Strategic goal 1: Strengthen policies, institutions and strategies that help enhance the resilience of rural livelihoods in semi-arid zones of Africa
Programme 1: Capacity building support for policy development and resilience programming
- Policy dialogue on key issues affecting resilience of rural livelihoods in semi-arid zones of Africa
- Policy analysis and training focusing on building resilience
- Support programme design, review and monitoring and evaluation in semi-arid zones as part of CAADP-based National Agricultural and Food Security Investment Plans (NAFSIPs)
Programme 2: Strengthening producer (agricultural livelihood-based) organisations in semi-arid zones
- Support institutional development of producer (agricultural livelihood-based) organisations and their engagement with CAADP
- Support the promotion of strategic agricultural value chain in Semi=Arid zone of Africa.
Strategic Goal 2: To Enhance African capacities in research, technology dissemination and knowledge management for building the resilience of rural livelihoods in semi-arid zones of Africa.
Programme 3: Facilitation of agricultural research and transfer of technologies and innovations in the context of semi-arid zones
- Facilitate technology generation that would strengthen resilience in semi arid zones through capacity strengthening of research institutions priorities.
- Facilitate dissemination of technologies that would enhanced resilience and contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Programme 4 : Knowledge management, networking and communication
- Documentation and sharing of success stories and lessons Inform global deliberations on desertification and sustainable agricultural farming system through TPN6
- Coordination of the thematic programme network for the promotion of sustainable agricultural farming systems to combat desertification(TPN6) of the UNCCD. More details
- Support ‘resilience oriented ’ thematic networks and the CAADP Knowledge, Information and Skills (KIS) support system.