To enhance capability of resource users to mainstream SLM in development practice and policy at local and national levels for the mutual benefits of local livelihoods and global environment.

To reduce land degradation in the Shire River Basin through improved institutional, policy and Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes

The Project Global Environment Objective is to increase the use of sustainable land and water management (SLWM) practices in the targeted production systems.

Combat desertification, protect the ecosystem functions and productivity, and improve the livelihoods of the rural poor in the oases of Mauritania

To protect the integrity of, and to improve the agro-sylvo-pastoral productivity of the micro-basin ecosystems in the Gouré and Maïné-Soroa provinces.

The blended operation is aimed at sustained poverty reduction and improved local governance through empowering communities and local governments, to improve natural resource and ecosystem management, and to raise levels of health, education, and food security, thereby stimulating economic growth. These goals will be achieved through local-level capacity-building efforts and implementation of demand-driven micro-projects.

: To overcome the causes and negative impacts of land degradation on the structure and functional integrity of the Maradi region’s ecosystem resources through addressing the barriers and bottlenecks to scaling up successful sustainable land management technologies

To improve the enabling environment for scaling up sustainable land management in participating communities.