Plan of action for the implementation of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative. Draft for the submission to the AU Executive Council

Abstract

Contrary to what the name may suggest, the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative is not about creating a belt of forest from east to west across Africa, though the issue of increasing vegetation cover will receive high attention. It consists of a set of integrated interventions addressing multi-sectoral issues that affect the lives of the people in the Sahel and Sahara areas of Africa. These interventions, which are multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional, cut across a wide range of aspects including: land, water and forest resource management; soil conservation; pastoral development; sustainable agricultural production as well as gender and youth mainstreaming into development.