Yatenga

Oudalan

Banwa

Kossi

Poni

Boucle du Mouhoun

Cascades

Séno

Kompienga

Centre

Koulpélogo

Zoundwéogo

Centre-Est

Bougouriba

Sanmatenga

Comoé

Kouritenga

Centre-Nord

Sissili

Boulkiemdé

Sanguié

Kourwéogo

Centre-Ouest

Boulgou

Soum

Léraba

Mouhoun

Zondoma

Hauts-Bassins

Houet

Sourou

Ganzourgou

Loroum

Centre-Sud

Tapoa

Nord

Gnagna

Namentenga

Sahel

Nahouri

Gourma

Noumbiel

Ioba

Nayala

Yagha

Plateau-Central

Balé

Kénédougou

Passoré

Ziro

Kadiogo

Oubritenga

Sud-Ouest

Bazèga

Komondjari

Burkina Faso

SURAGGWA’s objective is to enhance ecological and climate resilience across Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal, while substantially increasing carbon sequestration through landscape restoration.

The Sahelian countries within the Great Green Wall (GGW) region are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change. Their economies largely depend on agriculture, livestock, and forestry, with over 70 per cent of rural communities reliant on rainfed agriculture. Climate change further exacerbates ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and the vulnerability of agro-silvopastoral landscapes, threatening food security and the sustainability of local livelihoods.

The programme will restore degraded agro-silvo-pastoral landscapes to build climate resilience and mitigation capacities, develop climate-resilient, low-emission Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) value chains to enhance market access and financial inclusion for vulnerable communities, and strengthen GGW institutions to improve coordination, monitoring, resource mobilisation, and knowledge management

The programme supports the African Union-led Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative by enhancing ecological and climate resilience. It contributes to the GGW goals of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land, creating 10 million new jobs and sequestering 250 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 through large-scale land restoration efforts.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges for agricultural transformation, driven by the demands of a rapidly growing population and a changing climate. The effects of climate change are already severe in Africa, exacerbating the continent’s food insecurity and climate vulnerability challenges. 

To address these challenges, RE-GAIN aims to strengthen smallholder farmers' climate resilience and adaptive capacity by promoting the wide-scale adoption of food loss reduction solutions (FL-RS). This involves engaging both the demand and supply sides, with a strong emphasis on market creation and enhancement and active participation from the private sector.

Key activities will include increasing the demand for and encouraging the adoption of FL-RS by farmers in seven countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia), enhancing the supply and affordability of FL-RS, and fostering an enabling environment for its large-scale adoption.

As GCF’s first project targeting food loss reduction, this initiative holds significant potential for transformative change in Africa. It was brought under the Project-Specific Assessment Approach (PSAA), an initiative to streamline and broaden access to GCF finance for new partners, countries, and technologies.

GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF) support was deployed to help develop the project.

Local CSOs and CBOs in landscapes-seascapes around the world access grant financing and technical assistance, including capacity development and knowledge sharing to maintain and enhance their socio-ecological resilience, well-being and socio-economic conditions for global environmental benefits.

West Africa is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, with crippling agricultural losses, recurrent food crises, water scarcity and extreme flooding, and environmental degradation from multiple climate hazards. Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, and Niger face growing vulnerability due to increasing variability in rainfall patterns, which lead to extreme weather events, resulting in intensifying food and livelihood insecurity, and economic and governance instability.

The project aims to enhance adaptive capacities and knowledge and to promote the adoption of climate-responsive practices and innovative financing mechanisms among local governments, communities and enterprises.  It will promote the integration of climate resilience into local governments’ annual planning and budgetary cycles; build the capacity of local governments, communities and enterprises to develop and implement climate change adaptation plans; and support the development of blended financing facilities for local enterprises.

The project will support at least 85 local government jurisdictions across the four countries in addressing the key drivers of their vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change.

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