Six developing countries including Senegal are benefiting from a 400 million fund to support the development of green industrial policies to scale up economic growth.

The new Economic and Climate Prosperity program by the Open Society Foundations OSF aims to support rapid climate adaptation programs in the Global South.

The initiative aims to address the Climate Emergency in the Americas, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

This is the first major new program to be announced following a two-year organizational transformation at Open Society that was completed earlier this year.

David Vincent has more in the following report