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Support to the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) for an effective change of narrative in the Sahel region - TCP/SFW/3907

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Year of publication 2025

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 11

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

Category Programme / project report

Synopsis (short abstract) The Sahel region is a global public good, a land of promise and opportunities. Noting its geostrategic positioning, coupled with its enormous economic and natural potential, it is imperative that working with the people of the Sahel on issues of development, peace and achieving sustainable progress become a major priority for all actors in the region. These include the United Nations (UN) system, its partners, including donors and development finance institutions, regional structures within the Sahel and across Africa, governments at the central and local levels, academia, and civil society groups. This urgent vision to transform the untapped potential of the Sahel to benefit Sahelians can only be achieved through the collective endeavors of all actors. However, since 2012, the Sahel region has been confronted with a chronic security crisis that intertwines political, cultural, development and stability issues in vast cross-border areas, whose status is perceived differently by states and populations (security problems versus concern for fluidity exchanges). Added to this is the fact that the interweaving of several conflict dynamics (antagonisms linked to modes of access to natural and productive resources and security crisis resulting from sociopolitical instability) results, among other things, in the interference of non-state armed groups (NSAG) in social relations. It is in this context that the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) was developed in 2013, based on Security Council resolution 2056, in response to the Malian crisis. Since taking office in January 2021, the Special Coordinator and his Office have realized achievements across several domains, in close cooperation and coordination with UN entities on the ground.

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