ABOUT GGWOA
Unlocking the potential in Africa’s landscape
We leverage culture, policy, and community partnerships to ensure climate adaptation strategies reduce the trade-offs between economic growth and sustainability.
MISSION STATEMENT
Culture-Powered Climate Action
The Great Green Wall of Africa Foundation supports projects with concurrent high positive impact. We convene communities, stakeholders, and policy makers so that climate adaptation strategies become integrated development strategies.
How We Work
Diagnostics and storytelling reveal the cultural context of each landscape. From there, we co-design investments that honour traditional knowledge, integrate technology, and anchor long-term governance.
OUR STORY
From Cultural Spark to Continental Movement
Rooted in Community Wisdom
Our journey began with listening tours across the Sahel, where we learned that the most powerful restoration strategies emerge when cultural knowledge guides climate action. Communities weren't just stakeholders—they were the architects of change.
Key Insight
Cultural identity is the most powerful driver of environmental stewardship.
Scaling Through Partnership
Today, we convene governments, financiers, artists, and communities around shared restoration goals. By creating platforms for cross-sector collaboration, we've transformed local insights into continental impact.
Our Network
11 countries, 100+ partners, and thousands of community leaders working together.
WHAT WE ACTIVATE
Four Pillars to Regenerate the Sahel
Inspired by communities on the frontlines, each pillar combines policy engagement, financing, and storytelling to unlock scale.
Climate Change Initiative
Promoting bold climate projects that deliver measurable ecological gains and economic opportunity through innovative restoration strategies.
Culture Building
Mobilizing cultural leaders and storytellers so stewardship becomes an expression of pride and identity across communities.
Child Education Expansion
Creating early learning experiences under 'green canopies' that connect children to land-based knowledge and environmental stewardship.
Community Empowerment
Investing in local governance, skills, and circular economies so communities design their own pathways to sustainable prosperity.
IMPACT SNAPSHOT
Measurable Progress
OPERATING PRINCIPLES
Our Guiding Values
Culture is infrastructure
Creative expression unlocks momentum and trust in communities.
Communities lead from day zero
Local partners sit at the design table and share in the upside.
Cross-sector collaboration
Policy makers, artists, scientists, and investors solve in the same room.
Measurable impact
Every hectare is measured for ecological, social, and economic outcomes.
OUR JOURNEY
From Cultural Spark to Continental Coalition
Follow our evolution from local listening tours to Pan-African movement building.
Follow Announcements2010–2015
Listening tours & cultural mapping
Building foundational relationships and understanding local contexts across the Sahel region.
2016–2020
Pilot forests, creative coalitions, and policy advocacy
Testing restoration models and building strategic partnerships for scale.
2021–2023
Cross-border projects, women-led innovation labs
Expanding impact across multiple countries with community-centered approaches.
2024+
Pan-African alliance scaling regenerative economies
Building continental coalition for systemic transformation and sustainable growth.
JOIN OUR COALITION
Help Design the Largest Living Structure on Earth
Whether you represent government, philanthropy, or creative industries, we are ready to co-create long-term impact along the Great Green Wall.