Call for funding proposals: economics of climate change adaptation in Africa

✓ Raising Adaptation Impact andAmbition (RAIA)is a UK Aid-fundedclimate adaptation projectunder
the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)’s Climate Adaptation and Resilience
(CLARE) Research Programme , led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP ) in
partnership with Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI). RAIA addresses persistent gaps in economic
evidence, research capacity, and policy tools needed to promote effective climate change adaptation
in developing countries. Despite growing climate impacts, many countries still struggle to identify priority adaptation investments, evaluate their economic costs and benefits, and incorporate adaptation into national planning, budgeting, and financing frameworks. These challenges lead to low ambition for adaptation and hinder the optimal use of available climate finance. RAIA addresses these challenges by bridging the science-policy divide.
✓ It aims to enhance the capacity of economic researchers to produce policy-relevant analysis, co-created with relevant stakeholders so that this evidence is used to strengthen government plans, policies, and strategies that enable countries to pursue equitable and inclusive climate-resilient development pathways.

Applicants must meet the following eligibility requirements:
✓ The lead applicant organization must be a university, an academic institution,a policy or
economic research institution, a parastatal body, a think tank, or an independent entity.
Government ministries are not eligible to apply.
✓ The lead applicant organisation must be legally registered and based in an African country and
must demonstrate relevant prior experience in similar research projects, such as climate risk
analysis, economic impact assessments, climate finance, or relatedclimate adaptation and
economic policy research.
✓ The research project clearly demonstrates that it addresses a specific and well -defined barrier or gap in economic research related to inclusive adaptation, that has a clearly identified pathway for implementation (e.g. filling a specific policy gap, a demand from a Ministry of Finance etc.)
✓ The applicant organizationmust demonstrate an existing partnership, collaboration, or prior working relationship with the Ministry of Finance /similarnational finance authority.
✓ The delivery of the proposed research activities, methodology, and outputs align with the overall RAIA programme time frames.

✓ Inception report and work plan
✓ Annotated outline of the research output
✓ Draft 1 of the research output for internal review
✓ Draft 2 of the research output, for internal review, including clear evidence of the process incorporating perspectives and being thoroughly validated and bought in by key stakeholder
✓ Final draftof the research output, inclusive of a database of all climate and economic models (annexed), and summary report incorporating peerreview comments.
✓ Draft policy brief synthesizing the finding
✓ Three draft manuscript
✓ PowerPoint presentation of p reliminaryresults, including figures, tables , etc., covering the situation analysis, the preliminary findings and the pathway for impact. This should also include clear evidence of engagement and feedback from key stakeholders

✓ Budget and Payment Schedule
The anticipated funding envelope is US$80,000- US$120,000, to be allocated across 10 to 12 research
projects. Fund disbursements will be made in threetranches as per the schedule below.
Payment schedule
✓ 45% first instalment payable upon signing of the contract
✓ 35% second instalment payable upon submission and approval of deliverable 6
✓ 20% final instalment payable upon submission and approval of deliverable 7