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Communities Regreen Half year the Sahel report 2020 2 Half year report 2020 Content 04 Map of Sahel 26 Milestones Burkina Faso 06 Introduction 28 Results Burkina Faso 08 Niger 34 Senegal 10 Map Niger 36 Map Senegal 12 Milestones Niger 38 Milestones Senegal 14 Results Niger 40 Results Senegal 22 Burkina Faso 44 Evaluation and next steps 24 Map Burkina Faso 47 Colophon 3 4 Sahara Sahel NIGER SENEGAL BURKINA FASO 5 Sahel Icons Milestones Collaborations Preview Budget / Finance Specials Policy XOF Personal stories Region Market 6 Introduction Dear reader, 2020. What a ‘year’ this has been already, even REGREENING DURING COVID-19 though we are only halfway! We all started Many African countries, including Burkina Faso, this year with loads of good energy. We were Niger and Senegal, closed their international looking forward to evaluating the first phase of borders and areas around the big cities because of Communities Regreen the Sahel, to attending some the global pandemic. This meant that our partners very interesting international conferences and to could not leave their own region or city for months. continue working with increasingly better equipped As frustrating as this was, our partners kept finding and attuned teams. Fortunately, we had the ways to keep the work going. In fact, this crisis chance to attend and participate in two important pushed the whole consortium to think out of the international conferences on agroecology, box and to come up with creative ways both held in Senegal. At the strategic to keep doing what needed to be regional 3AO meeting (Alliance done. The time and means we for Agroecology in West invested in connecting with Africa), of which most of locally-rooted, community- our partners are members, based organisations and 31 organisations came building a large network together in Dakar to around them, turned successfully develop out to be well spent: it a joint strategy to enabled most partners support the transition to continue training to agroecology and activities, although with sustainable food systems limited numbers, and in West Africa. This outreach to communities, meeting was followed by even with the imposed the Senegalese Agroecology restrictions in place. days, where the Senegalese multi- stakeholder platform DyTAES, led by In Burkina Faso, despite the growing ENDA Pronat and IED Afrique, pushes for the violence and the difficulties that COVID-19 brought agroecological transition in Senegal. These days along, the team managed to quickly arrange resulted in that president Macky Sall received the ‘COVID-paperwork’ that was needed to go a recommendation letter to accelerate this back into the field and carry out support to local transition. After these inspiring conferences we organisations, conduct FMNR trainings and meet started planning our external evaluation, but then with local authorities, to finish just in time before COVID-19 shook the world… the start of the rainy season. In Niger, the team came up with new and strengthened partnerships with local radio stations, taking the opportunity to We all started this year with discuss the importance of trees and indigenous plants for traditional medicine and health: essential loads of good energy during a pandemic. The Niger team also had a Introduction 7 huge lobby success during the global pandemic: it managed to get an important Decree adopted by the state. More about this on page 9 of this report! In Senegal, the decision taken last year to add new local, community-based partner organisations to the consortium, especially in the very remote areas of Tambacounda, proved to be a great choice. Not just because local organisations adjust the approaches In fact, this crisis pushed the to FMNR and village committees to local needs, but also because Dakar was hermetically sealed for whole consortium to think out months, forcing the team to give online trainings of the box and to come up with through WhatsApp. creative ways to keep doing At Both ENDS we also had to adjust to this new situation. We have been working from home since what needed to be done. March 16th and since we did not travel we could not execute the evaluation as we had wanted and hoped. However, not all is doom and gloom. We are happy to have welcomed our new team member Stefan Schüller, who joined the team in January 2020 and is responsible for the international lobby and advocacy. We have also found ways to increase and improve communication with the teams via Zoom, Skype, WhatsApp and other means. We are happy and proud of the results and the progress the partners have made, despite all the currents difficulties, and we are grateful for everyone’s flexibility during the evaluation phase. We also see good things happening now that the rain started, and as Sayouba from APEDR (Yako, Burkina Faso) said: “le sorgho donne beaucoup d’espoir”. We hope you enjoy reading this report. Kind regards, also on behalf of all teams, Roos Nijpels and Fiona Dragstra Co-coordinators 8 Map ALGERIA NIGER MALI CHAD NIGERIA Region 9 Niger In Niger, most training and meeting activities had to focused on an awareness and advocacy campaign be suspended because of the COVID-19 restrictions on COVID-19 and the role of trees in human health and social-distancing barriers. Fortunately, partners and environment together with strong and wide- were able to carry out some activities such as the spread local radio stations. Moreover, even during training of new village committees and the geo- these strange times, the team in Niger’s endless referencing of fields under FMNR in the new sites. engagement with the Nigerien government resulted in Next to monitoring the activities in the different a decree that exclusively promotes FMNR throughout communities and the continuous engagement with Niger, officially signed and adopted by the State of national and local government authorities, the team Niger! 10 Map Niger Republic of Niger Intervention regions Legend Soucoucoutane DOB municipalities Dogonkiria non-DOB municipalities RNA = FMNR (ha) 9653 Dogonkiria Matankari 2764 Dankassari 2238 Soucoucoutane 1590 Matankari Dankassari 294 Kiéché Dogondoutchi Kiéché Programme DOB Ecology 11 Illéla Badaguichiri Tajaé Soucoucoutane Dogonkiria Birni N’Konni Tsarnaoua Matankari Alléla Bazaga Dankassari Dogondoutchi Legend Kiéché Heads of departments Project intervention zones Boundary of the municipalities Illéla Badaguichiri Tajaé Legend DOB municipalities non-DOB municipalities Birni N’Konni Tsarnaoua RNA = FMNR (ha) Alléla 5367 Alléla Bazaga 569 Tajaé 12 Milestones Niger Programme goal 1: A total area of 200,000 hectares divided over Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal has been regreened by Farmer-led Regreening by and for communities 3 YEAR RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS MILESTONE BASELINE 2018 JUNE 2019 2019 JUNE 2020 Area regreened (ha) Area subject to regreening 20.000 0 13.688 19.205 22.475 29.646 (ha) Tree density per hectare 40-50 9-85 9-85 24-114 5-194 10-200 Trees diversity per hectare 5-10 2-38 2-38 2-24 2-34 4-35 Number of municipalities 7-8 5 5 7 7 7 that implement regreening activities Number of Village 120-150 69 69 82 85 107 Committees (VC) established and strengthened The overall ratio of women/ 1/5 1/4 1/5 1/5 1.25/5 1/4 men in the committees calculated as result of the ratio per VC Number of (local) agreements 5-10 0 5 6 19 20 between farmers and pastoralists established or strengthened Number of farmers trained 3.000 0 704 2.191 3.412 5.349 on FMNR direct by project partners Number of farmers trained * * * * 4.934** 6.841** on FMNR indirect by peer-trainers Number of farmers that have * * 1.901 2.082 1.881** 3.256 adopted FMNR Number of FMNR * * * 12 52 52 peer-trainers * not defined or not measured yet **not all data is measured yet. Figures show data that is available. Milestones Niger 13 Programme goal 2: There are laws, policies and support programmes in place in Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal (local up to international) that support Farmer-led Regreening 3 YEAR RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS RESULTS MILESTONE BASELINE 2018 JUNE 2019 2019 JUNE 2020 Increased support for FMNR * * * 4 5 6 practices at international governance bodies and/or financial actors (like: GCF, UNFCCC, UNCCD, GEF) Increased support for FMNR * * * 7 7 32 practices at local or national level Proposals presented to * * * 4 4 5 national government and/ or government agencies that support FMNR practices on a local or national level Policy and budget measures * * 1 1 2 2 introduced/improved at the (inter)national level supporting FMNR and/or good land governance. Done by regional and/or national authorities * not defined or not measured yet Programme goal 3: Farmers applying Regreening are organised and have access to markets for (added-value) Farmer-led Regreening products Average yield (like: millets, Millet & sorghum: 365 kg/ha 65 tonnes of * * * * Stems: 647 kg/ha vegetables sorghum and NTFPs) of farmers Biomass for fodder fresh: with a market implementing FMNR practices 887 kg/ha value of 1 Biomass for fodder dried: 2.285.000 CFA. 743 kg/ha Number of farmers applying * * * 3.856 3.856 3.856** FMNR with access to markets for their (added-value) products Number of farmers applying * * * 20 519 519** FMNR techniques that add value to their products * not defined or not measured yet 14 Results Niger FMNR IMPLEMENTATION practices since the beginning of Communities Regreen the Sahel MBR organised an awareness in Niger. raising caravan for stakeholders in four municipalities selected Besides this great progress, it under the sponsorship of the must be noted that there is still a administrative authorities, in huge gap between the access and this case the prefects of the ownership of land between man two departments in which we and women, where respectively are active.