When the Climate Investment Funds (CIF)’ CEO Mafalda Duarte travelled to Burkina Faso in early 2020, she met in a local forest a young man who had a new bicycle and a new cell phone. She learned that this young man’s job was to go into the forest, and check for fires. His equipment had been made available as a result of CIF funding, but it is n...

The independent evaluation of the Scaling up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP), released earlier this year, provides a rigorous, external assessment of the ambitious energy access program of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF). The findings and recommendations from this report, called "Evaluation of the Scaling up Renewable Ene...

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, November 9, 2022—The Climate Investment Funds (CIF), one of the world’s largest multilateral funds for climate action in developing countries, will finance nature-based solutions to the climate crisis in Egypt, the Dominican Republic, Fiji, Kenya, and Africa’s Zambezi River Basin Region, cutting across Zambia, Malawi, Mozambi...

The mighty Zambezi River flows from Zambia to Mozambique and the Indian Ocean, crossing seven countries and providing one of the largest freshwater catchments in Africa and worldwide. 47 million people live along the shores of the Zambezi watercourse, most of them dependent on rain fed agriculture. With climate change, Zambezi basin farmers and com...

In 2018, The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) celebrated its 10th anniversary. To mark the occasion the CIF@10 campaign was launched to honor the achievements and lessons learned from the first ten years. CIF reflects on its journey by sharing stories by those who have benefited from climate finance.The yearlong campaign highlighted that a shift towa...

Often, women in developing countries have unequal access to education, information, and leadership roles within climate finance and climate-resilient, low-carbon development investments. Their livelihoods, voices, knowledge and agency are greatly reduced, but the growing and impassioned call for a balance of power is changing how women engage and t...

Strengthening Climate Resilience in the Kafue sub-Basin is a project started by CIF and the African Development Bank in 2013. Earlier this year, it received 7,000 votes to win the prestigious Water Changemakers People’s Choice Award (Africa) at the Climate Adaptation Summit. This short interview about the project, and a parallel project in Zambia...

The impacts of climate change can be devastating for a country like Zambia, which depends on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and natural resources. The agricultural sector employs 70 percent of the population and is critically important for poor rural households, national food security, and providing raw materials for the manufacturin...

The impacts of climate change can be devastating for a country like Zambia, which depends on climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and natural resources. The agricultural sector employs 70 percent of the population and is critically important for poor rural households, national food security, and providing raw materials for the manufacturin...