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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣Call for applications: GCA's 2025 Local Adaptation Champions Awards reward innovative and scalable locally led efforts that strengthen the resilience of communities at the frontlines of #ClimateChange.

📅 Apply by: 6 July 2025
👉 gca.org/llachampions

#LLAChampions

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 23

🌍 GCA and the University of Oxford, with support from Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, have developed a new tool to drive investments in #NbS for climate-resilient infrastructure.

Read the press release: gca.org/news/gca-lau...
Explore the tool: gca.org/scaling-inve...

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 15

💬 How can private investors unlock Adaptation & Resilience (A&R) financing in Africa?

At a recent GCA roundtable, financial sector leaders explored how to integrate A&R into capital allocation and transactions.

Read more: gca.org/unlocking-ad...

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 9

🌍GCA at #CGIARScienceWeek
Great meeting with @ilri.org to advance our collaboration on integrating climate adaptation innovations into scalable investment projects and we explored future opportunities to bridge the gap between @cgiar.org technologies and the smallholder farmers who need them most

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 8

Through this project, GCA is bridging cutting-edge adaptation science with on-the-ground action through:
🔹Climate and advisory services
🔹Vulnerability assessments
🔹Value chain adaptation options
🔹Ex-ante investment forecasting

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 8

🌳🇬🇭 As part of the GCA-CGIAR partnership, GCA is working with the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT to support the World Bank’s Ghana Tree Crop Diversification Project, which aims to improve economic, climate, and social resilience in selected tree crop value chains.

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 4

📩 Exciting news! GCA is launching the hashtag#AAAP newsletter bringing you the latest on Africa’s largest adaptation program.

🔗 Subscribe now & stay ahead: eepurl.com/hFNoST

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 4

In collaboration with Tanzania’s Ministry of Agriculture, the World Bank, with support from Weather Impact, TARI and ESoko, GCA convened an inception workshop for Technical Assistance to enhance #DCAS for smallholder farmers and scoped climate-resilient seed systems.

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Global Center on Adaptation is strengthening climate adaptation in the World Bank’s Tanzania Food Systems Resilience Program #TFSRP to build a more resilient agricultural sector.
#ClimateAdaptation #FoodSystems #TanzaniaAgriculture #ResilientFarming #AdaptOurWorld

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Apr 1

This morning, GCA along with our local implementing partners Akiba Mashinani Trust and technical consultant Suez met with Homa Bay county officials to discuss the Peoples Adaptation Planning process before kicking off the first day of Community Validation Workshops.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 31

🇿🇲 In Zambia, roads are more than just routes—they're lifelines. The #TRACER project is paving the way for climate-resilient infra. By rehabilitating 200km along key trade corridors&integrating #NbS, we're future-proofing transport links vital to communities and the economy.

gca.org/paving-zambi...

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 27

🔹Onion Doctor leverages IoT and machine learning to optimize onion farming, boosting sustainability and profitability for local farmers.
🔹 MAJIK WATER pioneers atmospheric water harvesting, providing life-saving water resources to drought-affected farming communities.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 27

🌱 Empowering Young Innovators through #YouthADAPT
GCA recently visited YouthADAPT 2023 winners in Nairobi: OnionDoctor and MAJIK WATER! These inspiring young entrepreneurs are leading groundbreaking solutions to strengthen climate resilience in Kenya.

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 27

This milestone partnership marks a significant step forward in diversifying GCA’s program portfolio beyond existing partnerships with the The World Bank,African Development Bank Group and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 27

📢 GCA announced its first collaboration with the
Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) on an ambitious climate resilience project aimed at strengthening food security and agricultural value chains in Zamfara State, Nigeria.

Read the full press release: gca.org/news/gca-ann...

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 26

GCA will deliver climate risk assessments tailored to various climate change scenarios to strengthen resilience. In partnership with CGIAR’s ICRISAT, proven adaptation solutions will be implemented to benefit 1.5 million farmers, water user associations, and small and medium agribusinesses.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 26

🌍🌾 GCA organized a kick-off meeting for Technical Assistance on the World Bank-funded Niger Livestock and Agriculture Modernization Project (LAMP), aimed at enhancing productivity, commercialization, and climate resilience in Niger's agri-food sector.

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 25

The roundtable brought together senior experts within banks, guarantee providers, institutional and impact investors, and project developers working to address the challenges of market flexibility, aiming to utilize financial products for enhancing resilient economies and climate adaptation.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 25

🌍🇰🇪 Last week, GCA and World Economic Forum convened a workshop to understand the opportunities and required enablers for mobilizing private capital for adaptation and resilience (A&R) through practical applications of both listed and unlisted debt mechanisms.

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 24

In Mongla’s Narikeltola community, the project focused on tackling water scarcity by reviving ponds, installing rainwater harvesting systems, and setting up a pond sand filter. These efforts are building long-term climate resilience and transforming local livelihoods.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 24

🌍💧 Proud to see our joint initiative with BRAC
and FCDO aimed at developing Climate Resilient, Migrant-Friendly Towns in Bangladesh, featured in Dhaka Tribune on #WorldWaterDay!

www.dhakatribune.com/opinion/3769...

From crisis to resilience

Mongla, a secondary city in Bangladesh's southwest, is highly vulnerable to climate change. Its location, surrounded by tidal rivers and near the Sundarbans, exposes it to rising salinity, coastal ero...

www.dhakatribune.com

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 21

🌍🌿 Excited to see UNDRR highlight the Global Tool for Nature-based Solutions #NbS! Developed by the University of Oxford and GCA, the tool provides data-driven insights to integrate NbS into infrastructure planning, reducing risks from floods & landslides.

www.preventionweb.net/news/scaling...

Scaling investment in Nature-based Solutions for climate resilient infrastructure

A newly launched Global Tool and Finance Report, developed by the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and the Global Center on Adaptation, aim to help scale investment in nature-base...

www.preventionweb.net

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 21

Key takeaways:
✅ SIA is more than compliance—it’s a tool for inclusive, sustainable development.
✅ Projects must prioritize stakeholder needs, gender equality, social inclusion, and local economic growth.
✅ Ongoing monitoring is essential to track long-term social and economic impact.

Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 21

📚Guest Lecture on Social Impact Assessment 📚
GCA Research Analyst Folake Kareem delivered a guest lecture for MSc students at Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen

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Global Center on Adaptation @gcadaptation.bsky.social · Mar 20

The workshop focused on pathways and challenges for implementing the Roadmap —an important step toward strengthening national ownership on climate adaptation action and facilitating mobilization of finance for climate-resilient infrastructure.