Scaling Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA)

Scaling Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA)

Environmental and Social Management Framework

Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 136

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) for the FAO-led GCF funding proposal, Scaling Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA), serves to address programme activities that may present environmental, social, and climate risks. By screening these activities against FAO’s Framework for Environmental and Social Management (FESM) and the Green Climate Fund’s Environmental & Social Standards (ESS), the ESMF ensures comprehensive risk management.

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Project
Renforcement de la résilience de la Grande Muraille Verte d’Afrique (SURAGGWA)
Cadre de gestion environnementale et sociale
2025

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Le cadre de gestion environnementale et sociale (ESMF) pour la proposition de financement du GCF dirigée par la FAO, Renforcement de la résilience de la Grande Muraille Verte d’Afrique (SURAGGWA), sert à examiner les activités du programme afin de les comparer au Cadre de gestion environnementale et sociale (FESM) de la FAO et aux normes environnementales et sociales (ESS) du Fonds vert pour le climat, garantissant ainsi une gestion complète des risques.
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Support to the implementation of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI)
International Workshop. Konya, Turkey, 28-31 May 2012
2012

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Great Green Wall - Action Against Desertification initiative to boost small-scale farming in Africa 2019

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Desertification, land degradation and drought are grave challenges facing Africa’s drylands, aggravating the issues of hunger, poverty, unemployment, forced migration and conflict. Climate change is increasing the risk of extreme weather events and all these factors have a far-reaching adverse impact on human health, physical infrastructure, natural resources and national and global security. The Great Green Wall initiative is Africa’s ambitious response. Launched in 2007, it has rallied more than 20 African countries, international organizations, research institutes, civil society and grassroots organizations to transform the lives of millions of people by creating a mosaic of green and productive landscapes across North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. FAO, a long-standing partner of the Great Green Wall initiative, is playing a key role through the Action Against Desertification initiative, launched in 2014. This initiative has paved the way for large-scale restoration of small-scale farming and aims to make degraded land productive again and improve the livelihoods of rural communities in less than five years. To scale up efforts and make a lasting impact, more investment is needed.