The Great Green Wall for the Sahara and the Sahel Initiative (GGWI) was launched by the African Union in 2007 to build a sustainable future across the vast Sahel region. By 2030, the initiative aims to restore 100 million hectares of degraded land, preserve fertile land for agriculture and strengthen resilience to climate change.

To realise it’s ambitions, however, it must be vigilant about good governance to ensure that resources are used efficiently, transparently and accountably and that policies and projects are designed to benefit the people and environment it should serve. Our partner Transparency International analyses the GGWI in three critical areas: transparency, participation, and accountability and integrity. The report, supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation, focuses on the Pan African Agency of the Great Green Wall and its 11 member states, with a particular focus on Niger and Senegal.

This policy paper provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the challenges and potential policy options concerning climate-related migration. Climate change will have a significant impact on migration movements at all levels, including national, regional, and international level. In many cases, they are already becoming apparent. While most migration movements affected by climate change will occur within national borders, the international system is inadequately prepared for the changes and migration movements that are to come. Migration is an effective means of adapting to climate change. Yet, political measures are necessary to support the positive impacts and opportunities of climate-related mobility while mitigating any negative consequences. The authors of this publication present concrete policy options in this context.

This report presents the findings of a study conducted in Kenya and Tanzania. It consolidates communities’ and stakeholders’ views on and perceptions of structural barriers that hinder communities’ effective participation in international debates on sustainable land use and rights and climate adaptation and hence resilience.
The study is part of a project with Power Shift Africa on effective African leadership in sustainable land use and rights for climate resilience.

This policy brief presents the key findings of a study supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and conducted by Power Shift
Africa in Kenya and Tanzania on structural barriers that hinder communities’ effective participation in key adaptation and resilience
discourses at regional and international level.