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Passoré

Gourma

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Poni

Houet

Centre-Est

Séno

Ioba

Centre-Nord

Sissili

Kadiogo

Centre-Ouest

Sanmatenga

Kénédougou

Centre-Sud

Sanguié

Komondjari

Soum

Kompienga

Hauts-Bassins

Sourou

Koulpélogo

Nord

Tapoa

Kossi

Plateau-Central

Kouritenga

Sahel

Yagha

Kourwéogo

Sud-Ouest

Yatenga

Léraba

Balé

Ziro

Loroum

Zondoma

Mouhoun

Banwa

Zoundwéogo

Namentenga

Bazèga

Nahouri

Bougouriba

Nayala

Boulgou

Noumbiel

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Oubritenga

Comoé

Oudalan

Ganzourgou

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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

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<p>Burkina Faso Nationally Determined Contribution. NDC3.0</p>

Climate change has hit Burkina Faso’s agriculture sector in recent years, as the country relies heavily on rainfed farming for staple crops like millet, sorghum, and maize. Rising temperatures, delayed rainy seasons, erratic rainfall, frequent droughts and floods have reduced yields and shortened growing cycles. With over 80 per cent of the population dependent on agriculture, these climate stresses threaten food security, household incomes, and rural livelihoods. The Guiriko region of western Burkina Faso will likely face rising temperatures, more frequent and intense rainfall and flooding, and longer and harsher droughts.

To address these challenges, this project will enhance the resilience of rural producers in Guiriko through a sustainable land management approach, building on successful initiatives previously implemented in the country. By strengthening the region's institutional, financial and knowledge systems, producers will have greater access to affordable finance and climate information services, and local governments will find it easier to integrate adaptation into long-term development plans. Direct field-level interventions will empower local producers to use sustainable agricultural, livestock, forestry and water management practices, and by restoring and protecting ecosystems, Guiriko will be reinforced to face future climate risks.

The project will catalyse a paradigm shift toward long-term, resilient, and sustainable land management by improving local regulatory frameworks, expanding access to climate finance, and fostering knowledge sharing.

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>

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

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