Canada. Global Affairs | Partnering for Climate

As part of Canada's doubling of its previous climate commitment from $2.65 billion to $5.3 billion and its objective to leverage the climate action expertise and commitment of organizations in Canada, $315 million has been allocated for Partnering for Climate , to fund projects from civil society, Indigenous peoples and other organizations in Canada that will support climate change adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world.

This commitment advances implementation of the Feminist International Development Policy (FIAP) through support to the Environment and Climate Action Area.

In 2020, the Government of Canada reached out to partners across Canada and the world. We asked them for their views about our next climate commitment. A number of key messages stood out, including:

• The Canadian government should increase funding for climate change adaptation–including for locally led solutions that increase resiliency to the impacts of climate change;
• The government should leverage the knowledge expertise and resources of civil society, Indigenous peoples and other organizations in Canada to help developing countries achieve their climate change adaptation objectives;
• Nature and nature-based solutions (NbS) have a critical role to play in this area.

In response to what we heard, and as a reflection of Canada’s commitment to both the Paris Agreement and the G7 2030 Nature Compact, Global Affairs Canada has established Partnering for Climate.

The $315 million Partnering for Climate allocation includes two main components:

1. $300 million to support projects that use NbS to help countries, communities and people in Sub-Saharan Africa – a particularly climate-vulnerable region – to become more resilient to the impacts of climate change. This funding includes at least $20 million to help advance women’s rights and climate change adaptation.
2. $15 million to support Indigenous peoples in Canada to partner with Indigenous peoples in developing countries across the world to achieve their climate action objectives. Global Affairs Canada will provide more information on this additional funding following further engagement.

Global Affairs Canada may give preference to projects that respond to the following objectives:

• Inclusive partnership approaches that bring in new, non-traditional development partners such as Canadian environmental NGOs, the private sector and researchers with knowledge, capabilities or goods and services that are relevant to the success of climate change adaptation—To accommodate this objective, preference may be given to organizations that submit an application in partnership with smaller or newer Canadian organizations working in international development or climate action to facilitate greater cooperation in the NbS community and support mentoring and accompaniment.
• Support across a range of ecosystems to help expand the capacity of organizations in Canada to support NbS in different priority ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa—This may be done by favouring projects that target ecosystems with less access to funding in general and by selecting different projects as part of a portfolio approach, to ensure that funding is allocated to different priority ecosystems.
• Approaches and tools to test solutions, and learn and report what does and does not work—Given the urgency of scaling effective solutions to climate change adaptation and sharing learnings among organizations supporting climate adaptation through NbS, Global Affairs Canada may favor projects that include a commitment and resources to experiment with locally led solutions and to regularly monitor (beyond the traditional project cycle) and widely report on successes and failures.
• Localized approaches—Adaptation to climate change needs to take into account the specificity of local contexts.  It should also support local involvement, knowledge and ownership, including promoting women and Indigenous peoples’ access to, and control over, resources.

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