Regreening Africa Summit

Regreening Africa was launched in 2017 to help reverse degradation on one million hectares of land across eight countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This summit will reflect on five years of achievements, lessons and the way forward for the project, and restoration a wider scale on the continent.

Simultaneous French-English translation available.

Event website

Agenda

Welcome and event outline

Facilitator

Marie Parramon-Gurney

CEO and Chief Transformative Impact Officer, SKULTCHA

Opening remarks

Speaker

Hans Christian Stausboll

Acting Director, European Commission Africa

A local perspective on the value of restoring livelihoods through landscapes

Speaker

Adrian Leitoro

Nature and People as One (NaPO)

From farm polygon to continent: The great big zoom-out show

Issoufou M.Kandeg, a farmer in Niger (Video)

Speakers

Tor-Gunnar Vågen

Senior Scientist and head of the Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab (SPACIAL), CIFOR-ICRAF

Hamed Tchibozo

Regreening Africa Project Coordinator, World Vision Niger

Djalal Arinloye

Country Representative, Benin

Mawa Karambiri

Policy and technical engagement specialist for the Sahel, CIFOR-ICRAF

Mieke Bourne

Programme Manager, Regreening Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF

Science, practice, and policy

Panelists

Tor-Gunnar Vågen

Senior Scientist and head of the Spatial Data Science and Applied Learning Lab (SPACIAL), CIFOR-ICRAF

Mawa Karambiri

Policy and technical engagement specialist for the Sahel, CIFOR-ICRAF

Djalal Arinloye

Country Representative, Benin

Leigh Winowiecki

Global research leader: soil and land health, CIFOR-ICRAF
Co-lead,CA4SH

Hilda Kegode

Impact Assessment and Acceleration (IAA) Specialist, CIFOR-ICRAF

Moderator

Patrick Worms

Senior Science Policy Advisor, CIFOR-ICRAF

Short break: Fireside, video and Q&A

Facilitator

Marie Parramon-Gurney

CEO and Chief Transformative Impact Officer, SKULTCHA

The implications of Regreening Africa’s lessons and achievements for restoration in Africa and globally

Panelists

Louise Baker

Global Mechanism Managing Director, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)

Susan Chomba

Director of Vital Landscapes
WRI Africa

Pauline Okumu

International Representative, World Vision Rwanda

Mamadou Diakhité

Acting Head of the Environmental Sustainability Division and AFR100 Secretariat Manager, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD)

Christophe Besacier

Senior Forestry Officer – Coordinator Forest and Landscape Restoration

Martin Frick

Director, World Food Programme (WFP)

Lori Pearson

Senior Policy Advisor, Catholic Relief Services

Ravi Prabhu

Director Innovation, Investment and Impact, CIFOR-ICRAF

Key messages and the way forward

Speakers

Marie Parramon-Gurney

CEO and Chief Transformative Impact Officer, SKULTCHA

Mieke Bourne

Programme Manager, Regreening Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF

Where to from here

Speaker

Tony Rinaudo

Principal Natural Resources Advisor, World Vision Australia