Partnership for Central America (PCA)
Making climate adaptation a central theme of collective action
The Trafigura Foundation is supporting initiatives to bundle the capacities of government and business to make agriculture more resilient and mainstream climate adaptation, providing hope and economic opportunity in a region under environmental stress.
The challenge
Central America’s Northern Triangle suffers extreme levels of violence and is extremely vulnerable to climate risks. About 40% of labour in the region, which comprises El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, works in agriculture. In 2019‑2020, 80 percent of crops in some areas were lost to climate disasters. The UN estimates that by 2050, on current trends, farm yields will fall by a quarter, worsening food insecurity and forcing millions to migrate.
The solution
Partnership for Central America (PCA), a US-based non-profit organisation, works with public and private actors to promote job creation and sustainable economic growth and so reduce political and social violence in the region. That includes initiatives to improve financial inclusion, digital access, gender equity, job skilling, access to capital, infrastructure, and rule of law.
PCA is now also working to build support from governments and businesses for collective action to advance climate adaptation in Northern Central America and, ultimately, Central America as a whole.
Partnership impact
The Trafigura Foundation supports PCA’s efforts to mobilise governments, local businesses, indigenous communities, development agencies, and multinational companies to jointly design, finance, and implement climate adaptation initiatives across Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador.
The effort includes implementing regenerative agriculture and disaster risk insurance programmes for farmers in the region and applying a climate adaptation lens to all PCA activities.
The partnership aims to:
- Implement regenerative agriculture and provide disaster risk insurance for 10,000 farmers
- Recruit at least 10 additional businesses in the agriculture/food space to join PCA by Year 3, including 5 regional companies
- Launch at least 10 regional programmes with an adaptation component
- Formalise at least 5 partnerships related to adaptation
- Expand PCA's partner network by adding at least 20 new partners overall, including half regional companies and half multinational companies
- Establish at least 10 formal collaborations between PCA member companies and civil society
Three-year grant (2024-2026)
