Terms and Acronyms
- AFD Agence Française de Développement
- AfDB African Development Bank
- AgDPL Agricultural Development Policy Loan
- AU African Union
- AUC African Union Commission
- CAADP Comprehensive Africa Agricultural Development Programme
- CAS Country Assistance Strategy
- CBA Cost Benefit Analysis
- CEA Country Environmental Analysis
- COMESA Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
- CSO Civil Society Organisations
- CRIC Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention
- CST Country Support Tool
- CSIF Country SLM Investment Framework
- EAP NEPAD’s Environment Action Plan for the Environment Initiative
- ECOWAS Economic Community of West African States
- EC European Commission
- ENRM Environment and Natural Resource Management Group
- FABS Food and Agriculture Budget Support
- FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
- FASDEP Food and Agriculture Sector Development Policy
- FMAWR Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (Nigeria)
- GEF Global Environment Facility
- GDC German Development Cooperation
- GM Global Mechanism
- GTZ Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (German Technical Cooperation)
- Ha Hectare
- IDA International Development Association
- IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
- IGAD Inter Governmental Authority on Development
- IUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature
- KENVO Kijabe Environmental Volunteers
- KM Knowledge Management
- M&E Monitoring and Evaluation
- MoU Memorandum of Understanding
- NAP UNCCD National Action Programme
- NAPA UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action
- NEPAD New Partnership for Africa’s Development
- NREGP Natural Resource and Environmental Governance Program
- NGOs Non-Governmental Organizsations
- NORAD Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
- RECs Regional Economic Communities
- RIOD International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought
- PASDEP Ethiopia’s Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty
- PER Public Expenditure Review
- SADC Southern African Development Community
- SIP Strategic Investment Program for Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
- SDPRP Ethiopia’s Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Program
- SSA Sub-Saharan Africa
- TAEC TerrAfrica Executive Committee
- TLF TerrAfrica Leveraging Fund
- UNCCD UN Convention to Combat Desertification
- UNDP United Nations Development Programme
- UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
- UNFCCC UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
- WB World Bank
- WFP World Food Program