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The World Bank’s goals are to eradicate extreme poverty, and boost shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. On the African continent, poverty reduction, economic development, and sustainability are deeply intertwined and dependent on the management of natural resources—such as land, water, forest, aquatic resources, and biodiversity—which provide the basis for livelihoods and economic sectors…

Desertification and land degradation are a threat to the livelihoods of millions of poor people. The management of drylands and restoration of degraded lands represents an opportunity to increase productivity and improve incomes while enhancing resilience to climate change. Today, the world's deforested, dry, and degraded lands are expanding due to natural factors as well as to…

Productive land is a critical natural asset for rural communities in developing nations, providing them with a wide range of ecosystem resources, such as water, fertile soils, plant and genetic diversity – on which they depend daily for survival. For many communities, the land is also an integral part of their cultural identity, helping to maintain social cohesion and stability, in addition to…

As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the launching of the Fund’s operations, the Fund has established a clear niche within the global climate finance landscape.In funding concrete, localized and scalable projects to the most vulnerable communities while building national capacities to adapt to climate change through its pioneering Direct Access modality, the Fund continues to respond…

The effects of climate change will increasingly shape our security in the coming years. Our physical environment is now in a state of flux, posing significant challenges to how societies function. This may have serious economic, social and political consequences for entire regions. Countries with varied adaptation capacities will be able to handle the impacts in different ways, while many…

The Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) is one of the nine stakeholder groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2009 and granted full constituency status in 2011, the WGC consists of 27 women’s and environmental civil society organizations, who are working together to ensure that women’s voices are heard and their rights prioritized in the fght…