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Integrated Resilience in the Sahel

The World Food Programme is scaling resilience in the Tandou Valley and other communities across the five countries in the Sahel.

The Resilience Monitoring and Measurement framework shows positive outcomes in ecological restoration, food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, access to social services, reduction of daily hardships, and social cohesion.

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3.2 million people benefited from activities in 2023 in over 3,190 villages, and over 280,240 hectares of land were rehabilitated by Sahelians since 2018.

The 2023-2028 phase of the Sahel Integrated Resilience Programme continues to build regional resilience, while solidifying regional and national partnerships that will be charged with carry the vision and projects forward into the future.

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Impact Pathway

Experience an interactive simulation of desertification impacts. See how interventions affect the community of Tandou Valley, Chad.

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Tandou Valley

Learn more about how the rural community of the Tandou Valley in southeastern Chad has survived in the semi-arid landscape of the Sahel — and is now adapting to a fast-changing world.

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Current Challenges

Like many other communities in Chad and across the Sahel, the Tandou Valley faces multiple intertwined challenges, including a degraded ecological landscape, climate change, hunger, poverty, and armed conflict.

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Adaptive Planning

WFP's three-pronged approach to project development provides an adaptive framework to create a collaborative plan aimed to address a food security crisis while fostering long-term resilience.

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Interventions & Asset Creation

Multiple interventions are underway to counter environmental degradation, food and nutrition insecurity, and intensifying climate change. Asset creation supports these efforts through infrastructure and ecological design.

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Outcomes

Assessing outcomes is an integral component of adaptive management. Positive changes are the goal, but unfulfilled objectives offer lessons for shifting to more effective strategies.

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Lex Icons™

Lex Icons™ are an eminently useful, peer-reviewed visual language of terms and principles that describe desertification solutions.

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The Greening platform is produced by The Lexicon with support from the World Food Programme. The World Food Programme is scaling resilience in the Tandou Valley and other communities across the five countries in the Sahel. The Resilience Monitoring and Measurement framework shows positive outcomes in ecological restoration, food and nutrition security, economic empowerment, access to social services, reduction of daily hardships, and social cohesion. 

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