This project will deploy unmanned aerial vehicles in the Amazon piedmont of Colombia, in collaboration with activist and indigenous groups in and around the city of Mocoa. These UAVs will monitor the region for landslides, a growing risk in the area under conditions of heavy precipitation that is rising as a result of climate change. At the same time, the UAVs will collect data that can be used to direct loans through the micro-finance sector for agro-forestry businesses that preserve the Amazon as a source of income for local producers.

This project will enhance food and water security by using established methods and tools built up by UNDP and GRP over decades, to provide better information and data on climate fragility and resilience, with a focus on successful business models and instruments linked to enterprise funding.

This project will integrate SMARTFARM to the ongoing projects in Rwanda and Ethiopia. As a start, baseline information relation to crops, geo-coordinated and farmer information will be gathered on the platform through lead farmers.

This project will create conditions for accelerating uptake of adaptation benefits into mitigation projects by piloting different approaches in Least Developing countries (LDCs), with a focus on agriculture, forestry and other land use projects. By a) creating the tools, methodological support and networks designed to generate a pipeline of projects, increase awareness of opportunities and benefits, and support private sector proponents in their efforts.

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 support the establishment of a certification scheme for the portfolio of Inclusive Finance Service Providers (IFSP) dedicated to finance practices and technologies supporting climate change adaptation and resilience impacts for smallholder farmers and rural communities. Such intervention will generate trust by investors and hence enable relocation of existing financial flow, as well as attracting new financial flow, towards climate change adaptation for smallholder farmers and rural communities.

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.

The project will act as the intersection between climate change adaptation and fintech acceleration - the project proposes a venture-building facility to accelerate fintech-enabled climate resilience solutions for vulnerable households and small businesses in Africa. This facility is based on the success that BFA Global has had through the Catalyst Fund.

This project will spur the implementation of adaptation measures to climate change in the project areas by incentivizing private investment in adaptation measures by piloting, developing, and deploying an Adaptation Equivalency Index (AEI) in Guatemala and Honduras, along with a toolkit for adoption and implementation of the index. The Adaptation Equivalency Index is a framework that will allow for the quantification of impact of investments in adaptation measures for supply chains.