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Our mission
Through this initiative, IUCN and local partners are helping national governments and local communities in Burkina Faso, Georgia, and Kenya to better understand drought and its management phases with a view to adopt appropriate nature-based solutions—particularly ecosystem restoration—that can help communities to prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate drought while also capturing climate, biodiversity, and socioeconomic co-benefits.
Donors
Partners
Classification
Region
Global
Organisation type
Other
Ecosystem types
- Farmlands
- Forests
- Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs
Hectares under restoration
100
ha
Funding Goal for 2030
$3,250,000.00
Restoration Goal for 2030
2,000
ha
Timeline
From
1 June 2020
Additional benefits
- Increases Health & Wellbeing
- Mitigates Climate Change
- Protects Freshwaters
- Reduces Disaster Risks
- Safeguards Biodiversity
- Supports Livelihoods
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To date, this initiative has:
- Mobilized over EUR 1.1 million to enable ecosystem restoration in local communities, capture ongoing challenges caused by drought in the project countries, and strengthen national drought strategies and risk management frameworks.
- Reached more than 170,000 beneficiaries across 3 countries, over half of whom were women.
- Put more than 100 hectares of land under restoration or improved management, with ambitions by community members to increase that figure by more than 20-fold in the future.
- Promoted knowledge exchange and lessons sharing while attempting to break silos between natural resource management agencies. For example, in Georgia, a capacity-building workshop was organized which brought together over 45 participants from civil society, grassroots organizations, and national government agencies.
- Highlighted the unique and often disproportionate effects of drought on women and girls, as well as solutions to increase gender equity in drought management.
- Included stakeholder participation from Indigenous peoples in Kenya and internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso, promoting a sense of community ownership over restoration activities and improving community understanding of the benefits of nature-based solutions (NbS).
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