View source for Great Green Wall for Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI)

{{Climate initiative
|Name of initiative=Great Green Wall for Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI)
|LPAA initiative=Yes
|NAZCA Initiative=Yes
|Website address=http://www.greatgreenwall.org
|Starting year=2008
|Secretariat=African Union Headquarters, PO. Box 3243, Roosvelt Street (Old Airport Area), W21K19, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
|Organisational structure=The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) is a pan-African programme launched in 2008 by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), and African Union (AU). Its goal is to reverse land degradation and desertification in the Sahel and Sahara, boost food security and support local communities to adapt to climate change.
|Geographical coverage=Africa
|Name of lead organisation=African Union (AU)
|Type of lead organisation=United Nations or Specialised agency
|Location/Nationality of lead organisation=Ethiopia
|LPAA Theme Transport=No
|LPAA Theme Agriculture=No
|LPAA Theme Forestry=Yes
|LPAA Theme Business=No
|LPAA Theme Financial institutions=No
|LPAA Theme Buildings=No
|LPAA Theme Industry=No
|LPAA Theme Waste=No
|LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=No
|LPAA Theme Short Term Pollutants=No
|LPAA Theme International maritime transport=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Supply=No
|LPAA Theme Fluorinated gases=No
|LPAA Theme Energy efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Renewable energy=No
|LPAA Theme Supply chain emission reductions=No
|LPAA Theme Adaptation=Yes
|LPAA Theme Other=No
|LPAA Theme Resilience=Yes
|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
|LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
|Description=The objective of the initiative is to grow an 8,000km-long line of trees and plants across the entire Sahel, from the Atlantic coast of Senegal to the east coast of Djibouti – halting desertification and creating a huge swathe of green across the entire African continent, by 12 African nations.
|Goals=By 2030, the expectation of the new phase of the initiative is to restore 50 million hectares of land; sequester 250 million tons of carbon; support 300 million people in communities across the Sahel; and provide access for 10 million smallholder farmers to climate resilient agricultural technologies.
|Activities=To fulfill the vision of the GGW, the UNCCD is proposing this new initiative to help reach out to every GGW community and make sure that no community or country is left behind. This will require a mass engagement of local communities under the Great Green Wall.
The first GGWSSI conference was held 2-7 May 2016 in Dakar.
A Regional Harmonizes Strategy has been developed, and National Strategy Plans made in 2014 can be downloaded for Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gambia, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
|Participants national actors names=BURKINA FASO, CAMEROON, CHAD, DJIBOUTI, ERITREA, ETHIOPIA, GHANA, MALI, MAURITANIA, NIGER,
NIGERIA, SENEGAL, SUDAN, ALGERIA, BENIN, CAPE VERDE, EGYPT, GAMBIA, LIBYA, SOMALIA, TUNISIA.
|Participants national actors number=21
|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=3
|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=FAO (Italy), WB (USA), EU (Belgium).
|Number of members={{Number of members
|Number of members year=2018
|Number of members value=24
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|Have only national states as participators=No
|SDGS=E_SDG_goals_icons-individual-rgb-15.png
|Indicators information={{Indicators information
|Indicator=Capacity building;Training and education;
}}{{Indicators information
|Indicator=Technical dialogue;Knowledge dissemination and exchange;
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