📋 Tender Overview
Contract partner: UNCCD - United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - Secretariat
Country: Africa, regional/cross-country Funding amount: € 2.850.000,00 Project start: 01.11.2024 End: 31.10.2027
SHORT DESCRIPTION:
Overall goal
Enhanced effectiveness in implementing integrated transboundary land restoration, ecosystem protection, land and water resource management throughout the Great Green Wall (GGW) region’s widened scope, with institutional and strategic support and momentum
Expected results
1. Planning, Coordination, and Integration mechanisms at the Regional National, Communal and Community levels of the GGW Initiative are strengthened
2. The GGW Initiative's comprehensive knowledge management system is independently used and systematically managed by the Pan-African Agency of the GGW and national agencies for the GGW to report on funding and progress, including on transboundary water action
3. The GGW Initiative attracts investments and support towards upscaling projects for women’s empowerment, feeding into the Sahel Land and Water Framework
Target group / Beneficiaries
The project will aim to provide direct benefits to approximately 2,242 persons including personnel of the National Agencies for the GGW, members of the national coalitions for the GGW, scale-up project beneficiaries and young female and male agribusiness entrepreneurs promoting the GGW approach. The initiative will be implemented in eleven countries in the Sahel Region: Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sudan, with newcoming observers: Cote d'Ivoire, The Gambia, and Somalia.
Activities
The initiative is set to provide strategic, institutional, and technical support to sustain and scale up the GGW initiative's scope, ensuring comprehensive knowledge management and mobilizing catalytic investments.
Outcome 1 related activities will provide support to the chairmanship and constitution of the national coalitions; convene and coordinate the national coalitions; provide technical assistance to the national coalitions; organise cross-country learning exchanges; support task force management for the national coalitions; consult with transboundary River Basin Organizations to deliver regional transboundary water action plans; convene the regional coordination mechanism; convene and coordinate transboundary water resources management taskforce within the GGW.
Outcome 2 related activities will work to update the GGW Observatory to address the needs of the national agencies; carry out knowledge management workshops for GGW stakeholders; undertake regional consultations with partners for collaborative platform optimization; carry out country consultations on needs and troubleshooting; Develop online tutorials for the GGW observatory members; identify and consult water resources management key stakeholders to examine interoperability synergies with the GGW Observatory; include transboundary wa
