81286509-Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security

The "Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security" programme has been commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) within the framework of the special initiative "ONE WORLD - No Hunger". It is implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ). The global programme implements a total of eight specific measures (country packages) in seven partner countries (Ethiopia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Kenya, India, Madagascar and Tunisia) and is coordinated through a steering unit in Bonn, Germany. The aim of the programme is the promotion of soil protection and rehabilitation of degraded soils as well as the promotion of political anchoring and the identification of incentive mechanisms to promote soil protection, by setting practical examples and feeding them into multi- stakeholder processes. Most country packages (CP) have been implemented since the second half of the year 2015. The country packages in Madagascar and Tunisia have started in 2018 and 2019 respectively. Since 2021, an EU-Cofinancing "ProSilience - Enhancing soils and agroecology for resilientagri-food systems in Sub-Saharan Africa" is embedded in the Global Programme "Soil Protection and Rehabilitation for Food Security". This Multi-Donor Action is jointly co-funded by the European Union (EU) and BMZ and implemented by GIZ as a contribution to the EU initiative "Development of Smart Innovation through Research in Agriculture (DeSIRA)". The specific objective of ProSilience is to enhance the agroecological transition towards sustainable agri-food systems in selected partner countries. The leadership and peer learning programme for agroecological transition, which is subject of this call, will be financed to a full extent by ProSilience.