Earth Today | Adaptation Fund opens call for Climate Readiness grants
Published:Thursday | February 5, 2026 | 12:09 AM
THE ADAPTATION Fund has issued a call for proposals for its readiness grants, made available to developing countries in order to enhance their capacity to directly access and effectively use resources from the Fund.
The latest call opened on Tuesday, February 3, and will remain open until April 3. The grants on offer are the Technical Assistance Grant for the Environmental and Social Policy and Gender Policy (TA-ESGP); the Technical Assistance Grant for the Gender Policy (TA-GP); and the Readiness Package Grant (RPG).
The TA-ESGP, available only to accredited national implementing entities (NIEs), is to strengthen their capacity in the areas of environmental, social and gender risk management as countries design, develop, and implement concrete adaptation projects and programmes.
An NIE is typically a government body, public agency, or national development institution accredited by the Adaptation Fund to directly access and manage resources from the Fund, on behalf of a country, without having to go through international agencies.
Once accredited, the NIE can submit project proposals directly to the Adaptation Fund and is responsible for implementing, managing, and reporting on adaptation projects. Importantly, NIEs are required to meet fiduciary standards, environmental and social safeguards, as well as gender policy requirements. Countries without an NIE can access the Adaptation Fund through Multilateral Implementing Entities (MIEs) or Regional Implementing Entities (RIEs).
The TA-GP is available to NIEs that “ already have robust environmental and social policies to put in place measures to avoid, minimise, and/or mitigate adverse gender impacts as they design, develop, and implement concrete adaptation projects and programmes”, according to information from the Adaptation Fund.
This grant is available only to accredited NIEs of the Fund, which, since 2010, has committed more than US$ 1.5 billion for climate-change adaptation and resilience projects and programmes in the developing world.
The Adaptation Fund, from which countries like Jamaica and others in the Caribbean have benefitted, is also credited with pioneering Direct Access, empowering country ownership in adaptation, even as it has operationalised other programmes such as Locally Led Adaptation and its Innovation Facility.
Meanwhile, countries that need support to accredit an NIE can apply to the RPG. The application can be submitted by an eligible NIE, RIE, or MIE in support of the country seeking the accreditation.