Country Initiatives Details
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$5,139,295 CAD
- 2021 to 2022: $1,340,407 CAD
- 2020 to 2021: $1,817,393 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $1,181,496 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $299,999 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $500,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Chile
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mexico
Niger
Nigeria
Peru
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Funding Period: 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021, 2021 to 2022
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Mitigation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada supports countries in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) and Western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo) to define regional priorities to address greenhouse gas (GHG) and short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) emissions and to pursue opportunities to strengthen their capacity to measure, report, and verify (MRV) emissions. This project will facilitate South-South MRV collaboration and knowledge sharing within and between the Pacific Alliance and West Africa as a mean of exchanging best practices and supporting the replication of best practices generated from Canada’s climate finance sectoral projects in each region. Through capacity-building and regional collaboration efforts, this project will support countries to achieve their respective Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
Results/Expected Outcomes
National Focal Points in each country helped frame country-specific MRV challenges and encouraged countries to define their own climate MRV priorities through inclusive engagement with stakeholders. The mapping of domestic climate MRV system elements across the region, and the production of technical MRV Baseline Reports in each country refined priorities, targeted activities to those priorities, and specified South-South learning opportunities to improve domestic MRV relevance and effectiveness.
In the Pacific Alliance:
- The program supported technical meetings of the Technical Subgroup on MRV of the Pacific Alliance (SGT-MRV) and contracted local experts to prepare comprehensive national scoping studies on the status of their climate MRV systems in each Pacific Alliance country.
- Delegates drafted a multi-year workplan, which became the roadmap for the program. This roadmap evolved into a Coordinating Framework, which defined MRV maturation pathways and specified the capacity and coordination gaps on MRV systems between countries and national ministries.
- The National Planning Department of Colombia and the SGT-MRV organized virtual technical exchanges on the MRV of climate finance and launched a Community of Practice (CoP) to institutionalize discussions on the topic. Over the course of the program, the CoP held 12 sessions with participation of 25 people from different institutions and currently has more than 100 members.
In West Africa:
- Local researchers in each of the 15 countries conducted baseline studies on the status of their national climate MRV systems. These scoping studies were the first of its kind in the region and helped the countries to focus on inclusive climate governance as a key component of relevant, effective and efficient climate MRV.
- The program sponsored research and participatory exchanges with regional decision makers and stakeholders to redefine the challenges of addressing emissions for NDC implementation. 11 West African countries launched a CoP and held 64 meetings with over 2,600 participants to build awareness and influence climate policy development, including outside the Ministries of Environment.
- Countries mapped domestic climate MRV system elements to produce a baseline table which successfully produced a comprehensive comparative table and helped countries to map and understand specific attributes of their climate MRV systems, which until then had been a fundamental obstacle to basic climate MRV awareness. These tables also provided a common product for South-South cooperation.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,615,159 CAD
Footnote*
- 2020 to 2021: $797,860 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $637,602 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $150,000 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $443,259 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $586,438 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Nigeria
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The project aims to improve the lives and incomes of 10,000 poor and vulnerable farming households (approximately 80,000 people) through agriculture-driven economic growth. The project is providing training and related technical support in modern farming methods to farmers in order to increase yields for selected commodity and livestock value chains. The project also aims to improve the business environment to make it more favourable for farmers, women and youth. Project activities seek to increase market access, generate employment and improve nutrition for vulnerable women and children.
The project works in Bauchi, a state in northern Nigeria that is prone to drought, floods, and experiencing desertification. These environmental risks are exacerbated by climate change, and so climate change adaptation has been integrated throughout the project under the three project pillars: increased farmer yields; enabling business environment; and nutrition.
More specifically, environmental sustainability and climate adaptation have been integrated in the following activities:
• Environmental protection related to agrochemical inputs;
• Enhancement of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction using Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis;
• Environmental protection related to value chain enhancement;
• Environmental leadership training;
• Household resilience by strengthening participation in Village Savings and Loan Association, use of home gardens, and nutrition knowledge and options;
• Integrate environment into Gender Action Learning Systems training building environmental assets at household level;
• Integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction into the community strategies;
• Integration of environmental protection/enhancement including climate change adaptation into learning forums.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved as of date include:
(1) 2,948 training participants were supplied with agricultural inputs;
(2) 432 men and women in farmer cooperatives were trained in gender equality;
(3) 18 processing centres to help farmer cooperatives improve their products for market, and six business incubation centres were established at the state level;
(4) over 300 women from vulnerable farmer households were trained to improve household nutrition; and
(5) 103 village savings and loans associations were established to promote financial literacy and savings.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$7,108,013 CAD
Footnote*
- 2018 to 2019: $634,595 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $2,799,635 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $3,673,783 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Benin
Bolivia
Cambodia
Côte d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Ghana
India
Kenya
Nepal
Nigeria
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Tanzania
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Description
This project is a collaboration between the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Canadian International Food Security Research Fund (CIFSRF). The project applies research in sustainable and gender-sensitive agricultural development and nutrition to help improve food security of poor households, in particular focusing on women subsistence farmers. The CIFSRF works in partnership with developing country-based organizations to harness Canadian expertise in agriculture and nutritional science and technology and combine it with first-hand knowledge and expertise of developing countries.
Project activities for phase II include developing farming practices that are more resilient to climate change, environmentally sustainable and gender-sensitive. The project will also help to improve crop production, aquaculture and livestock production, as well as reduce post-harvest losses through adaptable and affordable technologies.
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Results/Expected Outcomes
The project is expected to increase the knowledge and resources of developing country researchers in addressing key food security and agricultural priorities with emphasis on environmental sustainability and gender equity. The project also aims to increase application and scaling-up of environmentally sustainable food security and agriculture solutions that benefit subsistence farmers (particularly women), while promoting gender equitable decision-making. The project will also improve public policies and programming related to food security in developing countries by ensure they are more science-informed, gender responsive and environmentally sustainable.
The project has trained nine farmers in seed production and supported 64,795 households in soil and water conservation and land rehabilitation.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,358,410 CAD
- 2013 to 2014: $48,410 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $10,000 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $610,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $1,170,000 CAD
- 2009 to 2010: $1,520,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Nigeria
Funding Period: 2009 to 2010, 2010 to 2011, 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013, 2013 to 2014
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project sought to enhance Nigeria’s ability to reduce poverty in an equitable and sustainable way by putting in place more effective governance related to climate change. The main activities of the project involved conducting research studies on the best strategies to adapt to climate change; undertaking community-level adaptation pilot projects; supporting the development of a Nigeria Climate Change Adaptation Strategy; developing and using climate change education and outreach materials; and developing gender-specific tools and mechanisms. The project was implemented by a consortium of Cuso International and International Coach Federation (ICF) Marbek in collaboration with the Nigerian Environmental Study/Action Team (NEST).
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved at the end of this project include the development of socio-economic, community-based strategies to adapt to climate change in key sectors and eco-regional zones, including an assessment of vulnerabilities and needs. The National Adaptation Strategy and Plan of Action for Climate Change on Nigeria, which the project initiated and played a critical role in developing, was also approved by the federal government and put forward as a case study at the 2012 United Nations Climate Change Conference.
As part of the project, seven pilot projects were also carried out in 15 communities to assess appropriate climate change adaptation measures. These projects focused on supporting the 15 communities to better manage crops, engage women in decision-making, and manage finances. A gender and climate change toolkit, intended to strengthen the participation and the role of women and men in climate change adaptation was also developed. The toolkit provides guidelines to stakeholders on integrating gender perspectives into climate change, in recognition that women are typically the most adversely affected by climate change, which further places at risk their ability to earn a living.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$41,000,000 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $0 CAD
- 2011 to 2012: $41,000,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Nigeria
Funding Period: 2011 to 2012, 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
As part of Canada's Fast-start contribution, Canada provided $200 million to the Clean Technology Fund, a multi-donor trust fund that provides scaled-up financing for the demonstration, deployment and transfer of low carbon technologies that have a significant potential for long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Canada's contribution is expected to support scaled-up financing for the demonstration, deployment and transfer of low carbon technologies in three countries. In May 2012, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) Trust Fund Committee decided that new CTF contributions, including Canada's $200 million in concessional finance, would be allocated to three new Country Investment Plans (Nigeria, Chile and India) in proportion to their overall funding requests as approved in their Investment Plans. Final disbursements of resources to these and other plans will depend on the roll-out of the CTF project pipeline.
In Nigeria, the CTF investment plan aims at helping Nigeria further its growth and development aspirations through a low carbon strategic approach of appropriate mitigation actions.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$200,000 CAD
- 2010 to 2011: $200,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Nigeria
Funding Period: 2010 to 2011
Type of Support:
Mitigation
Project Funded through a Canadian Facility:
IFC - Canada Climate Change Program (CCCP)
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The IFC-Canada Climate Change Program provided support to catalyze the development of a commercially viable market for clean, modern and affordable off-grid energy products serving consumers in Nigeria. The targeted area is currently relying on fossil-based fuels, especially kerosene, and other polluting products to meet their lighting needs. The four major pillars of program activities, which seek to increase the uptake of solar lanterns and solar home systems, are enhanced consumer education, retail channel expansion, business-to-business connections, and access to finance.
Results/Expected Outcomes
With support from Canada, this project is expected to mobilize an additional $4.75 million in co-financing from public and private sources and lead to an estimated greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 123,700 metric tons of CO2 per year.* To date, the program is working with 10 manufacturers and their distributors to develop the off-grid energy market.
Co-Financing/Mobilized Finance ($CAD):
$4,755,000
Estimated GHG (metric tons of CO₂) Reduction Associated with Project (per year)Disclaimer *:
123,700