The Adaptation and Resilience Fund is a bold philanthropic commitment to accelerate solutions that build resilience to climate change in low- and middle-income countries.

ClimateWorks Foundation, with the support of a coalition of global foundations, including Howden Foundation, Laudes Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, has launched the Adaptation and Resilience Fund (A&R Fund) to support locally led efforts that reduce climate risk and strengthen community well-being. From early warning systems to innovative finance tools, the A&R Fund directs capital where it’s most needed: communities on the frontlines of climate impacts.

The Adaptation & Resilience Fund is designed to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of a changing climate. The Fund brings together philanthropic funding and expertise to address multiple climate hazards, and accelerate and catalyze systems transformation to support people facing the greatest climate impacts. In response to the United Nations secretary-general’s urgent July 25 Call to Action on Extreme Heat, the fund’s first wave of grants will focus on helping cities and communities build resilience to extreme heat in urban areas in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, prioritizing cities with high levels of informal labor and housing, inward migration pressure, and exposure to extreme heat.

Request for proposals: Solutions for urban resilience to extreme heat

The A&R Fund is excited to announce two new Requests for Proposals (RFPs) to confront one of the most urgent climate challenges of our time: extreme heat in urban areas across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Total available funding: up to $9 million

Application deadline: September 19, 2025

Find our more through the link below:

https://www.climateworks.org/programs/adaptation-and-resilience/fund/