The ACReSAL is a six-year World Bank assisted Project committed to landscapes restoration in Northern Nigeria. The region is characterized by high poverty rates, low literacy, an environment of fragility, conflict, and violence, degradation of natural resources, poor agricultural productivity, climate risks, desertification, poor penetration of modern technology, and weak institutional capacity.
The Project Development Objective of the Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) is to increase the implementation of sustainable landscape management practices in targeted watersheds in northern Nigeria and strengthen Nigeria’s long-term enabling environment for integrated climate-resilient landscape management.
To address environmental challenges arising from Climate Change and poor land-use practices in Northern Nigeria.
To have strong practices and policies on ecological restoration and a climate change resilient community.
This component will implement integrated watershed management planning and addresses challenges of large-scale watershed degradation in northern Nigeria
Most of the challenges of dryland management are to be found at the local level, where they constitute the day-today reality of communities and farmers. Communities need support to be more resilient and communites and households need targeted investments to put new approaches into effect. In targeted microwatersheds
This component includes investments to improve the enabling institutional and policy foundation for multisectoral integrated landscape management and climate resilence, as well as support to project management
A Contingent Emergency Response Component (CERC) is a financing mechanism available to Borrowers in Investment Project Financing (IPF) operations to enable quick deployment of uncommitted funds to respond to an eligible crisis or emergency. An operations manual will describe in detail the implementation arrangements for the emergency response mechanism
Greening the environment,
saving lives
ACReSAL interventions will improve land use planning, restoration of degraded land, increase food productivity and help a wide range of communities adapt to evolving dryland conditions with an end target of 3.4 million direct project beneficiaries.
ACReSAL will specifically target the inclusion of vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women, youth, the elderly, persons with disabilities, internally displaced people, and ethnic and religious minorities. Importantly, farmers and host communities across the 19 participating states and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) will benefit immensely from the project.
This will help ensure their full participation in community level structures established or supported under the project. Government institutions at federal and state levels and other partners from governmental and nongovernmental agencies will be beneficiaries of the institutional modernization and policy support investments.
The project will assist in minimizing the ugly incidences of herders-farmers conflicts, over grazing land, and water through community cohesion and peace building.
ACReSAL interventions will improve land use planning and help a wide range of communities adapt to evolving dryland conditions with an end target of 3.4 million direct project beneficiaries
The concept of ACReSAL is to fund investments strategically in the area of ecosystem restoration, flood and sedimentations control, sand dunes stabilization, watershed infrastructure such as integrated dams/small-scale multipurpose reservoirs and irrigation.
The sustainability of these investments will be reinforced by strengthening institutions and information services across sectors and States, including support to improve governance, regulatory compliance, environmental monitoring, impact evaluation, watershed and land use planning, thus, strengthening Nigeria’s capacity to promote and implement climate- resilient projects.
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Kebbi State is participating in the ACReSAL project which is a multi-sectoral and multi-institutional scheme, covering Environment, Agriculture and Water. The project is to support the state combat desertification, restore degraded lands and special ecosystems for agriculture and biodiversity conservation.