Livestock Sector Climate Finance Flows in selected African countrie

This study presents a continental assessment of climate finance flows to the livestock sector in Africa, covering Botswana, Chad, Kenya, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Zambia over 2015–2025. Using a six-step methodology built on earlier studies in Western and Eastern Africa, the report maps committed international and national finance against funding sources, donors, financial instruments, disbursement channels, beneficiaries, climate dimensions, targeted livestock systems and priority interventions.
The findings show that livestock remains substantially underrepresented in African climate finance. Nigeria and Kenya mobilised the largest volumes, but across most countries funding reaches livestock indirectly, through broader agricultural or multisectoral projects rather than dedicated livestock initiatives. Adaptation dominates the climate rationale, while mitigation remains nascent, constrained by weak measurement, reporting and verification systems. Multilateral development banks and international climate funds are the principal sources, public institutions the principal beneficiaries, and private-sector participation remains limited.
The report sets out short-, medium- and long-term recommendations for African Union Member States and partners, including explicit integration of livestock into national climate finance strategies, readiness support for bankable proposals, institutionalised MRV training, and a continental platform for livestock climate finance knowledge exchange and advocacy.