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In June 2024 under the GCF-funded 'SCRALA' climate resilience project, Zambia's Minister of Agriculture launched an irrigation scheme in Chirundu District. Coming at a critical time, with the country continuing to face severe drought driven by El Niño, the scheme will increase water access for all year round and boost food security and household income.

Programa Estratégico de Transformación de la Eco Región de La Mojana. San Marcos, Sucre

Climate change effects our glaciers, our lands, our atmosphere and even our health. In Bhutan, extreme rainfall, rising temperatures, droughts have led to increasing number of vector and waterborne diseases, such as Dengue and Chikungunya. However, Bhutan has a few adaptation measures identified in their National Adaptation Plan, such as safeguards in urban planning, strengthening water, sanitation and hygiene interventions in urban zones, increasing inter-sectorial and inter-national collaboration, and strengthening disease monitoring and surveillance.

Residents have new incentives to protect precious wetlands in northern Colombia.

With finance from the Green Climate Fund and technical support from UNDP, Uganda is building resilient communities, wetland ecosystems and associated catchments.

Tuvalu is on the frontlines of climate change. The Tuvalu Coastal Adaptation Project, or TCAP at is it commonly referred to, is continuing to expand its work beyond the capital, Funafuti, in support of keeping communities safe from events such as coastal flooding. TCAP is supported by the Government of Tuvalu, Government of Australia, and the Green Climate Fund.

Preserving wetlands is key to fighting climate change. In Uganda, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) works with UNDP to empower communities to restore ecosystems while protecting their livelihoods.

Uganda's Rukiga district has launched a wetland restoration initiative. This is the third district in Kigezi Sub-region, in South Western Uganda to embrace the move after Rubanda and Kabale. The Government of Uganda with support from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) secured funding under the Green Climate Fund to support wetlands restoration across 24 districts and the Ministry of Water and Environment is spearheading the project's implementation.