Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 6 April 2026
(sahara-sahel.org) – The gist of this edition’s texts are that in Africa’s Sahel and broader dry belt, overlapping crises—water scarcity,…
Advanced practices in gender lens investing: Sahel Capital (Criterion Institute)
This study makes the case that attaining gender equality in finance necessitates a fundamental change in how investment decisions are…
Local Solutions, Global Urgency: Addressing climate, conflict, and fragility in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (OXFAM)
In collaboration with local actors in Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Oxfam conducted pilot studies between 2024 and…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 12 December 2025
Main points of the texts on drought trends in Mali, empowering displaced women, two decades of inequality, and the “Great…
Stitching hope: empowering displaced women in the Sahel (World Bank)
Through training, equipment, and revenue-generating activities, the Community-Based Sahel Recovery and Stabilization Project (PCRSS), which is carried out in Burkina…
Audio and Key Insights: sahara-sahel.org, 12 November 2025
(Gemini Audio) Main points of the texts on a UNOWAS working group meeting, analytical means as to drought dynamics, and…
Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Women, Youth, Peace and Security in West Africa and the Sahel (WGWYPS-WAS) (UNOWAS via ZAWYA)
More than 100 representatives from governments, civil society, and international organizations gathered in Dakar, Senegal, for the 2023 Annual Meeting…
Critical review of the interactions of agrosilvopastoralism with food systems in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (Wageningen University & Research)
Using gender, governance, innovation, market integration, and intra-community power dynamics as its five main drivers, the study at hand investigates…
Speech: Let us stand with the women of the Sahel in recognition of their power to shape a better future (UN WOMEN)
In her speech to the UN Security Council, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous emphasized the dire circumstances that women…
Audio… Advancing Women’s Leadership for Inclusive Governance in the Sahel (West Africa Democracy Radio)
Regional stakeholders examined women’s historical and current roles in governance at the Sahel Governance Forum in The Gambia, which had…
Voices of Resilience: A Gender Needs Analysis on Preventing Violent Extremism in the Sahel (unicri)
UNICRI has gathered evidence of the gendered approach of jihadist groups’ messaging and the roles of women and girls in…
Where the desert advances, women push back (CIFOR-ICRAF)
The Great Green Wall (GGW) project is still gaining momentum. Beginning in 2007, this African-led initiative aims to plant a…