The Mitigation Action Facility (MAF), an agile, grant-based multi-donor fund, is advancing transformative climate action by supporting ambitious projects in energy, transport, and industry. Functioning both as a climate fund and a Knowledge and Learning Hub, MAF connects projects, stakeholders, and the wider climate finance community. By embedding learning into all its activities, the facility captures, shares, and applies insights from funded projects, ensuring lessons learned inform ongoing work and inspire global replication.
The Knowledge and Learning Hub operates across four interconnected dimensions: connecting people, including projects in preparation and implementation as well as the broader public; supporting learning processes to identify evidence-based insights and enable continuous learning from successes and failures; leveraging digital tools and knowledge products to facilitate knowledge sharing internally and externally; and guiding learning activities through clear policies. Together, these dimensions foster co-learning, strengthening project efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability while building a strong community committed to decarbonizing key sectors.
Projects funded by MAF actively engage in knowledge exchange, translating lessons into action and adapting approaches across contexts. Examples include Brazil’s Industrial Energy Efficiency project mentoring women in a male-dominated sector, India’s Waste Management project empowering women to run facilities while promoting eco-friendly practices citywide, Thailand’s Low-Emission Rice project inspiring Costa Rica’s coffee sector to adopt life-cycle greenhouse gas data collection, and Tunisia’s Clean Energy in Buildings project restructuring its financial mechanism after learning from Colombia’s Domestic Refrigeration project, mobilizing an additional EUR 20 million for renewable energy access. Structured exchanges, evaluations, webinars, working groups, and digital tools ensure these insights are captured, documented, and widely shared.
Looking ahead, MAF’s Knowledge and Learning Hub demonstrates that climate action is most effective when rooted in shared experience. By investing in learning, digital resources, and collaborative spaces, the facility builds a legacy of knowledge that empowers current practitioners and equips future generations to accelerate decarbonization, advance carbon-neutral development, and contribute to the Paris Agreement goals. In an era where scalable climate solutions are urgent, MAF’s commitment to knowledge sharing serves as a cornerstone for a resilient, carbon-neutral future.
