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Adaptation Fund – 10 Years of Innovation, Action & Learning

• Adaptation Fund: Pioneering Innovation, Action and Sharing / Michael Kracht, Chair, Adaptation Fund Board
• Adaptation Fund’s 10th Anniversary: Significant Contribution to Progress on Climate Change / Patricia Espinosa, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Celebrating 10 Years of the Adaptation Fund / Naoko Ishii, GEF CEO & Chairperson, Head of the Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat
• 10 Years and Counting: Pioneering Innovation, Concrete Actions and Learning / Mikko Ollikainen, Manager, Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat

Implementing Partners

• National Agency of Research and Innovation (ANII), Uruguay: Making Measurable Impacts in Adaptation Through Smallholder Cattle Ranchers
• Department of Environment, Antigua and Barbuda: Antigua’s Northwest Coastal Communities to Benefit from Concrete Adaptation Measures
• The West African Development Bank (BOAD): Adaptation Fund Presents Opportunity to Support Development Efforts in Context of Climate Change
• Desert Research Foundation of Namibia (DRFN): Applying Environmental, Social and Gender Principles to Enhance Climate Change Adaptation Projects in Namibia
• Environmental Project Implementation Unit (EPIU): Republic of Armenia Breaking New Ground on Adaptation in Eastern Europe
• Natura Foundation, Panama: Building Adaptation Capacity to Manage Water in the Face of Climate Change
• Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia, Kemitraan: Building Resilience in Coastal Communities
• Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MOPIC), Jordan: Targeting Water and Agriculture in Vulnerable Communities
• Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS): The Sahara and Sahel Observatory as a Regional Actor for Climate Change Adaptation
• Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ): Small Farmers in Vulnerable Communities Reap Big Harvests from Game-Changing Adaptation Fund Programme
• South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa: Empowering Rural Small Farmers Through Localized Projects
• Unit for Rural Change (UCAR), Argentina: Building Climate Change Resilience of Small Farmers in Northeast Argentina
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Cambodia: Rural Communities in Cambodia Find Ways to Overcome Impacts of Climate Change
• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat): UN-Habitat Salutes Adaptation Fund
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Building Climate Resiliency with UNDP
• World Food Programme (WFP), Egypt: The Importance of Stakeholder Engagement for Behavioral Change
• World Bank Group, Argentina: Adapting to Climate Variability in a Transition Zone Between the Pampa and Patagonia, Argentina
• World Bank Group, Belize: Enhancing the Health of Belize’s Coasts Through Ecosystem-Based Conservation and Adaptation

Adaptation Fund Stories

• Direct Access to Climate Finance Builds Capacity and Credibility of National Institutions
• Proactive Focus on Environmental, Social and Gender Policies
• Streamlined Access and Regional Approaches Strive to Create Greater Efficiency
• Setting Up an Innovative Emission Reduction Mechanism for Adaptation

Stakeholder Contributions

• Accreditation Panel: Reflections on the Evolution of the “Direct Access” Concept
• Adaptation Fund NGO Network (AFN): Civil Society Leading Steps to Achieve Adaptation to Climate Change for the Most Vulnerable
• Germany: Top Adaptation Fund Contributor
• Sweden: An Adaptation Fund Contributor Toward a More Sustainable World
• Germanwatch: 10 Years of Active Civil Society Engagement in Adaptation Fund
• Marcia Levaggi, Environmental Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina: Adaptation Fund Builds Momentum through Innovative Approaches to Climate Finance and Concrete, Scalable Adaptation Projects
• The World Bank Group: 10 Years with the Adaptation Fund—A View from the World Bank as Trustee

Beneficiary Capsules

• The South Africa National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), South Africa
  • Helping Smallholders Improve Crop Production
  • Increasing Climate Resilience in Small-Scale Farmers through Integrated Adaptation
• ANII, Uruguay: Building Resilience to Climate Change and Variability in Vulnerable Smallholders
• Department of Environment, Antigua and Barbuda: Using a “Box Hand” Community Lending Model for Adaptation Finance
• Cook Islands:
  • Protecting Coastlines and Turtle Nesting Sites in the Cook Islands
  • Life Jackets in Paradise
  • A Labor of Love
• Natura Foundation, Panama: Stakeholder Consultation Key to Successfully Developing Water Management Project in Panama
• PIOJ, Jamaica:
  • Alton Hall, Motivated Young Farmer
  • Yvonne ‘Donna’ Budraham, Enterprising Woman Farmer
• UNDP, Turkmenistan: Abdylvahyp Halimberdiev, Farmer in Nohur Region
• World Bank Group, Argentina:
  • Mateo Perez & Anses Justo
  • Gabriel Demarchi
  • Roberto Miller
• World Bank Group, Belize: The Marine Conservation Climate Adaptation project (MCCAP)
• World Food Programme (WFP), Egypt: Building Resilient Food Security Systems in Southern Egypt