The Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme & Scale-up 2023-2028 Executive summary (World Food Programme)
“In the short term, the Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme aims to increase land productivity, farmers’ incomes and community resilience. In…
Integrated Resilience in the Sahel (World Food Programme)
“WFP is boosting resilience at scale in the Sahel by restoring land, building community infrastructure, promoting education, improving nutrition and…
Regreening the Sahel: A quiet agroecological evolution (Oxfam)
This case study examines the interacting factors that have led to success. It highlights the fundamental connections between human, environmental…
The Sahel’s “Great Green Wall” is more than about planting trees (commonspace.eu)
“The Sahel ‘Great green wall'”‘ is an ambitious project to plant trees across 7000 kilometers from the Red Sea to…
Climate Change and Conflict in the Sahel (Council on Foreign Relations)
“The African countries of the Sahel stand to be among the most affected by climate change. To help mitigate its…
Seven ways to support resilience and crisis responses in the Central Sahel (ECDPM)
“Communities in the Central Sahel bear the brunt of the effects of climate change and violent conflict. Their resilience is…
More than 7 million children will suffer from severe hunger in central Sahel by mid-2023 (ECHO, Save the Children via Reliefweb)
“Many factors are causing the food crisis, including conflict, poverty and climate change in the form of droughts, floods and…
World Bank Urges The Sahel Region To Prioritize Climate Adaptation (Africa-Executive)
“The newly released Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for the G5 Sahel region estimates that up to 13.5 million people across…
Will rising insecurity erase West Africa’s economic development gains? (Brookings)
“[I]nternational actors should partner with national and regional bodies to invest in alternative futures for the region. Diversified economies can…
5 myths about Disaster Risk Financing for adaptive social protection in the Sahel (World Bank)
https://blogs.worldbank.org/africacan/5-myths-about-disaster-risk-financing-adaptive-social-protection-sahel “A recent policy note evaluates what these different conditions mean for DRF for adaptive social protection in the Sahel. It identifies…