Adaptation Fund Technical Assistance (TA) Grants

The Adaptation Fund’s Readiness Programme for Climate Finance aims to help strengthen the capacity of national and regional implementing entities to receive and manage climate financing, particularly through the direct access modality, and to adapt and build resilience to counter changing climate conditions in sectors ranging from agriculture and food security to coastal zones and urban areas. The programme also aims to advance direct access in developing countries and promotes the accreditation of National Implementing Entities (NIEs) from developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change.

As part of the Readiness Programme, the Adaptation Fund Board has made Technical Assistance (TA) grants available to accredited NIEs. These grants are aimed at strengthening the capacity of NIEs in the areas of environmental and social risk management and addressing gender-related issues as they design, develop and implement concrete adaptation projects and programmes. The Fund’s Environmental and Social Policy (ESP), with its 15 principles, and the Gender Policy, serve as frameworks for mitigating these types of environmental and social as well as gender-related issues that may need to be considered. The grants are meant to help NIEs tap into external (international or national) expertise in the form of short-term consultant assignments.