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Financing Climate Resilience in African Cities

Cities need money to turn resilience plans into projects. This pathway introduces urban climate finance, shows how to prepare a fundable concept note, and explores local climate funds and financing for nature-based solutions.

Category: Urban Development | Climate Change Adaptation

6–8 hoursAdvanced5 steps

Your journey Start this pathway and work through its steps, then pass the quiz. Your progress is saved to your account, and you can download your record of completion when you complete the pathway.

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What you'll learn

  • Describe the main sources and pathways of climate finance available to cities.
  • Outline what a project concept note needs to access climate finance.
  • Compare local climate funds and options for financing nature-based solutions.

Course content

5 steps • 6–8 hours total
Accessing urban climate financeE-Learning • C40 Cities

Open resource: Accessing urban climate finance

Why this step: Start with the landscape: where urban climate finance comes from and how cities can access it.

Climate finance pathways for cities: Lessons, enablers, and replicable modelsReport • C40 Cities

Open resource: Climate finance pathways for cities: Lessons, enablers, and replicable models

Why this step: Learn from cities that have unlocked climate finance, and the enablers they relied on.

Developing A Project Concept Note For Accessing Climate FinanceReport • ICLEI Africa

Open resource: Developing A Project Concept Note For Accessing Climate Finance

Why this step: Put it into practice: how to write a project concept note that funders will read.

Financing the local climate transition through local climate fundsReport • C40 Cities

Open resource: Financing the local climate transition through local climate funds

Why this step: Explore local climate funds as a way to finance the local transition.

Financing and implementing nature-based solutions in urban areas: A guide for local actors in the Global SouthFramework / Guideline • C40 Cities

Open resource: Financing and implementing nature-based solutions in urban areas: A guide for local actors in the Global South

Why this step: Close with nature-based solutions: how to finance and implement them in urban areas.