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GENERAL INFORMATION

Grant Approval Date
End (estimated) Date
Project Cost $996,700 by ACCF and $360,000 by the Private sector
Sector
Executing Agency Global Shea Alliance
Current status Ongoing
Togo - Burkina Faso - Towards Climate Resilient Shea Communities
Togo/Burkina Faso - Towards Climate Resilient Shea Communities
Background

Shea trees grow naturally on 28 million hectares in traditional farming systems in Burkina Faso and Togo. The trees are integrated with crops on smallholder farms, creating an agroforestry landscape resilient to climate change. Indeed, every year, shea parklands in West Africa capture more than 1.5 million tons of CO₂. However, this ecosystem, which is key for climate change mitigation, is at risk. It is estimated that about 8 million trees are lost every year in West Africa due to the loss of fallows, lack of regeneration, commercial agriculture, and tree removal for charcoal purposes.

In 2023, the Global Shea Alliance (GSA) signed an agreement worth USD 996,700 with the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Africa Climate Change Fund to deliver a two-year project entitled “Towards Climate Resilient Shea Communities in Togo and Burkina Faso.” The GSA brings an additional USD 360,900 in co-financing to the project. This project will reduce the climate vulnerability of 7,500 women shea collectors and their communities (more than 30,000 people) in Togo and Burkina Faso by increasing income generated from activities like shea and apiculture and improving community-led parkland management practices.

Objectives

To increase the climate resilience of 7,500 women shea collectors and their communities (30,000 people overall) in Togo and Burkina Faso through increased income from natural products (shea and apiculture) as well as introduction of community-led parkland management practices. 

Main Components/Outputs
  1. Technical assistance provided on climate smart processing practices and energy sources to cooperative members and by-laws committee members
  2. Conservation equipment provided to female cooperative members
  3. Technical assistance on business management provided to female cooperative members
  4. Storage equipment provided to female cooperative members
  5. Technical assistance provided on parkland restoration to female cooperative members
  6. Equipment provided to restore shea parklands to female cooperative members
  7. Technical assistance provided on development and implementation of parkland by-laws to community members
Key Achievements or Progress

  1. Establishment of 15 shea cooperatives.

  2. Construction of 15 warehouses.

  3. 7,867 cooperative members trained on cooperative development and governance (overview of cooperatives, governance structure including by-laws), business development (understanding the value chain, cash flow management, and developing income-generating activities), and aggregation (concept of group sales, collection management, storage management, and good shea collection and processing practices).

  4. 300 cookstoves donated.

  5. 15 local by-laws signed.

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