It is built around the following six priority areas:. The plan will bring coherence, improve coordination and strengthen collaboration with all partners in the region. National and regional institutions, bilateral and multilateral organizations, the private sector and civil society organizations will work towards operationalizing and implementing the Security Council resolutions on the Sahel.
Women, youth and job creation will cut across all priority areas and interventions, aiming at strengthening governance, improving security and building resilience, as well as promoting a more integrated approach to address the humanitarian-security-development nexus as a strategy to accelerate the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals SDGs.
With Therefore, investments in education and vocational training could yield huge demographic dividends. For instance, in September, we launched our new NaturAfrica initiative. NaturAfrica landscapes will constitute building blocks of the Great Green Wall. It is about sustainable agriculture, forestry, land restoration and green value chains. In our new international development programme, the Great Green Wall priorities feature prominently in most Sahel countries that are part of it.
Tomorrow we will be making an equivalent commitment to landscape restoration with a major focus on Africa. Land pledge.
The event focuses on the Great Green Wall initiative, which aims to plant more than 20 million trees across 8, kilometres the width of Africa, to tackle desertification.
Amazon founder is matching a past contribution for land restoration in Africa. The Great Green Wall initiative will plant 20m trees across the width of Africa.
Prince was 'instrumental' in bringing Mr Bezos and Emmanuel Macron together Mr Bezos said: 'We all know that this is the decisive decade, but without action, it will become the indecisive decade. Please consider us an ally for this important cause. President Dr Akinwumi A.
The African Development Bank is a major partner in this bold project, which involves building an 8, km long and 15 km wide swathe of trees, grasslands, vegetation and plants across the Sahel.
The aim is to give new impetus to this iconic African Union initiative. On that occasion, the President of the French Republic committed to closely follow progress as regards mobilizing donors for the Accelerator and its implementation. The funding will fast track efforts to restore degrading land, save biological diversity as well as create green jobs and build resilience of the Sahelian people.
Biodiversity is our life insurance, but it is under threat. The COVID19 crisis has dramatically changed our lives; and it has also brought to the forefront the crucial need to better preserve biodiversity.
Our lives and economies rely on nature. The Summit brought together heads of state and government, leaders of international organizations, financial institutions, companies and NGOs, all ready to demonstrate that their commitments are leading to concrete actions to preserve and restore biodiversity, and to lead systemic transformations of our economies.
This high-level meeting is a major milestone for the political mobilization for nature in , the year that should lead to an ambitious new international agreement on biodiversity. The Great Green Wall Initiative is regreening the Sahel, restoring degraded lands and providing decent livelihoods for its people, snaking the Sahel all the way from Senegal in the West to Djibouti in the East, restoring degraded lands and providing jobs and opportunities for millions of people in Africa.
In a post COVID context where Sahelian countries are struggling with budgets and funding, the new commitments launched at One Planet Summit will help meet financial requirements and turbo charge the achievement of GGW goals. To complete the Wall, it is estimated that USD 33 billion US dollars of investment — from private, national and international sources will be needed. President Akinwumi A. The appointment was made at a forum held in the margins of the One Planet Summit to mobilise support for the ambitious project to plant an 8, km swathe of trees and other vegetation across the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.
The Great Green Wall will act as a barrier against desertification and aims to create over 10 million green jobs in the region. In the role of champion, Adesina will lead the mobilisation of political and economic support for the initiative. We need to beef up the initiative for all the 11 countries. Adesina praised the initiative. Without the Great Green Wall, in the face of climate change and desertification, the Sahel may disappear.
Qu emphasized FAO's commitment to the Great Green Wall Initiative stating that the UN organization had worked with local communities in the Sahel region on a comprehensive approach towards land restoration by providing plant science and mechanization of traditional agricultural methods to transform agri-food systems and landscapes.
Endorsed by the African Union in , the Great Green Wall is Africa's flagship initiative to combat climate change and desertification and address food insecurity and poverty with the goal of restoring million hectares by FAO has played a leading role implementing projects linked to the initiative.
FAO's activities include technical assistance on the restoration of degraded lands across the Sahel from Mauritania and Senegal in the west to Djibouti and Eritrea in the east of the continent.
Indeed, how, and above all what is the rationale behind a programme aiming to re-green an kilometres long stretch from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea? One that crosses 11 countries as diverse as Djibouti and Eritrea in the East or runs from Nigeria through Senegal and Mauritania to the West? What are the sources of funding?
What level of political will and determination exist to achieve these goals? Additionally, the Great Green Wall would create millions of jobs, especially in rural areas. Jobs that could meet the basic needs of young people and deter their temptation to engage in dangerous activities, such as illegal immigration, terrorism or illicit trafficking.
It also meant millions of women, who are essential producers in these rural areas, could add value to their products, thanks to improved access to electricity, in particular solar energy. The added value of coupling technology and energy would be to increase access to markets by stemming the enormous loss of agricultural produce caused by inadequate infrastructure at the processing and conserving stages.
National policies have also evolved favourably despite a lingering prioritisation of urban investment, often to the detriment of the transformation of rural economies. Investing in the Great Green Wall has the potential to change these conditions.
It would make it possible to create and tap into value chains, transform and add value to local products rather than export raw products and create green and sustainable jobs rather than have the youth fending for themselves. The provisional results from the first twelve years of the Great Green Wall are encouraging, with nearly 20 million hectares of land restored.
But, to borrow from the Olympic motto, we need to go faster, higher, stronger to meet the goals A new wonder of the world benefiting present and future generations. Hosted by the African Development Bank at its headquarters in the Ivorian capital Abidjan, GCA Africa will work with partners across the continent to scale and accelerate adaptation action that protects African communities from the impacts of climate change.
GCA Africa will focus on programs and action, knowledge acceleration and capacity building and agenda-setting that respond to the acute challenges from the changing climate facing African countries. The GCA Africa programs include improving the food security of one billion people in Sub-Saharan Africa by through a program on rural well-being and food security, as well as projects to support communities through water for urban growth and resilience; using nature for more resilient infrastructure; adaptation finance and building youth leadership.
I welcome the Global Center on Adaptation Africa as a crucial partner in delivering the elevated ambition and enhanced action that is needed to make this shift towards a resilient future. In effect, the security crisis and the economic crisis in the Sahel feed on each other in an endless vicious cycle.
Breaking this cycle will require a sense of urgency and continuing commitment and cooperation across institutions, including the IMF.
A strategic schedule of technical and high-level meetings could help maintain momentum. Read more. We borrow it from our children. Millions of people living in the land of the Sahel today face desert and drought, hunger and violence, economic insecurity and now a devastating pandemic. But how we act now will determine whether or not the future is brighter for the next generation.
And with over 64 percent of the population in the Sahel under 25 years of age, this is an especially urgent task. First, strong international cooperation to help resolve the security crisis in the Sahel. Second, stronger domestic foundations for success. If we want to ensure that efforts to address the security crisis can succeed without crowding out other urgent spending and harming the most vulnerable, it is vital to reinforce economic fundamentals. Third, stepped-up support from external partners.
Given the magnitude of needs in the Sahel, domestic efforts will not be enough. External partners have already brought direct security support and financial assistance to the region, and supported the creation of the G-5 Sahel and the Sahel Alliance. But much more is needed. All of us, including the IMF, have a critical role to play in supporting the countries of the Sahel.
Budget support, including in the form of grants, will be particularly important. Fourth, increased resilience. COVID is not the first shock this region has faced. It will not be the last — especially with the looming climate crisis.
Even as we attend to immediate and urgent needs, we must recognize that building a better future also requires building resilience in the face of future shocks. This will require investing in people — building up human capital, expanding access to digital technologies, supporting public health systems.
Let me end on a note of hope — and responsibility. If completed, it would be the largest living structure on the planet. This symbolizes that it is possible to build forward better — to leave the world we are borrowing from our children better, more sustainable, more inclusive.
If we work together, I believe that a better future in the Sahel is well within our grasp. Read further. Read the whole story here. The GGWSSI promotes greater investment in various sustainable land-use practices that can strengthen local resilience to land degradation and climate change in participating Sahelian and Saharan countries, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. Bold action and investments in sustainable land and water management SLWM are crucial to secure multi-functional landscapes that deliver multiple benefits.
Economically valuable SLWM practices, such as farmer-managed natural regeneration in pockets of Niger , Mali and Burkina Faso , are currently being implemented. These practices are protecting valuable soil to boost food production, increasing water availability and quality, reducing climate and disaster risks, storing carbon, bringing land back into production, and enabling job-creating natural-resource based enterprises and livelihoods.
These actions are also part of the broader Bank-UN coordinated engagement in the Sahel. As of October 21, , projects in six countries have been approved by the Bank Board, and six additional projects are in advanced stages of preparation.
SAWAP is reinforced by a regional hub project to facilitate south-south cooperation on knowledge and operational services among the country projects and the broader Great Green Wall partnership. Each organization delivers specialty services to the SAWAP portfolio to enhance quality and promote regional integration. Market-creation enabling public policies, decentralized governance structure guaranteeing local community ownership, efficient and effective monitoring and clear land tenure rights arguably all play a critical role of favouring investments into products of the Sahel.
Private-sector players can harness three opportunities now to increase both the supply and demand for investable projects:. Investment through carbon finance. The Great Green Wall has a soil carbon sequestration potential of million tonnes by With companies around the world stepping up their climate commitments, demand for high-integrity carbon offsetting, particularly for nature-based solutions such as agroforestry, are surging.
New standards for measuring soil carbon are allowing the carbon certification of improved agricultural land management, which can contribute to scaling up the current flow of carbon finance into climate-smart agriculture in the Sahel. Scale innovative investment funds and accelerator programs for agroforestry SMEs. The challenge is even higher for ecopreneurs seeking to deliver social and environmental returns alongside financial returns, operating in an often poorly understood region such as the Sahel.
Over the past decade, a number of funds have emerged that seek to fill that gap faced by ecopreneurs in the Sahel. Further scaling such vehicles will allow for pooling of various types of private sector finance and help overcome transaction costs linked to investment in individual projects.
Support and empower an ecopreneurship movement. For such new investment vehicles to be able to deploy funds at scale into the Sahel, the region needs many more investable restoration projects to emerge.
While traditional project-based technical assistance plays a key role, so does the inspiration and empowerment of a whole generation of youth leaders to become ecopreneurs and join the restoration movement.
The destruction of forests creates almost as much greenhouse gas emissions as global road travel, and yet it continues at an alarming rate. In , we brought together more than partners working in Latin America, West Africa, Central Africa and South-East Asia — to establish the Tropical Forest Alliance : a global public-private partnership to facilitate investment in systemic change.
The Alliance, made up of businesses, governments, civil society, indigenous people, communities and international organizations, helps producers, traders and buyers of commodities often blamed for causing deforestation to achieve deforestation-free supply chains. The Commodities and Forests Agenda , summarizes the areas in which the most urgent action is needed to eliminate deforestation from global agricultural supply chains.
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