Description

The AICCRA project cost is estimated at USD 60 million to be fully funded by the World Bank through a regional IDA grant. The Project is implemented in six African countries (Ethiopia, Kenya and Zambia in East Africa, and Ghana, Mali and Senegal in West Africa).
The Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa project (AICCRA) helps make the products of cutting-edge CGIAR-led science available throughout Africa. The Project supports strategic activities that are targeted specifically to Africa, promoting resilience to climate change and improved food security in the region. It will support critical knowledge creation and capacity building activities and enhance the ability of regional and national-level stakeholders to improve access to CIS and effectively promote uptake of Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) innovations. It will foster partnerships among and between CGIAR Centers and African research institutions, universities, extension agencies, civil society organizations, farmer organizations, and the private sector. Targeting sub-regions within Africa that are extremely vulnerable to climate change, the Project also supports on-the-ground activities in selected countries in Western, Eastern and Southern Africa where CGIAR-led science has the greatest chance of success in delivering catalytic results, which can be adopted by other countries in the region.