National Strategy and Action Plan for the Implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative in Ethiopia - July 2012.

The National Strategy and Action Plan for the Implementation of the Great Green Wall highlights the evolution of the Great Green Wall for the Sahel and Sahara Initiative (GGWSSI); presents assessment of Ethiopia’s biophysical, socio-economic and policy, legislation and institutional aspects as they relate to the initiative and potential areas across the GGWSSI development. It also highlights past integrated natural resources management experiences, lesson learnt from and currently under implementation national development programmes and plans for aligning the GGWSSI for increasing synergy and effectiveness. The strategy consists of six pillars namely: 1) sustainable management of natural resources and improved production systems, 2) development of basic socio-economic infrastructures, 3) development of income generating activities, 4) promotion of good local governance, 5) capacity building of stakeholders and 6) research and knowledge management. These pillars have been inclined into 4 programmes for ease of implementation; these programmes encompass sub-programmes with objectives, outputs and activities presented in logic of intervention for the GGWSSI in Ethiopia.