Fifth Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) Partnership Forum

From Windhoek to Baku: Adapting, Empowering, Thriving

Baku, Azerbaijan

14 October 2024, 9:00

The 5th Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) partnership forum will offer the platform to share results and lessons learned from the implementation of the AAAP and to tease out emerging frontiers in climate adaptation where resilience-building must be accelerated. 

Event description

AAAP Partnership Forum
The AAAP Partnership Forum are crucial moments to share progress and results from the program’s implementation while also providing insights from climate adaptation contexts, which the AAAP must consider and evolve. Hosted with an AU Member State, the African Development Bank and the African Union Commission, they also present opportunities for potential partners to identify collaboration opportunities to support in amplifying adaptation efforts for Africa. 

Since the Program’s launch in 2021, four Partnership Forum have been organized and rotated among AU Member States, from Namibia to Kenya. Feedback from these fora 
have shaped the evolution of the Program in an ongoing manner. Some of the considerations taken into account from these fora include better synergy with the climate adaptation negotiation processes, expansion of the program’s business lines and scope to cover investments of national development and commercial banks in Africa, and a geographical expansion taking into account the specific contexts of Small Island Developing States. 

The Fifth AAAP Partnership Forum
 The 5th Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) partnership forum will offer the platform to share results and lessons learned from the implementation of the AAAP and to tease out emerging frontiers in climate adaptation where resilience-building must be accelerated. 

It will be jointly organized by the African Union, government of Tanzania, the African Development Bank and the Global Center on Adpatation. 

CoP29 will see headway across different processes impacting adaptation financing. Key talks regarding the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance are expected to advance, as climate financing needs in Africa continue to increase. It will feature progress on country aspirations in the next round of their Nationally Determined Contributions, and how these reflect stronger adaptation commitments tailored to the needs of marginalised groups. It will make progress on clarity in operationalizing the Loss and Damage Fund, including scaled up financial pledges towards the Fund. 

Beyond these processes, as climate impacts increase in intensity and magnitude, new sectors are facing stressors from growing hazards. Heat impacts on healthcare and 
ripple effects on labor and worker productivity are increasingly affecting global workforce. Sufficient climate education, knowledge and skills are needed to help 
address these increasing impacts. The focus of the AAAP will constantly improve to meet the demands of Africa within these progressing and evolving contexts. 
The 5th AAAP Partnership forum comes on the heels of the Nairobi forum where program progress was assessed from the lens of Kenya. The 4th AAAP Partnership Forum showcased how the AAAP has thus far committed 3 million euros in upstream project preparation to strengthen adaptation components of investment projects of the African Development Bank, World Bank, IFAD, related to food security, water & sanitation, infrastructure and nature-based solutions, and adaptation jobs in the country. Key examples of program progress in Kenya were highlighted such as training of individuals on climate-smart sustainable waste management practices, driving locally-anchored support to communities and direct grant funding to digital solutions that address physical climate risks in low-income, vulnerable communities.

The 5th partnership forum will have a broader scope and will consider the Program’s progress and results in climate-proofing economic resilience across Africa, consider lessons it has learnt and assess its future outlook within an evolving climate adaptation global context . 

The government of Tanzania will host this edition of the Forum at COP29, providing a case study of the Program’s support to building resilience.