage.
Throughout the implementation of the AFCIA programme, proposals submitted to UNDP-AFCIA were not considered for UNEP-CTCN AFCIA. The rest of the information in this webpage only relates to the UNDP-AFCIA granting process.
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