U nder the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP), the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA), in partnership with the African Development Bank (AfDB), has delivered a landmark technical assistance to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) to mainstream climate resilience across its lending portfolio. This support was made possible through the Africa Adaptation Finance Accelerator (AFAC) initiative and funded by the Africa Climate Change Fund.

As climate risks intensify across Tanzania’s agriculture sector, TADB is taking the lead among national development banks by integrating climate-related risks management into its core operations. GCA’s technical assistance has built institutional capacity to enable TADB to assess and manage both physical and transition climate risks in its direct and indirect lending activities, while aligning with the Bank of Tanzania’s regulatory requirements.

This is a pioneering step toward making climate-related financial risk management a standard practice in African banking. The technical assistance sets a precedent for how banks can embed adaptation into their operations and drive transformational change at scale.