Local Environmental Coalition for a Green Union (FLEUVE)

The Local Environmental Coalition for a Green Union (FLEUVE) is developed by civil society organizations with the support of the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (GM-UNCCD) through funding from the European Union. It is a project in support of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI). It strengthens the management of natural resources and the fight against land degradation along the GGW route. FLEUVE addresses the problem of insufficient capacity building in the field of planning on the part of local authorities and populations to deal with land degradation and desertification themselves. The innovative nature of the project is based on the territorial approach, reinforced by a commodity chain approach with the development of endogenous potentialities in particular, milk, non-timber forest products, poultry farming, beekeeping, etc., around which integrated rural development poles (IRDP) are to be set up. The approach creates links between local and regional authorities and economic actors in the sectors responsible for the use of natural resources and thus extends the partnership to new actors and sectors.

The project aims at the integration of the sustainable management of natural resources, land and ecosystem risks in development plans at local level, and their implementation through the setting up of innovative and multi-stakeholder partnerships including the public and private sectors, as part of a contribution to the implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative in Senegal.