Updates

The African Development Bank (AfDB) announced on October 8 that the ClimDev-Africa Special Fund (CDSF) had become effective since last August and is now ready to support the first cohort of climate change operations. Addressing the opening session of the Fourth Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-IV) in Marrakech, Morocco, Ms. Yacine Fal, AfDB Resident Representative to the Kingdom of Morocco announced the launch of the first ‘Call for Proposal’ at an event to be held here later that day.

The Deputy Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Dr. Abdalla Hamdok has told participants at the Fourth annual Conference on Climate and Development in Africa (CCDA-IV) that Africa’s needs are unique and the continent faces exceptional climate challenges. He explained that Africa faces unique challenges of poor physical infrastructure, poor agricultural productivity and poor market access, as well as weak institutions and policies - factors which perpetuate circles of poverty and misery.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ACPC) – Close to 500 policy makers, academics, practitioners and other stakeholders from the agriculture and climate change sectors will gather on 8 October in Marrakesh, Morocco, in a bid to come to the rescue of Africa’s agriculture which, instead of falling victim to climate change, should seize climate change opportunities for a more harmonious development of the continent.