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Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative

Large-scale dryland restoration across Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger using water harvesting, agroforestry and native-species practices.

Problem

Land degradation and soil erosion

Place

Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger

Organisations

United Nations World Food Programme

Method

Dryland water harvesting and agroforestry

Review state

EXTERNALLY VETTED

What the sources establish

1. Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative is recognised by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration as a World Restoration Flagship.

   externally reviewed · strong · external review — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration is a source-reported programme metric and is not silently converted into ecological outcome.

2. The UN profile reports 335,537 hectares under restoration and a 472,000 hectare restoration goal for 2030.

   source checked · source reported · reported not independently verified — UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration / Ecosystem Restoration Hub — Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative

   Limitation: UN/implementer-reported project information; not independently measured by 4PLANET.

   Limitation: World Restoration Flagship status is external review, not 4PLANET verification.

   Limitation: Area under restoration is a source-reported programme metric and is not silently converted into ecological outcome.

What this record does not establish

4PLANET has not reviewed this project under its own method. No 4PLANET partnership, funding or verified ecological outcome is recorded.

Sources

• decadeonrestoration.org

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