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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…

This report has three main sections. In Water, migration and how they are interlinked we raise an issue that is central to the ongoing migration crisis in the Middle East and Europe. Some have claimed that drought is part of the underlying cause of the Syrian conflict and the subsequent hunger and migration. At a time when we are witnessing some of the largest refugee flows…

The humanitarian impact of the ongoing El Niño episode is deeply alarming, already affecting 60 million people. Projections indicate the situation in 2016 will not improve—hunger and suffering will increase for millions of vulnerable people, and food insecurity is projected to worsen through to at least the end of the year. In the face of such a critical threat to the lives and livelihoods of…

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…