AFRI-RES is identifying good practices for climate-resilient investments and developing a set of knowledge products that span sectors and stages of the project development cycle.
AFRI-RES is identifying good practices for climate-resilient investments and developing a set of knowledge products that span sectors and stages of the project development cycle.
This toolkit provides a robust approach for project teams to enhance resilience impact by embedding resilience attributes into the project design, and by strengthening resilience monitoring during implementation. For World Bank teams, the integration of resilience attributes can also help to meet corporate climate commitments.
The toolkit was rolled out in collaboration with UNECA.
Lessons notes covering five key sectors – agriculture, ecosystems and water, energy, health and urban and transport – summarize lessons and practices deployed in embedding climate resilience into the design of projects that received catalytic funds from AFRI-RES. They draw from application of the Resilience Booster Tool to specific projects, as relevant, and the Compendium Volume on Climate Resilient Investment in Sub- Saharan Africa.
The Embedding Climate Resilience into Agriculture Projects Note highlights the importance of embedding resilience along agricultural value chains for achieving food security through strategies including climate-smart agriculture and integrated farm and landscape management.
The Embedding Climate Resilience into Ecosystem and Water Projects Note explores the criticality of sustainable land management strategies, nature-based solutions, and the interlinkages of the water-energy-food nexus for designing resilient ecosystem and water projects.
The Embedding Climate Resilience into Energy Projects Note details four categories of resilient investments, including reducing asset vulnerability, reducing liabilities and hazardous conditions created by infrastructure, enhancing the reliability and service delivery of the electricity network, and reducing the response time and increase the capacity to respond when natural hazards occur.
The Embedding Climate Resilience into Urban and Transport Projects Note discusses structural and non-structural measures to mitigate flood impacts and improve preparedness, participatory community upgrading to increase longer-term resilience, and key action areas to enhance the resilience of transport projects.
The Building Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Systems in Africa Note discusses the importance of leadership and governance, capacity building, health financing, and integrated health information systems and diseases surveillance for scaling up resilience into health projects.”
This Compendium presents a series of guidance notes and complementary technical notes that offer practical insights in support of enhancing the climate resilience of infrastructure investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The guidance notes provide practical “how to” guidance for enhancing the climate-resilience of infrastructure investments in Africa. Focusing on six climate-sensitive sectors – agriculture, ecosystems, energy, transport, urban areas, and water – the guidance notes synthesize the latest research and methods on achieving climate-resilient investment.
Five technical notes include: (i) A Primer on Working with Climate Projections; (ii) A Primer on Economic Modeling; (iii) Decision-Making Under Climate Uncertainty; (iv) Overview of the AFRI-RES Training Program; and (v) Working with Consultants on Project Level Resilience and Vulnerability Assessments.”
AFRI-RES supported the application of the International Hydropower Association’s Hydropower Sector Climate Resilience Guidelines by providing funding to pilot the use of the guidelines in Africa, specifically with the Malawi Mpatamanga Hydropower Project.