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The Sahel and West Africa Program to Support the Great Green Wall Initiative Receives World Bank Green Team Award
World Bank recognizes partnership with GEF in continent-spanning program addressing land degradation and climate change adaptation in Sahel and West Africa
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 27, 2013 – The World Bank has awarded a team from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Bank the “Green Team Award” for work on the Sahel and West Africa Program in Support of the Great Green Wall Initiative. The program is part of the comprehensive effort to address land degradation and desertification across an environmentally fragile belt of sub-Saharan Africa.
What the GEF CEO thinks about the Great Green Wall
Monique Barbut, we are hearing a lot about the Green Wall. Can you explain the concept to us?
The Green Wall is an initiative spearheaded by African Heads of State to combat soil degradation in a zone spanning Senegal to Djibouti. The wall is a visual concept symbolizing the collective work we all have to do in order to combat environmental degradation, in particular desertification and the impoverishment of populations.
Congo Regional Consultation
Note Préparatoire et Agenda
Réunion régionale relative
au Programme FEM7 sur les Paysages Durables du Bassin du Congo
Jeudi 17 – Vendredi 18 Janvier 2019
Lieu : Hotel Radisson Okoume, Libreville, Gabon
Objectif de la réunion régionale