Climate change is placing growing pressure on electricity transmission and distribution networks, threatening reliability, asset life, and energy security. This brief presents a practical framework for assessing climate risks and integrating cost-effective resilience measures across the project cycle, drawing on lessons from projects in Mauritania–Mali, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.

Climate change is increasing uncertainty in agricultural decision-making, while unequal access to digital services can limit farmers’ ability to act on climate information. This brief presents practical approaches to make Digital Climate-informed Agricultural Advisory Services more gender-responsive, inclusive, and actionable, strengthening access, trust, uptake, and links to the resources farmers need to adapt.

Under the adaptation finance pillar of the Africa Adaptation Acceleration Program (AAAP) — a joint initiative between the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) — GCA began engaging private sector financial institutions to de-risk lending portfolios, build institutional capacity, and identify market-ready adaptation investment opportunities aligned with national and sectoral resilience priorities.

This technical brief examines the critical intersection of Africa's growing solar PV investments and climate resilience. With nearly 600 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa lacking electricity access and solar PV investments reaching $36.6 billion in 2023, the continent faces both enormous opportunity and significant climate-related risks to energy infrastructure.

This paper discusses the role of digital climate-informed advisory services in building the resilience of small-holder producers by 2030.