The African Local Governments Academy (ALGA) of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa (UCLG Africa)

The promotion of the territorial dimension of development in Africa cannot be fully effective without the support of human resources trained and involved in its implementation. Therefore, the African ministers and mayors present in Marrakech subscribed to Morocco's proposal to create “The African Local Government Academy (ALGA)” whose motto is "For a Performing Local Africa". It is the Strategic Lever of UCLG-Africa to invest in the human capital of local governments in Africa, through learning, training, capacity building, for the level of the Local Public administration, for the modernization of the management of human resources at the local level, and for the promotion of standards of excellence in terms of training and capacity building targeting African territorial communities.

GCCA+ resources database

The Global Climate Change Alliance Plus (GCCA+) is a European Union flagship initiative which is helping the world's most vulnerable countries to address climate change. Having started with just four pilot projects in 2008, it has become a major climate initiative that has funded over 80 projects of national, regional and worldwide scope in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific. 

Health and climate change toolkit

WHO works worldwide to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. Their goal is to ensure that a billion more people have universal health coverage, to protect a billion more people from health emergencies, and provide a further billion people with better health and well-being.

IIED climate change database

The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) is an independent research organisation that aims to deliver positive change on a global scale. Their mission is to build a fairer, more sustainable world, using evidence, action and influence, working in partnership with others.

Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change

Working in 14 Pacific island countries, the Programme is demonstrating best-practice adaptation in three key climate-sensitive areas: coastal zone management, food security and food production, and water resources management. Each country is hosting a pilot project in one of these theme areas to demonstrate how climate change adaptation can work on the ground.

Swedish Portal for Climate Change Adaptation

The Swedish portal for climate change adaptation supports society and citizens preparing for climate change consequences. The portal offers comprehensive information and support within a number of areas. The portal is run by the Swedish National Knowledge Centre for Climate Change Adaptation, in cooperation with twenty Swedish authorities

UNDP Climate Change Adaptation

UNDP is a leader in climate change adaptation. These concrete activities are designed to inform climate-smart policy and strategy development, and support nations in building National Adaptation Plans and Programmes of Action that will protect vulnerable populations from the threats posed by a changing climate

IRI Climate Service Academies

This platform helps countries to  countries to adapt to climate and achieve their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), decision makers–from government officials to farmers–require increased capacity to understand the risks posed by climate variability and change and how to mitigate those risks effectively.

The coordinated approach offered by IRI’s Climate Services Academies addresses each of these constraints by building relationships between producers and users of climate information, enabling users of information to be smart consumers, able to understand their needs and demand it of producers; gives beneficiaries a voice in designing capacity building programs.

CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS)

CCAFS addresses the increasing challenge of global warming and declining food security on agricultural practices, policies and measures through strategic, broad-based global partnerships. It brings together some of the world's best researchers in agricultural science, climate science, environmental and social sciences to identify and address the most important interactions, synergies and trade-offs between climate change and agriculture.

FAO - Climate-Smart Agriculture

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps to guide actions needed to transform and reorient agricultural systems to effectively support development and ensure food security in a changing climate. CSA aims to tackle three main objectives:

• sustainably increasing agricultural productivity and incomes;

• adapting and building resilience to climate change; and

• reducing and/or removing greenhouse gas emissions, where possible.

FAO Regional Office for Africa

FAO’s interventions in Africa at regional, sub-regional and country level promote an integrated programme approach to food security and nutrition challenges and sustainable development.  We are informed by regional priorities and commitments, such as the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) and the Malabo declaration, while responding to FAO’s strategic objectives.
The main areas of focus are showcased through three Regional Initiatives, namely:  supporting Africa’s commitment to end hunger by 2025; promoting sustainable production intensification and value chain development; and, building resilience in Africa’s drylands.  The cross-cutting issues of climate change, nutrition, gender, and governance are integral to our work, as is working in partnerships.

Farm Africa Limited

Farm Africa is an international organisation working to build a prosperous rural Africa. It helps farmers to increase their harvests, build their incomes and sustain natural resources, partnering with governments and the private sector to find effective ways to fight poverty. It works closely with local communities, who actively participate in all the decisions about its work.
Today, almost half of the world’s extreme poor live in sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority work in agriculture. Farm Africa reduces poverty in eastern Africa by helping farmers grow more, sell more and sell for more. It works in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda growing agriculture, protecting the environment and developing businesses in rural areas.Farm Africa is an international organisation working to build a prosperous rural Africa. It helps farmers to increase their harvests, build their incomes and sustain natural resources, partnering with governments and the private sector to find effective ways to fight poverty. It works closely with local communities, who actively participate in all the decisions about its work.
Today, almost half of the world’s extreme poor live in sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority work in agriculture. Farm Africa reduces poverty in eastern Africa by helping farmers grow more, sell more and sell for more. It works in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda growing agriculture, protecting the environment and developing businesses in rural areas.

Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA)

FARA is the apex continental organization responsible for coordinating and advocating for agricultural research for development (AR4D). FARA serves as the technical arm of the Africa Union Commission on matters concerning agriculture science, technology and innovation.
FARA serves as the entry point for agricultural research initiatives designed to have a continental reach or a sub-continental reach spanning more than one sub-region. Headquartered in Accra, Ghana, FARA has been in existence for 12 years. Over this period, FARA has provided a continental forum for stakeholders in AR4D to shape the vision and agenda for this sub-sector, and to mobilize themselves to respond to key continent-wide development frameworks, notably the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP)
FARA also plays a key role in galvanizing the agricultural research for development sector, and brings a strong African voice to global forums such as the G-8 and the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR).

Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)

SACAU is a not-for-profit farmer organization representing national agricultural unions in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region formed in 1992
SACAU aims to be the main voice of farmers within the region and to promote effective producers’ organizations in all regional countries. Its mandate is to foster understanding between farmers’ organisations and policymakers in southern Africa by providing a forum for the discussion of matters of common interest and by disseminating information about agriculture in the region to relevant agencies, organizations and companies. 
Its mission is to be the main voice of farmers on regional, continental and global matters, and to promote and ensure strong and effective farmers/producers’ organisations in all countries in southern Africa.

Climate Stories (Collection of Climate Stories)

Storytelling has many histories and traditions. We tell stories as narratives, with imagery, with words, with data. We tell stories in everyday and academic voices. The thing that unites the work is that stories connect people to issues in the world and help us understand the values we are grounded in and the actions we seek. As such the stories that are shared here include those in a wide range of forms including videos, websites, policy efforts, etc. This platform provides a collection of stories reflecting on lesson-learned, outcome of projects, experience from climate activist, capacity builders, climate champions from across the globe.

Being the Change: A Collection of Climate Stories

Storytelling is a tool that can bring us together and foster a common ground on which meaningful change may take root. While individual climate stories are unique, when combined, they have the capacity to change the narrative and drive collective change. By showcasing the efforts of 2020 UN CC:Learn Champions from all over the world, these stories have the power to inspire others to join and lead the growing global movement to tackle climate change.

In this spirit, this storybook offers a collection of climate stories from UN CC:Learn’s ten climate champions. Each of which, aims to inspire others to take climate actions into their own hands. Read their stories and learn how everyone can start to make a difference.

Knowledge Management System (KMS) hosted by C2E2

The Copenhagen Centre is the global thematic hub for energy efficiency for the United Nations Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) initiative, with prime responsibility to support action towards the SEforALL energy efficiency target of doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030.

Adaptation Fund

Adaptation Fund: a pioneer in climate adaptation financing with over US$477,000,000 allocated, the Adaptation Fund gives developing countries full ownership of adaptation projects, from planning through implementation, while ensuring monitoring and transparency at every step.

African Development Bank

The African Development Bank has launched the Africa Investment Forum, a platform to mobilize private equity funds, sovereign wealth funds and the private sector to facilitate infrastructure projects with the capacity to transform the continent. The investment marketplace, which David Makhura, Premier of Gauteng Province, Africa’s seventh largest economy, called “a Davos of Africa”, will take place from November 7 to 9, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.

African Guarantee Fund

AGF is a company limited by shares incorporated under the business laws of Mauritius. It is owned by the Government of Denmark through the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) and the Government of Spain through the Spanish Agency for International Development Co-operation (aecid) and the African Development Bank (AfDB). Plans are underway to expand the shareholding base through the bringing on-board of other Multilateral and Bilateral development finance institutions.

Green Climate Fund 

The GCF Readiness Programme is a funding programme to enhance country ownership and access to the Fund. The Programme provides resources for strengthening the institutional capacities of National Designated Authorities (NDA) or Focal Points and direct access entities to efficiently engage with the Fund. Resources may be provided in the form of grants or technical assistance.

Global Environment Facility

The Capacity Building Initiative for Transparency (CBIT) aims to strengthen the institutional and technical capacities of developing countries to meet the transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement. Discover how this can help your country: https://www.thegef.org/CBIT.

NDC Funding and Initiatives Navigator 

The NDC Funding and Initiatives Navigator is a searchable database of financial and technical support that can help countries to plan and implement their NDCs. It includes open funds and technical support as well as existing assistance on the ground that will help coordination of new support.

KfW Development Bank 

KfW supports development programmes – and consequently prospects for the future – in Africa, Asia, Latin America and South-East Europe. We help partner countries to create better living conditions, while protecting the climate and the environment at the same time. The list of partner countries is more heterogeneous and dynamic than ever before. We work with developing and emerging economies and are increasingly active in countries involved in conflict.

NEPAD - Climate Change Fund

Through the NEPAD Climate Change Fund, the NEPAD Agency aims to strengthen the resilience of African countries to climate change by building national, sub-regional and continental capacity. Established in 2014 by the NEPAD Agency with support from the Government of Germany, the Fund offers technical and financial assistance to AU Member States, Regional Economic Communities and institutions that meet the eligibility criteria and clearly defined targeted areas of support of the fund. The Fund also supports projects on knowledge and capacity development for better planning, coordination, and implementation of climate change activities.

UNICEF Innovation Fund 

The innovation Fund allows UNICEF to quickly assess, fund and grow open-source solutions that can improve children's lives. Financial and technological support is available for companies that are using technology in innovative ways to improve the world.

National Forest Monitoring Systems

National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) and assessments develop reliable forest resource information (high-quality, reliable data on forests, including forest-carbon estimates) for application in creating national forest policies, planning and sustainable development - critical to the battle against climate change caused by among others deforestation and degradation of forests. 
NFMS components include: 

• Satellite land monitoring systems (SLMS) and other data collection providing information for activity data (AD)
• National Forest Inventories (NFI) or other data collection providing information on emission factors (EF)

African Capacity Building Centre (ACBC)

The IOMUN African Capacity Building Centre (IOMUN ACBC) was established in 2009 at the request of IOM African Member States with the mandate to enhance African member States’ migration management capacity, promote comprehensive migration governance, and facilitate a diverse range of immigration and border management projects and training courses.

African Centre for Biodiversity

ACB was established in 2003 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and registered in 2004. Previously named the African Centre for Biosafety, the name change was effected in April 2015, to reflect the expanded scope of the ACB's work over the past few years beyond biosafety. ACB has a long and respected track record of research and advocacy. Our current geographical focus is Southern and East Africa, with extensive continental and global networks. We do research and analysis, advocacy and skills sharing and seek to inform and amplify the voices of social movements fighting for food sovereignty in Africa.

Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)

The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) was inaugurated in May 1996 by the former President of South Africa and patron of the Academy, Nelson Mandela. It was formed in response to the need for an academy of science congruent with the dawn of democracy in South Africa - activist in its mission of using science for the benefit of society.