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…
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…
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…
Mali, Resilience Learning in the Sahel: Impact evaluation (World Food Programme)
https://www.wfp.org/publications/mali-resilience-learning-sahel-impact-evaluation “The Mali impact evaluation baseline report details key findings from the baseline data on key outcomes, which include measures…
Guide for civil society – Scaling Agroecology in the Sahel (Inter-Réseaux)
“Groundswell International and Cultivate! publish this new report on how to develop and diversify agro-ecology in the Sahel. The report…
Moving from Reaction to Action: Anticipating Vulnerability Hotspots in the Sahel – A Synthesis Report from the Sahel Predictive Analytics Project in Support of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (adelphi, CUNY, DRC)
“Crisis prevention and resilience building is a shared responsibility that demands a wide range of expertise and collaboration across academic,…
Climate change, vulnerability and security in the Sahel (Climate Diplomacy)
“Climate change plays an important role in the future of the Sahel. Temperatures could rise 1.5 times faster than the…
Desertification in Africa: Causes, Effects and Solutions (earth.org)
“With the Sahel region being the most vulnerable and heavily affected by desertification, an initiative known as ‘The Green Wall’…