The project assessed potential innovations and investment opportunities for enterprise-driven models aimed at strengthening resilience in fragile and conflict-prone regions highly vulnerable to climate change. This included identifying key thematic areas for investment and financing to support enterprise development for adaptation within these challenging contexts. Building on this enhanced understanding of the investment landscape, the project provided acceleration grants to local actors with innovative, enterprise-based solutions.

This project will crowd in private investment by lowering some of the costs impeding initial investment by service providers, this will be done through investments designed to reduce some of the constraints facing key service providers. With interventions in insurance, credit, and advisory services, which will create a more profitable investment opportunities at scale individually, but also address constraint complementarities.

This project will assist Antigua and Barbuda, Egypt, and Uganda in applying climate-smart planning best practices to their capital investment’s preparation processes. In particular, the project will equip government officials with methodologies, tools, and training to enhance adaptation and mitigation measures in their planning cycle. For each capital investment project that will benefit from this technical assistance program, alternative designs and technologies will be proposed for consideration.

This project serves as a transformative bridge between climate change adaptation and fintech innovation by establishing a venture-building and ecosystem -building facility to accelerate fintech-enabled solutions that enhance climate resilience for vulnerable communities in Africa. The initiative provides startups that receive investment from the Catalyst Fund, a pioneering climate adaptation-focused fund in Africa, with tailored venturebuilding support, expert mentorship, and expansive networks. This approach de-risks startups, enhances productmarket fit, and scales impactful solutions.

This project leverages Nespresso’s supply chains to implement localized climate adaptation and resilience interventions in smallholder coffee landscapes in the DRC and Uganda, with a particular emphasis on women’s empowerment. The goal of the project is to enable smallholder coffee farming households in Masaka (Uganda) and Minova (South Kivu, DRC) to adapt to a changing environment, and to support long-term resilience among these communities, with an additional focus on improving household nutrition in the DRC and supporting energy efficient cookstoves in Uganda.