‘Why Implementing GGW Activities in Member States is Difficult’
Poor financial provision and mobilization has been a major obstacle to the effective and impactful implementation process of the activities of the laudable Great Green Wall Initiative in virtually all the participating member states.
This was disclosed by Engr. Hassan Musa, Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Environment, at the ‘Technical Experts Meeting of the 8th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Great Green Wall, GGW, Member Countries.
He said: “2.Reasonable as the commitments and dedication of the technical experts are to the achievement of the goals and objectives of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara and Sahel Initiative (GGWSSI) are, one of critical vehicles to make them realizable is financial resources”.
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According to Engr. Musa, the recognition of the paucity of financial resources for the implementation of the Great Green Wall initiative led to the several billions of US Dollars pledged by a coalition of Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs) at the 4th Edition of the “One Planet Summit” on Climate Change and Biodiversity held in Paris, France on 11th of January, 2021.
“The pragmatic efforts of GGW member countries so pledged by the (TFPs) require necessary evaluation which I sincerely believe, would be the centre-stage of the deliberation of this technical committee of experts.
“The need to come up with a well-articulated and actionable strategies for its mobilization of these pledged financial resources is expected at the end of this technical session,” he said.
In his opening remarks, Dr. Yusuf Maina Bukar, Director General, National Agency for the Great Green Wall, NAGGW, noted that the “technical committee of experts is a statutory meeting that deliberates on critical items and issues bordering implementation activities of the Great Green Wall”.
