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The program aims to strengthen food system resilience across seven West African countries through regional integration, improved food crisis prevention mechanisms, and sustainable management of agricultural landscapes. It promotes climate-adaptive food production, trade, and emergency preparedness to address food insecurity while ensuring effective project governance and monitoring

This project focuses on improving integrated water resources management and access to water and sanitation services in Uganda's priority urban areas. Key activities include implementing catchment management plans, strengthening water monitoring systems, and expanding urban water supply infrastructure while enhancing institutional capacities for sustainable resource management.

This project improves the management of natural resources and tourism assets in Southern Tanzania while increasing alternative livelihoods for communities near Protected Areas. Activities include infrastructure improvements in Protected Areas, alternative livelihood development, and catchment conservation to ensure sustainable landscape and water management.

The Productive Social Safety Net II Project in Tanzania improves access to income-earning opportunities and socio-economic services for poor households. It includes cash transfers, public works programs, and institutional strengthening to enhance delivery systems and protect human capital development.

The Sustainable Land Management Project in Ethiopia seeks to reduce land degradation and enhance land productivity in targeted watersheds. It supports the scaling up of sustainable land and water management practices, strengthens institutional capacity, improves land tenure security, and promotes knowledge sharing for sustainable natural resource management.

The South Sudan Resilient Agricultural Livelihoods Project strengthens the capacity of farmers and their organizations to improve agricultural production. It supports climate resilience through agroforestry and tree planting on degraded landscapes, while also enhancing food security, seed availability, and farming practices.

The Shock Responsive and Resilient Social Safety Net Project aims to provide emergency cash transfers and improve resilience among vulnerable households in Comoros. The project supports cash-for-work programs for water conservation, landscape management, and reforestation, addressing shocks and enhancing community resilience.

The development objective of Human Capital Project for is to improve access to basic services and labor market relevant training in Cabo Verde. This project has five components. 1) Support education system reforms to better prepare in-school youth for future employment, with the following sub-components: (i) Ensure all youth in secondary education acquire skills relevant to the labor market; (ii) Strengthen the system for teacher professional development; and (iii) Monitor learning outcomes and use results to improve education quality.

The development objective of the Espírito Santo Water Security Management Project for Brazil is to: (i) to strengthen the Borrower’s capacity to manage water security risks in a changing climate; (ii) to reduce those risks in selected areas of the Borrower’s territory; and (iii) in case of an eligible crisis or emergency, respond promptly and effectively to it. The project comprises of five components. The project will implement NBS to reduce water security risks in selected river basins and support integrated flood risk management. 

The objectives of the Project are to: (a) improve sustainable water resources management, and (b) increase access to sanitation in the Borrower’s territory. The project seeks to improve watershed management, including through reforestation and improved land management.