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    AFD and Climate change adaptation

    The choice of a financing and governance system for aid for adaptation is still under negotiation. AFD is consequently giving priority to a project approach and includes this component in its strategy to combat climate change. Beyond this combat, increasing a population’s resistance helps its development and reduces its dependence on aid systems, whether they are short-term (after an extreme climate event) or long-term (development aid).


    In terms of adaptation, the 4 main sectors for AFD operations are:

    • energy and infrastructure (dams with flood protection systems, early warning systems…)
    • water and sanitation (drainage systems, rehabilitation of distribution networks or rehabilitation of wastewater treatment plants with wastewater reclamation, creation of wastewater treatment plants
    • natural resources, particularly agriculture (agroecology, watershed management, development of resistant crops…)
    • financial intermediation (natural disaster insurance system).

     

    AFD and Climate proofing

    Project climate proofing (i.e. increasing resistance to climate risks) is being increasingly used by donors working to combat climate change. It helps protect infrastructure or an inhabited area by considerably reducing or completely removing the negative impacts of an extreme meteorological event. The manual for project vulnerability analysi (French version only) prepared by J-M. Jancovici is a checklist for project managers and helps them to improve project preparation by asking relevant questions, particularly in terms of vulnerability to a possible climate or energy change.

    AFD commitments for adaptation

    €211M in 2007 – for 23 adaptation projects with a strong predominance in the water and sanitation sector (72%) and a concentration in the Mediterranean (32%), Sub-Saharan Africa (26%) and Asia (24%).