AREAS OF WORK

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Our work is focused in three interconnected areas: sustainable livelihoods, thriving nature and prepared communities. Synergistic interplay between these themes allows us to address social, economic, and environmental challenges systemically.

Creating synergies across sectors can boost income generation, natural resource management, and community resilience to climate change. Empowering communities in decision-making and resource management enhances social cohesion, reduces inequalities, and fosters adaptive governance.

Our investments contribute to making livelihoods more sustainable, helping people to earn a decent living while restoring and conserving nature. The programmes we fund support smallholder farmers, regenerative agriculture, ecosystem management and sustainable business practices.

We also support programmes that help prepare communities to face and recover from multiplying disasters.

Resilient communities &
ecosystems

Prepared
Communities

By building their resilience, local communities enhance their capacity to anticipate, withstand, and recover from the impacts of climate change and other hazards.

Thriving
Nature

Diverse ecosystems are crucial for human well-being, offering clean air, water, fertile soil, and protection against extreme weather or natural disasters.. Conservation and restoration of natural habitats through sustainable land and water management enhance both human and environmental resilience, promoting climate adaptation.

Sustainable
Livelihoods

We prioritise inclusive economic opportunities resilient to climate change. We support activities such as sustainable agriculture and fisheries, renewable energy and green entrepreneurship. Our aim is reduce poverty, enhance food security, and build resilient livelihoods for vulnerable communities.

Under these three areas of work, we support the following priority themes

Green energy
communities
Fair and just
transition for
workers
Green
entrepreneurship
Disaster
response
Disaster risk
reduction
Climate resilient
agriculture
Ecosystem
restoration and
management
Scaling up
ecosystem-based
adaptation

AREAS OF
WORK

Advancing climate
adaptation

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Sustainable livelihoods

We fund programmes that enhance climate resilience for communities by supporting workers affected by climate change, advancing green economy sectors and sustainable solutions, and hastening innovation in clean energy solutions for productive uses in remote communities.
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Thriving nature

We invest in partnerships that support the sustainable use, management, and restoration of ecosystems by involving local communities as the stewards, knowledge-holders, and owners of those resources.
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Prepared communities

We support organisations and coalitions that promote community resilience – the ability to prepare for, cope with, and recover from shocks and stress. We also provide funding for humanitarian response after disasters, while backing long-term recovery and resilience-building.