The Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) initiative seeks to accelerate the
adoption of sustainable land management and livelihood strategies across the Great Green
Wall area. It will work with, and to the benefit of, all the relevant stakeholders, including the
Commission of the African Union, the Pan-African Agency of the Great Green Wall, national
and sub-national governments, non-governmental and civil society organisations, the private
sector and EU Delegations.
The K4GGWA Innovation Facility
The objective of the Innovation Facility is to identify and select promising and/or innovative
initiatives and approaches, to support them along a growth, scaling-up and/or scaling-out
pathway, and to extend that support using a variety of tools, most notably a small grants
instrument.
The facility will seek to identify and promote initiatives that are not merely promising, but
also scalable. These could include any initiatives that support the broader biophysical,
sociopolitical and gender objectives of the Great Green Wall. Their focus could be on
practices, approaches, governance issues, technologies, business models, and innovative
institutional arrangements – in short, anything that shows promise in the acceleration of the
broader Great Green Wall objectives.
Because the innovation facility’s primary focus will be on scalability, it will explicitly seek to
overcome the all too common “not invented here” syndrome by identifying and encouraging
the spread of innovative approaches across the GGW area, irrespective of where they
originated.
Do you have an idea to scale up or scale out land restoration solutions? Share it with us!
Across the Sahel and the Great Green Wall region, powerful ideas like Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), grazing management and land restoration have already changed lives. But these solutions need to reach more people, faster.
That’s where you come in!
We are NOT looking for people who are just planting trees, expanding a business, or running a small local NGO. We want ideas that help proven agricultural solutions spread widely—across villages, districts, or even countries.
🔹 Who can participate? Anyone with an idea to scale up and/or scale out sustainable agricultural practices in one or more of these 11 Great Green Wall countries:
🇸🇳 Senegal, 🇲🇷 Mauritania, 🇲🇱 Mali, 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso, 🇳🇪 Niger, 🇳🇬 Nigeria, 🇹🇩 Chad, 🇸🇩 Sudan, 🇪🇹 Ethiopia, 🇪🇷 Eritrea, 🇩🇯 Djibouti.
🔹 What are we looking for? ONLY ideas that help agricultural innovations reach more farmers and communities—not just in one village, but across a region or country.
🔹 Why participate? The best ideas will receive recognition, visibility, and financial support from the K4GGWA Innovation Facility to grow and create impact.
📅 Deadline to apply: March 31, 2025.
Fill out the form to share your idea or nominate a person or organization that is successfully scaling up agricultural solutions.
And if your innovation is not about scaling up? Don’t despair. The K4GGWA innovation facility will launch two calls for proposals a year until 2027!