Climate change is posing serious challenges to poverty eradication and economic development in Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s pastoral and agro-pastoral communities, as well as its smallholder farmers in the highlands, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. This exposure requires a concerted focus on adaptation and resilience building, as well as measures to reduce poverty.

Mali’s participation in the GGW initiative falls within the continued implementation of its National Plan for the Fight Against Desertification (PLNCD), adopted in October 1985. The Mali government created a Management Unit of the Great Green Wall (UGMV) in March 2016. The UGMV was hosted by the Forestry Department. The UGMV was later transformed into the National Agency of the Great Green Wall (ANGMV-Mali) by the government in 2019 (Traoré et al, 2021).

 Analysis of policies relevant to the Great Green Wall Initiative in Senegal.

The National Office of the Great Green Wall (NOGGW) was created in 2016 by Council of Ministers Decree No 36 and was activated in July 2021 in accordance with Ministerial Decree No 6, declared by the Minister of Agriculture and Forests. These actions were line with the recommendations of multiple evaluations that were carried out in which it was deemed necessary to strengthen the capacities of the institutional and organizational structures of the Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative and GGW national structures of the participating countries.

This work was carried out with support from the CGIAR Initiative on Climate Resilience, ClimBeR. We would like to thank the Belgium Federal Public Services (FPS) Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation and all funders who supported this research through their contributions to the CGIAR Trust Fund. 

• The Great Green Wall (GGW) is focused on land restoration through tree planting and natural regeneration across 8,000km of the Sahel.
• Impacts to-date include land restoration on 4m hectares of the official target zone and an additional 14m ha across the target region. USD 90m in revenue has also been generated.
• The GGW has the potential to contribute to global goals related to climate mitigation, ecological resilience, improved human health and wellbeing, and equity and empowerment.