Background

The African Union’s Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy and Action Plan (2022-2032) was endorsed on 6 February 2022 at the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly of African Heads of State and Government. 

This is Africa’s first collective climate change action plan and strategy that details specific suggested actions the continent needs to urgently achieve to respond to climate change. The strategy seeks to harmonise the continent’s response to climate change over the next decade, setting out the key guiding principles, priorities, and intervention areas for enhanced climate cooperation.

Partnerships will be key to the effective implementation of the strategy. Member states, development partners, civil society, the private sector and other stakeholders all have a role to play in the operationalisation of the strategy, including the provision of technical and financial support.

Collectively, we can achieve immense impact through co-design and joint implementation of projects and initiatives to support the strategy’s objectives, thereby contributing to a sustainable, prosperous, equitable and climate-resilient Africa.

About the event

For the strategy to succeed, immediate actions are needed to maintain momentum and to enhance its operationalisation.

In this regard, the African Union Commission is hosting the inaugural strategic Climate Investment Partnership Roundtable. This event will allow for interactive brainstorming, strategic planning and catalysing investment opportunities and partnership alignment to support the key needs, intervention axes and priorities of the Strategy.

The roundtable is an opportunity to bring together key actors to strategize a collective approach to bring cohesion between the different climate change efforts on the continent and co-ordinate these under the strategic direction and priority intervention areas of the Strategy.

The roundtable will stimulate strategic consolidation and scaling of investment pipelines as well as implementation coordination to stimulate the necessary actions on the ground.

Agenda

Day one - Monday 19 June

• Welcoming remarks, introductions and objectives
• Overview of the African Union Climate Change and Resilient Development Strategy
• Background and overview of the key priority areas and intervention axes and actions in the strategy
• Operational road map and key engagement areas
• Enhanced programmatic alignment with key policies, initiatives and stakeholders across multiple scales
• Working groups on investment priorities and linking to the strategic axis of the strategy
• Feedback on thematic prioritization of areas for program development and investment gaps

Day two - Tuesday 20 June

• Transformative investments and partnerships
• Identifying key criteria for program development
• Thematic working groups on program development and partnership and investment mapping
• Identification and aligningment of key areas
• Articulation of roadmap to Africa Climate Summit in September and financing pledges
• Roundtable formal closing and delegates depart

For more information about the event and to connect with AICCRA's team participating in the roundtable, contact Silvia Kibita at s.kibita@cgiar.org