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