Multinational - Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme

This intervention concerns the Africa Integrated Climate Risk Management Programme: Building the Resilience of Smallholder Farmers to Climate Change Impacts in Seven Sahelian Countries of the Great Green Wall. It aims to increase resilience and enhance the livelihoods and food and water security of smallholder farmers and rural communities through integrated climate risk management of natural resources (water, soil, ecosystems) in seven countries of the Green Great Wall (GGW). The project also seeks to enable these countries to adopt low emission, climate resilient pathways for agricultural development by promoting, upgrading and scaling up risk management measures in agriculture while delivering various adaptation and mitigation co-benefits, including the avoidance of 21 466 499 Tonnes of Carbon Equivalent8 (tCO2q) GHG emissions. To achieve the expected outcome, the programme is divided into three mutually reinforcing and interlinked components that contribute to the following three outcomes (1) strengthened climate weather information services to support decision making and planning in relation to agroforestry, livestock raising, agricultural insurance products and services and capacity development for farmers, government, and the private sector; (2) strengthened climate resilient agroforestry and pastoral value chains, powered by reliable and affordable renewable energy sources and (3) reduced obstacles (financial market products and services/high premiums) to access to agricultural insurance for governments and smallholder farmers to enhance resilience building.