Journal
LAND
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/land11030352
Keywords
afforestation; deforestation; sustainable development; Sahel; land degradation
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Funding
- UNEP/GEF [9825]
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This paper focuses on the evaluation of socio-economic impacts of the Great Green Wall Initiative and proposes a framework to measure the well-being effects of sustainable land management interventions. The authors conducted a literature review and analyzed project evaluation reports to improve monitoring and inform the design of future projects.
The Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) is a pan-African program launched in 2007 to combat land degradation and bring about both ecological and socio-economic benefits in the Sahel. With projects in place on only one-fifth of the targeted land and uncertainty about the extent of positive impacts, there is a need for improved monitoring and evaluation of current projects to inform the design of future projects. In this paper, we focus on the evaluation of socio-economic impacts, drawing on development theory, to relate investments in sustainable land management (SLM) to outcomes in terms of human well-being. We deploy a conceptual model, which draws on both the capability approach to human development and the sustainable livelihood framework. To contextualize the framework to the Sahel, we undertook a literature review of scientific studies of the facilitative social conditions and socio-economic impacts of SLM interventions in four countries: Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger and Ethiopia. We further refined the framework by examining project evaluation reports of Global Environmental Facility (GEF)-funded SLM projects. Our analysis of GEF projects shows that current monitoring and evaluation pays only limited attention to achieved outcomes in terms of well-being. We briefly discuss the application of the framework to SLM interventions and make recommendations for how it should be operationalized, including recommending more comprehensive measurement of the well-being impacts of these projects.
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