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West Africa: Promoting sustainable land management in migration-prone areas through innovative financing mechanisms
West Africa: Promoting sustainable land management in migration-prone areas through innovative financing mechanisms
The three-year project (2014 – 2016) provides support to West African countries, especially Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal, to:
- Integrate the SLM-migration nexus into their development and budgetary policies ;
- Increase economic opportunities and improve the investment climate for SLM in specific geographic areas subject to desertification and migration; and
- Disseminate best SLM practices in West Africa and their funding in pertinent international fora.
Partners: The main partners of the project are (i) ECOWAS and the Permanent Interstates Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS); (ii) the governments of the three countries involved; and (iii) the diaspora networks and migrant associations in the destination countries.
Implementing Partners: The Global Mechanism (GM) of the United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Donor: Italian Development Cooperation – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Project period: 2014 – 2016
Project countries: Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal
Expected outputs of project:
- Integrate the SLM-migration nexus into development and budgetary policies
- Increase economic opportunities and improve the investment climate for SLM in specific geographic areas subject to desertification and migration
- Disseminate best SLM practices in West Africa and their funding in pertinent international fora
Document: Flyer-SLM-Migration project
The Global Mechanism of the UNCCD
Sven Walter
Programme Officer, Liaison – Land, Security and Resilience
E-mail: SWalter@unccd.int
IOM Rome
Via Nomentana 62, 00161 Rome (Italy)
Barbara Bendandi, Policy Officer, Migration and Environment
Email: bbendandi@iom.int