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Contribution to TerrAfrica Leverage Trust Fund
REG/FED/22122

Agreement No.REG/FED/22122: Contribution to TerrAfrica Leverage Trust Fund was signed in February 2011 for an amount of €10.0 million and to be implemented over a period of 96 months.

Implementation Mode

The programme is implemented through an Administration agreement between the EC and the World Bank Group (joint management).

Other contributions to the programme are as follows:

  • Norway (USD) 3,500 000
  • The Netherlands (USD) 6,000 000
  • EC Budget (EUR) 815,000

Objective

The specific objective of the TerrAfrica Country Flagship Programme is to scale up climate-smart land and water management practices on the ground, in order to accumulate landscape carbon and help bridge Africa’s climate adaptation deficit.

The programme’s expected results are as follows:

  1. Countries upscale SLM practices in priority zones. This will lead to on-ground climate adaptation and mitigation and their co-benefits including enhanced accumulation of carbon in soil and biomass, higher yields, etc;
  2. Climate risk incorporated in to decision making on SLM.

The Programme is ongoing

Beneficiary countries:

Burkina Faso, Burundi, Congo, Comoros, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Malawi, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe. At regional level, the programme is implemented through the Regional Economic Communities (COMESA, ECOWAS, ECCAS, SADC)

For more information, contact: Department of Sustainable Economic Development and Trade