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Mtwara

Mwanza

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Rukwa

Ruvuma

Shinyanga

Arusha

Singida

Dar es Salaam

Tabora

Dodoma

Tanga

Iringa

Manyara

Kagera

Geita

Pemba North

Katavi

Zanzibar North

Njombe

Kigoma

Simiyu

Kilimanjaro

Songwe

Pemba South

Zanzibar South

Lindi

Mara

Mbeya

Zanzibar West

Tanzania

130,000 ha increased national forest cover by 2020 against a 2015 baseline

6% non-hydro renewable of power generated by 2015

60% districts have climate change and risk reduction strategies by 2020

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To strengthen the climate resilience of smallholder farmers and vulnerable rural communities through promotion of diversified, nature-based livelihoods, improved access to climate-linked financial services, and evidence-based scaling of climate-smart adaptation practices

Eastern and Southern Africa are highly vulnerable to climate change, facing recurrent droughts, floods, heatwaves, and increasingly erratic rainfall that intensify water stress and land degradation. These climate stresses are compounded by rapid population growth, projected to rise from around 749 million in 2023 to nearly 964 million by 2050, placing growing pressure on already overstretched infrastructure. In 2023, around 365 million people lacked access to electricity and 580 million lacked access to clean cooking, severely constraining adaptation, productivity, and health outcomes across the region.

The ASCENT-GREEN project  aims to support climate-vulnerable communities across 21 countries in Eastern and Southern Africa by catalysing private-sector delivery of distributed renewable energy, clean cooking, and productive-use energy. It seeks to increase climate resilience, drive economic development, and reduce emissions across some of the region's most remote and fragile contexts.

Structured around three components, the project will establish a regional energy access financing facility providing affordable lending, results-based financing, and technical assistance, prioritizing rural households, fragile, conflict-affected populations, small and medium-sized enterprises and women-owned enterprises; develop regional de-risking facilities including a risk-sharing facility and a carbon risk mitigation facility to crowd in private capital; and establish a Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)-led regional platform to coordinate policy, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing across participating countries.

Through financing instruments that address barriers such as affordability, risk perception, and scaling up, the project will mobilise significantly larger private flows and accelerate market transformations, enabling far greater reach. It is expected to directly benefit 28.8 million people and indirectly reach a further 13.8 million, supporting improved access to energy services and enhanced resilience across participating countries.

The project's overall objective is to pioneer integrated and innovative approaches to catalyzing more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient food systems transformation in four African countries while distilling lessons and knowledge that can inform and inspire the way forward with continental and global agendas and programs.

<p>The project aims to strengthen climate information and early warning systems in The Gambia and Tanzania by improving the generation, delivery, and use of climate data and services to enhance resilience and reduce vulnerability to climate-related hazards. It will modernize meteorological and hydrological infrastructure, establish multi-hazard early warning systems, and enhance institutional coordination across national and local levels. The project also promotes user-centered climate services for sectors such as agriculture, water, and disaster risk reduction, while ensuring accessibility of information to farmers, women, and youth.</p>

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