Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) Innovation Facility 2025

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Applications are open for Knowledge for Great Green Wall Action (K4GGWA) Innovation Facility 2025. 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.

They 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.

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.

K4GGWA Innovation Facility Benefits

The best ideas will receive recognition, visibility, and financial support from the K4GGWA Innovation Facility to grow and create impact.

What are they looking for?

ONLY ideas that help agricultural innovations reach more farmers and communities—not just in one village, but across a region or country.

Eligibility Criteria for K4GGWA Innovation Facility

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.