Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA)
Knowledge 4 Action
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The Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) aims to address a number of issues identified in the Great Green Wall (GGW) evaluation conducted in 2020. Launched in 2023, the programme is led by CIFOR-ICRAF and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
K4GGWA will empower key GGW stakeholders to enhance their knowledge management and sharing mechanisms, develop learning and data platforms, foster dialogue at national and regional levels, and fund innovations. It also aims to strengthen policies and institutions and enhance the capacities of national and regional GGW agencies, and will act as a crucial regional backbone to the many GGW-relevant European Union projects funded at national level.
K4GGWA is specifically designed to:
- strengthen the knowledge base to inform GGW action;
- address drivers of land degradation, including socioeconomic (e.g., gender, business, security) and ecological factors;
- improve GGW-relevant interventions and monitoring of key actors’ activities;
- scale sustainable land management approaches adapted to both pastoral and cropping systems (including communal and state lands) that fit local contexts;
- develop the right enabling environment by tackling governance issues and policy environments that build on the use of evidence to develop and implement effective interventions at scale.
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Intended impact
K4GGWA will enable sustainable land management and livelihoods in support of the Great Green Wall initiative as well as the acceleration of progress towards its objectives.
Strategic objectives
Enhanced uptake and effectiveness of sustainable land management, land restoration and integrated landscape management practices within the broader Great Green Wall area – focusing on improving regional, national and subnational actors’ capacities to share lessons learned, co-develop and access learning products, and engage stakeholders in practice-based learning trajectories
Improved land health and vegetation monitoring and intervention targeting within the broader Great Green Wall area – focusing primarily on the development and application of frameworks/tools for monitoring changes in land health (including land degradation status and vegetation compositions) that result from land restoration interventions implemented under the GGW more effectively
Enhanced policy and institutional enabling environment for sustainable management and livelihoods within the broader Great Green Wall area – addressing gaps highlighted in the GGW status report from 2020, with a particular emphasis on the need to improve its institutional, governance, advocacy and awareness dimensions.
Knowledge on the map
K4GGWA will focus primarily on the 11 member countries of the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW): Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Where possible and appropriate, this action will also offer support to an additional set of seven countries implementing GGW-related activities with EU support: Cameroon, Ghana, Benin, Cape Verde, The Gambia, South Sudan and Somalia.
K4GGWA’s CIFOR-ICRAF team
Mieke Bourne
Project Manager;
Co-Lead for Strategic Objective 3 and oversight for Strategic Objective 1
Co-Lead for Strategic Objective 3 and oversight for Strategic Objective 1
Kimberly Merten
Lead for Digital Learning Campus
Mawa Karambiri
Co-Lead for Strategic Objective 3
FAO will lead activities under each objective.
Alignment
K4GGWA will work with a range of relevant regional stakeholders, including the African Union Commission, Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall (PAGGW), national and subnational governments, non-governmental and civil society organizations, the private sector and European Union delegations.
K4GGWA is aligned with the EU-AU Global Gateway Investment Package (GGIP) Great Green Wall Flagship. K4GGWA is also aligned to the African Union’s Agenda 2063, and supports partner countries in achieving their ‘Land Degradation Neutrality’ targets under the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), as well as commitments made under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD). It will respond to priorities identified by regional institutions and their member countries in the Great Green Wall Accelerator framework and its 10-Year Priority Investment Plan. It will also connect to other relevant initiatives, such as the African Union-led African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100).
K4GGWA will also contribute to a wide array of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG 1, 2, 5, 7, 13, 15 and 17.
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