Human Rights Climate Change and Migration in the Sahel (OHCHR)
This report provides an overview of climate change-related migration through a human rights lens.Building on a case study included in…
Pastoralism: Supporting livelihoods, building peace (FAO)
With funding from the Peacebuilding Fund, FAO and the IOM have partnered on a project in the Liptako-Gourma area, which…
Assessing the Environmental Suitability for Transhumance in Support of Conflict Prevention in the Sahel (MDPI)
A clear difference in environmental suitability between the origin and destination areas of herders was found in the dry season,…
Climate change, development, and conflict-fragility nexus in the Sahel (Brookings)
More than 40 years after a catastrophic famine struck the region, the Sahel has once again become the focus of…
State, Borders and Territory in the Sahel: The Case of the G5 Sahel (Policy Center for the New South)
“This Policy Brief highlights the depths of the Sahel crisis. Some aspects of the crisis, such as extremist violence, migration,…
Sahel: Moving beyond military containment policy report (Atlantic Council)
“It has been almost ten years since the beginning of the security crisis in the Sahel. In the throes of…
Central Sahel: Improve children’s wellbeing and learning – Increasing psychosocial support in schools (UN OCHA)
“The humanitarian impact of this crisis is worrisome with a number of displaced people multiplied by 10, growing from 213,000…
UNDP launches Sahel Offer, seeking largest joint commitment to regenerate the region (UNDP)
“UNDP’s Sahel Offer – A Regeneration – is a $3.6 billion programme, which focuses on three main areas Governance, Energy…
Harvesting the rain: The adoption of environmental technologies in the Sahel (Tufts, UCSB)
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Africa’s ‘Great Green Wall’ could have far-reaching climate effects (ScienceNews)
“Africa’s “Great Green Wall” initiative is a proposed 8,000-kilometer line of trees meant to hold back the Sahara from expanding…
Targeting for Social Safety Nets: Evidence from Nine Programs in the Sahel (socialprotection.org)
“This paper analyzes household data from nine programs implemented in the Sahel region using a harmonized approach to compare Proxy-Means…
Livestock and ecosystems in the Sahel: the good, the bad and the ugly (World Agroforestry)
“In the Sahel, livestock rearing is practised by over 20 million pastoralists and is a crucial adaptation strategy in the…