The Sixth Africa Climate Resilient Investment Summit (ACRIS VI) ends today in Kigali Rwanda. ACRIS is a flagship event of the Africa Climate Resilient Investment Facility (AFRI-RES) – a joint initiative of the Economic Commission for Africa, the African Union Commission, and the World Bank with initial funding support from the Nordic Development Fund (NDF). AFRI-RES supports African countries and infrastructure project developers with tools and capacities for integrating climate resilience in investments in key sectors, including agriculture, energy, water, transport, cities and ecosystems. AFRI-RES has so far trained 60 participants from 19 countries on climate resilience through the ECA’s African Institute for Economic Development and Planning, IDEP. The initiative has trained over 50 participants from 16 countries, worked with AUC and AUDA-NEPAD to provide technical training for the integration of climate resilience in the second phase of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), developed sectoral guidelines and resilience booster tool for projects design, and supported over USD 8 billion of 30 IDA / IBRD IDA funded projects across 10 sectors in Africa.
