On October 2024, the ACCF Secretariat launched its Fourth Call for Proposals on Gender-Transformative Methane Reduction, seeking innovative projects that empower women, men, and youth in sectors such as agriculture and waste management through mitigation technologies and practices. The initiative supports African countries in fostering climate-resilient, low-carbon development and expanding access to climate finance.
This Call allocates an additional $10 million in climate mitigation financing to help African countries address methane emissions and contribute to the Global Methane Pledge. At the close of the Call on November 2024, the Secretariat received 351 Project Concept Notes (PCNs).
Unlike previous CFPs, CFP3 focused on Gender Equality and Climate Resilience (GECR), aiming to integrate NDCs into National Development Plans while addressing social differences, roles, expectations, and needs of women, men, girls, and boys, including variations within these groups. To achieve this, the ACCF Secretariat adopted a gender-transformative workstream model combining the Gender Transformative Approach (GTA)—also known as Gender-Transformative Climate Change Adaptation (GTCCA)—and the Rights-Based Approach (RBA).
In 2020, the ACCF Governing Committees approved the establishment of the Demand Driven Window (DDW) to provide grant resources on a direct request basis, enabling additional interventions and offering more targeted support to countries underrepresented in the Fund’s project portfolio. This mechanism supports strategic areas such as: (1) the electrification of rural health centers using batteries; (2) the management of medical and sanitary waste, including hazardous waste incineration; (3) land restoration in collaboration with farmers, particularly in the Sahel; and (4) the revision of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the development of Long-Term Strategies.
The Africa Climate Change Fund’s second call for proposals which closed in August 2017 received unprecedented numbers of proposals from diverse government and non-governmental entities. Eligible proponents, including African governments, regional organizations, funds, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and research institutions, either individually or in consortia, as well as Bank departments, were invited to submit a 5-page concept note to the ACCF for projects in the range of USD 250,000 - 1 million.
The objective of the CFP2 was to solicit innovative and impactful projects that will support direct access to climate finance and small–scale or pilot adaptation initiatives in sectors aligned with the Bank’s Hi-5s to build resilience of vulnerable communities in Africa.
In July 2014, the ACCF Secretariat launched a call for proposals open to African governments, NGOs, research institutions, regional institutions (jointly referred to as external recipients) and the Bank. The CFP1 focused specifically on climate finance readiness projects and programs.
Climate finance readiness can be defined as the capacity of countries to plan, access, deliver, monitor and report on climate finance, both international and domestic, in ways that are catalytic and fully integrated with national development priorities and achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The CFP1 was launched simultaneously within the Bank, and externally, through the Bank’s website. The ACCF Secretariat also circulated the announcement to the African Global Environment Facility and United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change focal points. As a result of this dissemination strategy, the information was largely circulated throughout the continent and the ACCF Secretariat received 362 proposals before the deadline.
