Financing Change in Africa: Where are we?

<p>The<a href="https://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/" target="_blank">&nbsp;Climate Investment Funds (CIF</a>), a multilateral climate finance mechanism, has been working with the continent's premier financial development institution, the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.afdb.org/en" target="_blank">African Development Bank (AfDB</a>) - CIF's implementing entity - renewable financing energy, forestry, and resilience solutions in Africa. Of about $8billion funding, Africa receives one-third of the total funding. In today's conversation, Mafalda Duarte, the Climate Investment Funds CEO, and Gareth Phillips, the climate and environmental finance manager at the AfDB, gives a backgrounder the Climate Investment Funds and the portfolio of work CIF have implemented with the AfDB.</p>