Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund Grant

About this grant

The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund is a $150 million multi-donor trust fund (2013-2021) administered by the Asian Development Bank under the Urban Financing Partnership Facility. It aims to help fast-growing cities in Asia reduce the risks that poor and vulnerable people face from floods, storms and droughts, by helping cities better plan and design infrastructure that invests against these impacts. The fund's stated goals include rolling out about 25 infrastructure projects and other resilience measures to protect around 2 million poor and vulnerable people in target cities by 2021, and leveraging about $1 billion in investments from public, private and municipal sources. It targets scaling up urban climate change resilience investment, especially for the urban poor, across 25 secondary cities in Asia, prioritising eight developing member countries. The fund uses a systems-centred approach that makes climate change a central element of city planning. It provides technical assistance and investment grant financing, delivered through ADB operations departments, to support climate change integration into city planning, implementation of both hard (infrastructure) and soft (policy or institutional) interventions, and a strong knowledge component. The Rockefeller Foundation and the governments of Switzerland and the United Kingdom support the fund. The page is an informational fund description; it presents the fund as a financing vehicle accessed through ADB operations rather than as an open call for proposals.

Eligibility

Funds are available only for cities in the eight priority countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and Viet Nam) and are accessed through ADB Operations Department. Support is directed at secondary cities in Asia with a focus on the urban poor. The page does not describe an open application process for external organisations.

Key requirements

• ✓Focus on urban infrastructure and policy improvements in Asia-Pacific cities
• ✓Primary purpose must be strengthening climate resilience to climate impacts
• ✓Eligible applicants typically include local authorities, development organizations, and multi-stakeholder consortia
• ✓Projects should address rapidly growing urban areas vulnerable to climate change

Funder contact

The notice names a programme contact you can speak to before applying.

Frequently asked questions

How much funding does ADB Procurement Notices offer?

Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund offers $150M.

Who can apply for Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund?

Eligibility covers organisations in ASIA, SE-ASIA, SOUTH-ASIA, EAST-ASIA, OCEANIA; local-authority, nonprofit, consortium, research-institution. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.

Relevant sectors

About this sector

Climate adaptation funding helps communities, infrastructure and businesses prepare for heat, flooding, drought and sea level rise. Most of it is public and multilateral money, often targeted at vulnerable regions and delivered with local government. Calls usually ask for a climate risk assessment and evidence that local people shaped the plan.