This project seeks to apply an NBS approach to improve and/or enhance the resilience of several sectors, starting with infrastructure assets in Africa and Central Asia. The NBS-IA seeks to support entities that work on sustainable infrastructure and NBS from a design, technical and/or technological innovation perspective, and which are in the development, testing and/or implementation stage of their product or service, with grants and other support (e.g. communication, knowledge management and connections with potential (co)funders/investors) to advance their solutions in green infrastructure and other key NBS sectors. The overall objective is to create a NBS Innovation Accelerator (NBS-IA) in emerging markets that proves that it is possible to apply financially-viable NBS solutions to a wide variety of sectors – starting with infrastructure. The NBS-IA aims to support entities working on concrete NBS solutions, both public and private, that also have the potential to attract subsequent capital from public and/or private investors (e.g., impact investors, multilateral funds, DFIs, MDBs) to implement and scale their solution(s) in practice.