The Adaptation Fund Board made several substantial decisions during its 32nd meeting in Bonn, Germany last week, which will contribute to implementing the Fund’s medium-term strategy to respond to the urgency of climate change by accelerating and enhancing the quality of adaptation actions in developing countries, scaling up innovative projects and disseminating knowledge of effective Fund actions...
New projects approved included an innovative US$ 1.4 million Direct Access project in Armenia by EPIU to manage floods as well as pit waste through closed stone facilities; a US$ 7.9 million regional project by WMO to manage flood, drought and early warning systems in integrated ways in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo; and a US$ 10 million regional project by UNDP to restore marine ecosystems in Mauritius and Seychelles by rehabilitating coral reefs. Another US$ 160,000 in project formulation grants were approved among 10 project concepts and pre-concepts endorsed by the Board.