About the Great Green Wall (GGW)

The Great Green Wall (GGW) is a lighthouse African-led initiative to re-green the Sahel and the Horn of Africa from Senegal to Djibouti. The GGW has transformed into a comprehensive rural development and sustainable land management initiative, aiming to transform the lives of populations within its area by supporting a mosaic of green and productive landscapes. It leverages a diversity of projects, with the potential to contribute to several EU and African objectives: food security, sustainable agri-food systems, water, addressing desertification, climate change, biodiversity loss, sustainable energy, decent job creation, and, more broadly, resilience, stability and sustainable and inclusive development. The EU has pledged more than EUR 700M/year to support the GGW, primarily through its country programmes. These are to be complemented and supported by a soft regional Action, described hereunder. The EU’s support to the Great Green Wall holds the status of a ‘Flagship’ under the AU-EU Global Gateway Investment Package.

The Great Green Wall (UNCCD)

The Great Green Wall Initiative is an UNCCD flagship initiative. To learn more, visit the UNCCD website.

The Pan-African Agency of the GGW

While the African Union oversees the political aspects of the GGW Initiative, the Pan African Agency for the Great Green Wall (PAGGW) established in 2010 is responsible for the coordination and monitoring the implementation of GGW and for the mobilization of necessary resources in the member Countries. The 9 Regional Structural Programmes (RSP) coordinated by PAGGW are structured around the 5 Major Strategic Axes of the GGW Initiative. These are implemented in all the GGW countries and tailored to each country’s specific need with common objective of restoration of degraded land, economic development, increasing adaptation and resilience to climate change and actions against food insecurity and migration.