Nature, Biodiversity and Marine Ecosystems
Green Resilience Africa | ASCEND Synthesis Team
The Green Resilience Africa team will synthesise available data to generate evidence-based recommendations to support forest landscape restoration practices in countries including Ethiopia, Togo, and Madagascar.
Overview
About this synthesis team
The Green Resilience Africa team will synthesise available data to generate evidence-based recommendations to support forest landscape restoration practices in countries including Ethiopia, Togo, and Madagascar.
The Challenge
Nature-based solutions are widely promoted but unevenly evidenced. Planners across African cities and rural districts need to know which interventions actually reduce flood, heat, and drought risk in their context, and the evidence is spread across small, disconnected studies.
Our Approach
The team assembles terrestrial ecosystem, vegetation, and land-use datasets alongside systematic reviews of intervention effectiveness, then translates the synthesis into planning guidance with municipal and community partners.
Expected Outputs
- Nature-based solutions toolkit
- Land-use planning guidelines
- Community action white paper
People
Team members
Researchers, practitioners, and decision-makers contributing to this synthesis team.
Project leads
6 membersKouami Kokou
University of Lomé, Togo
Kossi Hounkpati
University of Lomé, Togo
Katharina Löhr
ZALF (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research); University of Sustainable Development (HNE) Eberswalde
Shibire Bekele Eshetu
ZALF (Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research), Germany
Ousseynou Ndoye
AUDA-NEPAD/AFR100 Secretariat, South Africa
Diana Mawoko
AUDA-NEPAD/AFR100 Secretariat, South Africa
Project members
9 membersTsegaye Bekele
Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Asmelash Tesfaye
Hawassa University, Ethiopia
Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimba
LlandDev (Land, Landscape and Development Research Lab), Madagascar
Hamy Raharinaivo
LlandDev (Land, Landscape and Development Research Lab), Madagascar
Lydia Atutonu
Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources, Togo
Essodouna Kpatcha
Ministry of Environment and Forest Resources, Togo
Komla Mensah Gatonnou
DFS (implementing GIZ-F4F Project), Togo
Rachel Awoussi Boyindjo
DFS (implementing GIZ-F4F Project), Togo
Sélome Adoussi Houetognon
INADESFORMATION, Togo
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