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Communities Regreen the Sahel Year report 2018 2 3 Year report 2018 Content 04 Map of Sahel 18 Lobby and advocacy 29 Yacouba Sawadogo and the Right 40 Annual meeting 2018 Livelihood Award 07 Introduction 19 Acces to markets 42 Sahel in the spotlight 30 Communication 08 Milestones 23 Region Burkina Faso 44 A sneek peak into 2019 33 Region Senegal 11 Region Niger 24 In conversation with Pierre Omer 46 Financial report Ouedraogo 34 In conversation with Mamadou 12 In conversation with Prof. Toudou Fall 47 Colophon Adam and dr. Abasse Tougiani 25 Results Burkina Faso 35 Results Senegal 14 Results Niger 4 5 Sahel Sahara Sahel NIGER Icons SENEGAL BURKINA FASO Milestones Collaborations Preview Budget / Finance Specials Policy XOF Personal stories Region Market 6 Introduction 7 Dear reader, 2018 was the first full year of the Communities In this first year, the consortium was built, Regreen the Sahel programme. A year in strengthened and/or expanded and the first which we dreamed together with all partners. real implementation on the ground started. A year in which we dived in complex planning, The actual work on farmers’ fields mainly took coordinating and cooperation processes. A place in Niger, and to a lesser extent in Burkina year in which we had highlights and challenges Faso and Senegal. This was mostly due to the during meetings and travels. A year in which fact that Niger builds on an existing network local and international attention for the of partners, and in the other countries a Sahel region has grown rapidly. A year that consortium still had to be set up. However, we resulted in a strong are happy to say that consortium ready for all country-consortia the coming years. A year in which local and are now up to speed A year to remember and ready to regreen. as the start of an international attention for impressive movement the Sahel region has grown In this first annual of FMNR advocates, report we want to who already consider rapidly take you on a road themselves to be part trip through last year. of a family. Great pride, We invite you to travel but perhaps above all modesty was what to the Sahel with us and get a glimpse of the we felt during the annual meeting in Senegal activities done and foreseen, after which we last October. The room was filled with over will take drones and satellites to zoom out and 25 people, coming from 4 different countries. see the many links and rural roads that already Different from what we have often experienced, exist between the local and regional work and this time we did not need to be in the lead. The global challenges and developments. country coordinators, together with the representatives of the different Happy reading and bon voyage! organisations took a leading role, which assured me once Kind regards, also on behalf again that –although in a of all teams, different way in each of Roos Nijpels and Fiona the three countries – the Dragstra consortium has ownership of the programme and the Co-coordinators partners really feel they are in control. 8 Milestones overview Milestones overview 9 Programme goal 1 Programme goal 2 and 3 Burkina Faso Senegal Niger AREA REGREENED (HA) LOBBY & ADVOCACY ACCESS TO MARKETS After the establishment of the Lobby & Advoacy team, Target descriptions: (1) Average yield increase the milestones were discussed and per milestone the (millets, sorghum) of regreening farmers. (2) % of 2018 Baseline: 7.000 2018 Baseline: 8.000 2018 Baseline: 13.688 team has identified indicators (see below) Furthermore, farmers applying regreening techniques with access a framework for a L&A baseline study has been agreed to markets for their (added value) products. (3) % of upon for the national and local advoacy challenges farmers applying regreening techniques that add value and is expected soon. This will be followed by a to their products. Target: 15.000 Target: 15.000 Target: 20.000 coordinated joint and individual action plan. Potential regional and international policy frameworks and There are no results yet on increase of production AVERAGE TREE DENSITY PER HECTARE (ON AVERAGE) / TREE SPECIES DIVERSITY FOR BIODIVERSITY climate funds have been identified, such as the or market relations, since the first year focussed on Beating Famine conference, the Green Climate Fund, identifying the current status and potential. For each the UNCCD and UNFCCC COPs and Désertif’actions baseline study, a lot of information is gathered on the 2019. different products and potentials. Since this is a quite new topic for most organisations, special attention Proposals presented and discussed with the regional will be paid during the coming years to strengthen the Baseline tree density: 15 - 46 Baseline tree density: 10 to 25 Baseline tree density: 9 to 85 government/central government/implementing exchange and experience on product development Baseline tree species: 2 to 9 Baseline tree species: 3 to 6 Baseline tree species: 2 to 38 agencies and/or Legislative Assembly. and access to markets. Target tree density: 20 to 25 Target tree density: 20 - 25 Target tree density: 40 - 50 Indicators: INCEPTION PHASE Target tree species: 4 - 8 Target tree species: 4 - 8 Target tree species: 5 - 10 # of submitted proposals whose processes have been documented; # of consultations organised NUMBER OF MUNICIPALITIES IMPLEMENTING REGREENING with regional, national institutions, etc; # of structures Year 1 had a special target for the establishment of involved in the formulation process of the proposals; a project consortium and action plans. This annual Baseline: 22 Baseline: 4 to 7 Baseline: 5 # of institutions to which proposals have been report shows how the consortia have been established Target: 4 - 6 Target: 4 - 6 Target: 7 - 8 submitted; in each country. Both within and between the NUMBER OF VILLAGE COMMITTEES ESTABLISHED AND STRENGTHENED countries connections and plans for exchange and Agreements approved to support FMNR. cooperation have been made. Since working together in such a manner is quite new, it was intensive and Indicators: # of Community Development Plan (PDC) time demanding to create clear and good working in municipalities that take FMNR into account; # of relationships based on mutual understanding. Baseline: 37 Baseline: 10 to 15 Baseline: 69 local agreements and local agreements established Therefore, the first priority was put on alliance building, Target: 50 - 80 Target: 50 - 80 Target: 120 - 150 in communities’ intervention; # of processes engaged after which joint action plans and baseline studied RATIO OF WOMEN/MEN IN VILLAGE COMMITTEES with service techniques in the context of formulating could be done. Because we wanted to do it right, agreements; this process ran into 2019, which can be see in some Baseline: 2 on 5 Baseline: 2 on 5 Baseline: 1 on 4 delayed budget uses and delayed plans. However, Target: 1 on 5 Target: 1 on 5 Target: 1 on 5 Policy and budget measures introduced/improved the teams are now up to speed and made joint action VILLAGES WHERE AGREEMENTS AMONG FARMERS AND PASTORALISTS ARE ESTABLISHED supporting FMNR and/or good land governance. Done plans to catch up on their delays and deliver their by regional and/or national authorities. foreseen results for 2019. Baseline: 1 to 3 Baseline: 2 to 6 Baseline: 0 Target: 5 to 10 Target: 5 to 10 Target: Indicator: # of institutions that have adopted the proposals submitted in the context of regreening; VILLAGES WHERE AGREEMENTS AMONG FARMERS AND PASTORALISTS ARE ESTABLISHED Baseline: 600 Baseline: 500 Baseline: 704 Target: 2000 Target: 2000 Target: 3000 10 Map Region 11 Niger ALGERIA Niger is by far the vastest country of “Communities and evaluation of regreening through FMNR in Niger, Regreen the Sahel”. With its 1.268.000 square kilome- particularly in the regions of Maradi, Zinder and Dosso. ters, and largely desert and sand dunes covered land, Around 5 million hectares of degraded land has already not necessarily the country you would expect to be been restored. In the coming years, the Nigerien regreened at large. Luckily, our partners are proving the consortium partners will focus on the regions of Dosso contrary. Over 45.682 hectares of land in Niger is being and Tahoua. It will expand its work in the communities NIGER used for agricultural production and more than 80% of of Dogonkiria and Soucoucoutane, where FMNR work the population is dependent on small-scale agriculture has started about 2 to 3 years ago. Moreover, in 2018, in rural areas. In the past years, our Nigerien consorti- three new communities were added, Matankari and MALI um partners, led and coordinated by the Regional Cen- Dankassari in the department of Dogondoutchi, and ter for Specialised Education in Agriculture (CRESA) of Alléla, in the department of Birni N’Konni. In the course the Faculty of Agronomy (Abdou Moumouni University of the coming years, the FMNR message will be widely of Niamey), and including INRAN, R.A.I.L. CNCOD/ spread as more and more communities will join. ReSaD and HIMMA, have contributed to the promotion XOF CHAD NIGERIA 12 Interview Niger Interview Niger 13 MARKET ACCESS communicate properly to our local move forward. We also see a clear In conversation with “What surprised me a lot this partners as well as Both ENDS. comparative advantage with the year”, Toudou continues, “was how I feel like we are getting there differences in all countries where about working on market access and the together. Moreover, as we are two we can be complementary to one enabling environment right from coordinators in Niger – myself another.” Prof. Toudou Adam and 2018 the beginning, can already have as a national coordinator and Toudou: “If I look at the past year I such an impact in the way farmers Abasse as a scientific coordinator am most proud of how the com- adopt FMNR practices.