Building a Climate Finance Roadmap

Introduction to climate finance roadmaps for agriculture

The document provides guidelines to support USAID Missions to build country-specific climate finance roadmaps to guide efforts to accelerate the flow of finance to climate positive agriculture projects in their countries or regions. Areas covered include:

• Introduction to climate finance roadmaps
• What should be included in a climate finance roadmap
• Proposed process to develop a climate finance roadmap
• Common barriers to climate finance and intervention options
• Key resources

Note: This document is centered around a holistic systems-level approach, and Mission teams are advised to utilize the Climate Projects Guide as a resource for developing more focused and tailored project-level actions and activities.

What is a roadmap and why do we need it?

A climate finance roadmap serves as a guiding tool for relevant stakeholders, such as USAID Missions, in developing, prioritizing, and implementing interventions aimed at addressing barriers and leveraging opportunities for enhanced climate finance in the agricultural sector of the country.

A roadmap can serve as a tool for USAID Missions to assign climate finance-related duties to relevant stakeholders; identify crucial initiatives; establish projected timelines for implementation; and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as the mobilized climate financing, supported climate-related projects, and engaged external stakeholders. The roadmap may undergo periodic review and updating depending on the Mission's needs.

A template for creating a climate finance roadmap can be found here.