The Climate Hazard Assessment for The Gambia Technical Report provides an evidence-based overview of current and future climate hazards affecting critical infrastructure, with a focus on the transport sector. The analysis highlights that flooding, rising extreme temperatures, and increasing drought risk are the most significant threats to mobility, connectivity, and water availability.

The Water Resources Climate Risk Assessment for The Gambia Technical Report analyses current and future pressures on freshwater availability and quality, identifying priority climate risks and adaptation options for the sector. The assessment shows that saltwater intrusion, groundwater depletion, and rising demand driven by population and industrial growth are key challenges, particularly in the Greater Banjul Area and along the Gambia River.

The Climate Risk Assessment for the Transport Sector in The Gambia Technical Report evaluates how current and future climate hazards affect the national transport network and identifies priority adaptation responses. The assessment shows that flooding and rising extreme temperatures pose the most significant risks, with a large share of road infrastructure already exposed to shallow flood events that can disrupt access to markets, schools, and health services.

The Adaptation and Resilience Options for the Inland Water Transport Sector country brief explores opportunities to unlock the potential of the Gambia River as a resilient transport corridor. It assesses climate risks to riverine infrastructure and navigation conditions, and proposes strategies to improve multimodal connectivity, strengthen port resilience, and support adaptive planning for future inland transport development.

The Adaptation and Resilience Options for the Water Sector country brief examines growing pressures on water resources driven by climate variability, salinization, and rising demand. It identifies priority investments in climate-smart agriculture, groundwater governance, monitoring systems, and green-blue infrastructure to enhance water security while delivering economic and ecosystem co-benefits.

The Adaptation and Resilience Options for the Transport Sector country brief highlights the vulnerability of the country’s highly concentrated transport network — including the Port of Banjul, key national road corridors, and airport infrastructure — to increasing flooding, heat stress, and coastal risks. It presents cost-effective resilience strategies, including improved drainage, resilient pavement design, strengthened maintenance systems, and the scaling of nature-based solutions such as mangrove and floodplain restoration to protect strategic assets.

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 Handbook contains articles to support professional skills for participants of the Youth Academy on Climate Adaptation and Leadership – a training-of-trainer’s model developed by the Global Center on Adaptation in partnership with the University of Nairobi and the University of Groningen. The University of Groningen Business School in the Netherlands is one of the program’s partners and has compiled this Handbook. This Handbook is the revised edition of the Handbooks, Part One and Part Two, which were released in 2024.

Led by Bangladesh’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC), this assessment brings together expertise via the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) and the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), with technical analyses undertaken by the University of Oxford and the Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), and support from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands. The aim of this assessment is to quantify the impact of climate hazards on the provision of infrastructure services and the achievement of the country’s development objectives under current and projected climate scenarios.