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1. This Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) evaluation of the GEF Civil Society Organization (CSO) Network responds to a request from the GEF Council at its 47th meeting in October, 2014. Technical Notes and Annexes to the evaluation are included in the Information Document GEF/ME/C.50/Inf.02. 2. The evaluation addresses the two key evaluation questions included in the Approach Paper (Annex…

Meeting the challenge of industrialization will need new thinking both in Africa and among its development partners. Put bluntly, Africa will not succeed in industrializing if the conventional wisdom offered by the international aid community to African governments continues to define their public policies to spur industrial development. One of the unifying themes in the eight SSA country case…

Recognising that drought resilience is imperative to achieving LDN, and that due to drought and desertification, arable land is being lost and that Africa is the most impacted continent. As part of the international community, African countries endorsed LDN in October 2015, and committed to strive to halt desertification and restore degraded land by 2030. In this regard, we the African countries…

The publication presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in African agriculture. It brings together analyses of a unique mix of data sources and evaluations of public policies and development projects to recommend ways to increase agricultural productivity in Africa. The good news is that agricultural productivity in Africa increased at a moderate…

This background report investigates two key challenges in scaling up investments in ecosystem restoration (ESR) — financing and coordination — and provides recommendations on how they might be addressed. Scaling up ESR investments features a significant increase in inputs, labour and the capacity for restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems and their services, meaning ESR projects become…

Ecosystem restoration has the potential to combine the global policy agendas of biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and food security Restoration of degraded ecosystems poses an opportunity to reverse the process of land degradation by undertaking mosaic, wide-scale or landscape scale efforts to re-establish the natural state (ecological restoration) and regain productivity …