The ECA C&CC Program is embedded in the World Bank’s Sustainable Urban and Regional Development (SURGE) Umbrella Program. The objective of SURGE is to enable cities and regions to function as drivers of green, sustainable, and inclusive economic development. This is achieved by supporting governments and local authorities to address challenges stemming from rapid urbanization and unequal regional development processes and to consolidate efforts to build livable, inclusive, competitive, low-carbon and resilient cities and regions.
The objective of the ECA C&CC Program is to support World Bank client countries in the ECA region, which are currently preparing or implementing a World Bank lending operation to explicitly incorporate urban climate change mitigation and adaptation considerations into the project. The total budget over the implementation period of six years (2023 – 2029) is US$8.17 million. The ECA C&CC Program is embedded in the World Bank’s Sustainable Urban and Regional Development (SURGE) Umbrella Program.
SURGE was established in 2020 and is managed by the Urban, Disaster Risk Management, Resilience and Land Global Practice (GPURL).
