Marajo Resiliente Enhancing the resilience of smallholders to climate change impacts through adapting and scaling up diversified agroforestry systems in the Marajo Archipelago of Brazil (GCF-SAP031)

Regions
  • Latin America and Caribbean
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Countries
  • Brazil
Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.
Specific Location
Marajó archipelago
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Financial Institutions
  • Green Climate Fund (GCF)
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Project Status
Approved
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Bank Risk Rating
C
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Voting Date
Oct 25, 2023
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Borrower
Fundacion Avina
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Sectors
  • Agriculture and Forestry
  • Climate and Environment
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Investment Type(s)
Grant
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Investment Amount (USD)
$ 9.40 million
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Grant Amount (USD)
$ 9.40 million
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Project Cost (USD)
$ 9.90 million
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Bank Documents
Primary Source

Original disclosure @ GCF website

Updated in EWS Jul 17, 2024

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Project Description
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According to bank website, High exposure of the Amazon delta and estuary to sea level rise due to climate anomalies, combined with limited socio-economic capacities and access to financial support by smallholders living along the Marajó archipelago of Brazil, make the area and communities around it exceptionally vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. 

Fundacion Avina aims to enhance the resilience of Marajo's smallholder communities by promoting and expanding diversified agroforestry systems (DAS). The project will focus on strengthening smallholder production, cultivating both subsistence and commercial agroforestry-based products. The project will contribute to local policy development, advocating for agroforestry-based systems as effective climate change adaptation tools. It aims to improve smallholders' access to markets for their agroforestry-based products, foster producer organisation through associations and cooperatives, and promote financial literacy, thereby enhancing their access to available financial resources such as the creation of a reserve fund. 

Investment Description
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Co-financing: USD500,000

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As stated on the company's website, Fundación Avina is a global organization that drives processes designed to change systems. Rooted in the global South, we impact the world through collaborative efforts that foster human dignity and care for the planet.


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GCF Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM)
PHONE +82 32 458 6186 (KST)

GCF Independent Integrity Unity (IIU)
PHONE +82 32 458 6714 (KST)

Fundacion Avina: 
 
Ms. Paula Ellinger 
Climate Action Strategy Lead
PHONE +54 9 11 4060-6934
PAULA.ELLINGER@AVINA.NET
 
Ms. Maribel Cabrera Alfaro 
PHONE +506 8340-2708
MARIBEL.CABRERA@AVINA.NET

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