Zoundwéogo

Passoré

Cascades

Kompienga

Banwa

Poni

Centre

Koulpélogo

Bazèga

Séno

Centre-Est

Kossi

Bougouriba

Sissili

Centre-Nord

Kouritenga

Boulgou

Sanmatenga

Centre-Ouest

Kourwéogo

Boulkiemdé

Oudalan

Sanguié

Centre-Sud

Léraba

Comoé

Komondjari

Soum

Loroum

Ganzourgou

Sourou

Hauts-Bassins

Mouhoun

Gnagna

Tapoa

Nord

Namentenga

Gourma

Plateau-Central

Nahouri

Houet

Yagha

Sahel

Nayala

Ioba

Yatenga

Sud-Ouest

Noumbiel

Kadiogo

Ziro

Balé

Oubritenga

Kénédougou

Zondoma

Boucle du Mouhoun

Burkina Faso

8% of population (mostly in rural communities) supplied by solar energy by 2020

1,319 schools (out of 17,338) supplied by solar energy by 2020

SURAGGWA’s objective is to enhance ecological and climate resilience across Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal, while substantially increasing carbon sequestration through landscape restoration.

The Sahelian countries within the Great Green Wall (GGW) region are among the poorest and most vulnerable to climate change. Their economies largely depend on agriculture, livestock, and forestry, with over 70 per cent of rural communities reliant on rainfed agriculture. Climate change further exacerbates ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and the vulnerability of agro-silvopastoral landscapes, threatening food security and the sustainability of local livelihoods.

The programme will restore degraded agro-silvo-pastoral landscapes to build climate resilience and mitigation capacities, develop climate-resilient, low-emission Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) value chains to enhance market access and financial inclusion for vulnerable communities, and strengthen GGW institutions to improve coordination, monitoring, resource mobilisation, and knowledge management

The programme supports the African Union-led Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative by enhancing ecological and climate resilience. It contributes to the GGW goals of restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land, creating 10 million new jobs and sequestering 250 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030 through large-scale land restoration efforts.

<p>Burkina Faso's Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan for aims to promote climate adaptation in the long term, with a focus on interventions for the 2024-2026 period, hoping to help achieve a 50% rural poverty rate and a climate change adaptation index (ND-GAIN) of 38.85 by 2028, compared to 37.6 in 2021. The action plan spans a range of sectors, including promotion of solar energy to increase grid security, increasing water storage capacity, urban stormwater drainage improvements, increasing forest cover to prevent land degradation, and improving availability of research outputs to stakeholders.</p>

<p>Burkina Faso National Adaptation Plan. NAP2</p>

Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented opportunities and challenges for agricultural transformation, driven by the demands of a rapidly growing population and a changing climate. The effects of climate change are already severe in Africa, exacerbating the continent’s food insecurity and climate vulnerability challenges. 

To address these challenges, RE-GAIN aims to strengthen smallholder farmers' climate resilience and adaptive capacity by promoting the wide-scale adoption of food loss reduction solutions (FL-RS). This involves engaging both the demand and supply sides, with a strong emphasis on market creation and enhancement and active participation from the private sector.

Key activities will include increasing the demand for and encouraging the adoption of FL-RS by farmers in seven countries (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia), enhancing the supply and affordability of FL-RS, and fostering an enabling environment for its large-scale adoption.

As GCF’s first project targeting food loss reduction, this initiative holds significant potential for transformative change in Africa. It was brought under the Project-Specific Assessment Approach (PSAA), an initiative to streamline and broaden access to GCF finance for new partners, countries, and technologies.

GCF's Project Preparation Facility (PPF) support was deployed to help develop the project.

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8% of population (mostly in rural communities) supplied by solar energy by 2020

1,319 schools (out of 17,338) supplied by solar energy by 2020

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