Reforestation & agroforestryEarly stage

SURAGGWA: Scaling-Up Resilience in the Great Green Wall

Launched at COP30 in Belem in November 2025, SURAGGWA is a 222 million USD Green Climate Fund programme to restore 1.2 to 1.3 million hectares across the Sahel.

Eight-country Sahel, spanning Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and SenegalDegraded Sahelian drylands and agro-pastoral landscapesGreen Climate Fund
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Fatou Kine Doucoure, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsImage source ↗
OperatorFAO with the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall
EcosystemDegraded Sahelian drylands and agro-pastoral landscapes
StandardGreen Climate Fund
StatusEarly stage
LocationEight-country Sahel, spanning Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal
Overview

Inside the project

SURAGGWA is a Great Green Wall programme spanning eight Sahelian countries: Burkina Faso, Chad, Djibouti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.

It is implemented by FAO with the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall and funded by the Green Climate Fund at 222 million USD.

The programme was launched at COP30 in Belem in November 2025 and is positioned as the flagship fundable instrument of the Great Green Wall, distinct from the initiative in the abstract.

1.3M ha
Land to be restored
222M USD
Green Climate Fund financing
15,000 groups
Community groups trained
5.7M people
People to benefit

Objectives

  • Restore 1.2 to 1.3 million hectares of degraded Sahelian land through low-emission, climate-resilient land management.
  • Train roughly 15,000 community groups in resilient land practices.
  • Contribute to the Great Green Wall's sequestration goals.
  • Improve conditions for around 5.7 million people.

Approach

  • Low-emission, climate-resilient land management across degraded Sahelian landscapes.
  • Training and mobilisation of roughly 15,000 community groups.
  • Delivery through FAO and the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall as a fundable, instrument-level programme.

Published documents

Sector assessment: Growing Resilience: Unlocking the Potential of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa →Publisher's own programme report: Regional launch of SURAGGWA — USD 222 million to strengthen climate resilience in the Sahel →

Sources

Inspect 2 sources
  1. fao.org ↗https://www.fao.org/gcf/news-and-events/news-detail/global-launch-of-usd-222-million-great-green-wall-programme-at-cop30-to-restore-sahel-landscapes/en
  2. fao.org ↗https://www.fao.org/africa/news-stories/news-detail/regional-launch-of-suraggwa--usd-222-million-to-strengthen-climate-resilience-in-the-sahel/en

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