Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) - CIFOR-Component

About this project

Contract related to: Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) - CIFOR-Component - The Great Green Wall (GGW) is a lighthouse African initiative to regreen the Sahel from Senegal to Somalia. The GGW has ambitions to become a comprehensive rural development and sustainable land management initiative, aiming to transform the lives of Sahelian populations by supporting a mosaic of green and productive landscapes. It leverages a diversity of projects, with the potential to contribute to several EU and African objectives, including on those pertaining to food security, sustainable agri-food systems, water, addressing desertification, climate change and biodiversity loss, sustainable energy, decent job creation, and, more broadly, resilience, stability and sustainable and inclusive development. The EU has pledged to support the GGW, primarily through its country programmes, complemented and supported by a light regional Action, described hereunder. The EU¿s support to the Great Green Wall holds the status as a `Flagship¿.The overall objective of this regional Action is to enable sustainable land management and livelihoods in support of the Great Green Wall initiative and to accelerate progress towards its objectives. The Action will focus primarily on the eleven countries that are members of the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti). Wherever possible, this Action…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 1No Poverty
• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 7Affordable and Clean Energy
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land
• 17Partnerships for the Goals

Published by

European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships · Other public sector

Sectors

Rural developmentEnvironmental policy and administrative managementAgricultural land resources

Focus

Gender equality · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Also contributesBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Main focus

Places

289 - Mauretania

Funded by

European Commission

Implemented by

CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY R ESERCH

Accountable

World AgroForestry Centre

Passes funds through

Directorate-General for International Partnerships

Published by European Commission - Directorate-General for International Partnerships to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 29 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XI-IATI-EC_INTPA-2023-PC-28503.

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