📋 Tender Overview
The Adaptation Fund (AF) has a proven track record for implementing innovative adaptation projects, including in SDC priority countries. It supports most vulnerable communities to increase their resilience and adaptation capacities in the face of the rapidly rising impacts of climate change including extreme weather events and slow onset processes. It is one of the four climate funds that reports to the Conference of the Parties to the Paris Agreement.
Country/region Topic Period Budget
Global
Climate change and environment
Environmental policy
Disaster risk reduction DRR
01.01.2025 - 31.12.2028
CHF 15’000’000
The project in brief
Background Developing countries face increasingly frequent and intense climate-related rapid (e.g. floods) and slow onset events (e.g. sea level rise). Their Adaptation needs are rising accordingly but remain massively underfunded (USD 194-366bn adaptationf inance gap per year; UNEP 2023). In 2022 bilateral and multilaterala daptation finance flows to such countries amounted to USD 32.4bn. Among the only four funds that report to the conferences of the global climate agreements (COPs), the AF is the one solely focusing on adaptation. As a matter of priority, the AF supports innovative adaptation solutions that can be scaled or replicated elsewhere. For Switzerland, the AF’s comparative advantage lies not only in its effective support to concrete adaptation activity but also in strengthening longterm capacity of institutions in developing countries to manage such work. The AF is known for its agility, including its efficient project approval process. As a Party to the Paris Agreement and member of the AF Board, Switzerland has influenced AF operations from its inception, helping to improve many specific projects, to foster its results-based management and to sharpen its focus on womena nd on the poorests egmentso f society. The proposal is supported interdepartmentally (agreement between the directors of FOEN. SDC and SECO in the Plafico coordination platform) and is weII aligned with the Swiss International Cooperation Strategy. The contribution is counted under the strategy’s CHF 400 million climate finance target.
Objectives People, livelihoods and ecosystems are adequately protected from the adverse impacts of climate change with their adaptive capacity enhanced, resilience strengthened and the vulnerability of people, livelihoods and ecosystems to climate-change reduced in the context of climateresilient, sustainable development.
Target groups Developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, including all SDC priority countries.
Special attention is given to women and the most vulnerable people and communities within these countries such as youth and children, indigenous groups or people with disabilities.
Medium-term outcomes
41 million of direct/indirect beneficiaries strengthen their capacity to adapt to climate change.
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