Regional Climate Resilience Program for Eastern and Southern Africa

T he Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) is supporting the World Bank Group in implementing its Regional Climate Resilience Project for Eastern and Southern Africa, which aims to protect 1.63 million people from and prevent losses in the economy due to climate disasters in Comoros, Madagascar, Mozambique, and South Sudan. GCA is supporting this project through the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP).

The project’s goal is to strengthen the enabling conditions and scale-up regionally coordinated and high-impact transformational water resilience actions that systematically improve the management of short- and long-term water-related climate impacts on people, livelihoods, and protection.

GCA will deliver technical assistance and build capacity to integrate adaptation and resilience in the design of downstream investments on infrastructure, urban, and water services, which will deliver synergistic, sustainable, and transformative actions at scale.

Investment Value Influenced by GCA

US$382 million

Beneficiaries

1.63 million people

Implementation Period

2022-2027

Partner

GCA’s Added Value

The following interventions are currently being discussed with the World Bank Group:

  • Develop a series of tools, methods, and standards for climate adaptation and climate resilient infrastructure that can be scaled up and replicated in all countries and in subsequent phases of the Series of Projects (SOP).
  • Leverage the unique multi-sectoral character of the project by developing and testing multi-sectoral approaches for resilience building. For instance, the strengthening of urban resilience within a basin rather than within a city only.
  • Strengthen implementation capacity at different implementation levels through two master classes.

Expected Outcomes

GCA’s interventions will contribute to achieving the following outcomes:

  • 500,000 hectares of land in transboundary basins are benefitting from increased flood protection
  • 630,000 people covered with adaptation social protection or information campaigns (50% of which are women)
  • 1 million people with increased protection to climate shocks