AFR100 2020  African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative AFR100 2020  African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative The African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) has applied to Sida for funding of 20 million SEK to support implementation of the African Landscapes Restoration initiative (AFR100). AFR100 responds to the African Union mandate to bring 100 million hectares of degraded land into restoration by 2030.

This specific intervention aims at supporting the following two areas of work: 1) AFR100 Implementation Monitoring/Tracking Progress System; and 2) AFR100 Land Accelerator program: Empowering Women and Youth Restoration Entrepreneurs.

AUDA-NEPAD will implement the intervention over a period of one year (December 2020 - November 2021) in collaboration with participating African countries, technical and financial partners of AFR100. Sida will commission a systems audit in January 2021 and for this SEK 400 000 will be allocated from 2021 budget. Therefore, the intervention’s total budget will be  SEK 20 400 000  (Swedish Kroner Twenty Million Four Hundred Thousand) and will be covered by Sida. 

Disbursements to AUDA-NEPAD will be made in two installments. First disbursement will be made in December 2020 upon signing of the agreement and the second Disbursement will be made in July 2021. Den afrikanska utvecklingsmyndigheten, African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) har till Sida ansökt om 20 miljoner svenska kronor (20 MSEK) för att stödja genomförandet av det afrikanska landskaps restaurerings initiativet, African Landscapes Restoration Initiative (AFR 100). AFR 100 svarar mot Afrikanska Unionens mandat att restaurera 100 miljoner hektar degraderat land till år 2030.  

Insatsen syfter till att stödja två olika arbetsområden:
1) AFR 100´s genomförande av ett övervaknings- och uppföljningssystem  av restaureringsarbetets utveckling och 2) AFR 100 Land Accelerator program som möjliggör kvinnors och ungdomars företagande inom restaurering. 

AUDA-NAPAD ska genomföra insatsen under ett år (december 2020-november 2021) i samarbete med deltagande afrikanska länder, AFR 100´s tekniska och finansiella partner. Sida kommer att upphandla och genomföra en systemrevision i Januari 2021 och 400 000 SEK kommer att anslås för detta ur 2021- års anslag. Insatsens totala budget är 20,4 miljoner svenska kronor (SEK) (tjugo miljoner fyrahundra tusen svenska kronor) och finansieras av Sida.

Utbetalning av medel kommer att genomföras vid två tillfällen. Den första utbetalningen kommer att genomföras vid avtalets undertecknande  i december 2020 och den andra utbetalningen i juli 2021.

Sveriges ambassad i Addis Abeba kommer att upphandla en systemrevision för AFR 100 under genomförandet  det första kvartalet och för detta tas 400 000 SEK ur 2021- års anslag. AFR100 Goals
AFR100 is an African owned and country-led initiative to restore 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes across Africa by 2030. The Initiative connects participating African countries with technical and financial support to scale up restoration on the ground and capture associated benefits.
It provides a platform for:
1) Coordinating and streamlining Forest Landscapes Restoration (FLR) activities across the continent.
2) Enhancing knowledge exchanges and cross-learning amongst AFR100 Partner Countries and between AFR100 Technical and Financial Partners.
3) Amplifying the impact of FLR activities by encouraging stakeholders to work together in order to realise large-scale FLR in Africa
Objectives of the project under consideration
The proposed Swedish contribution to AFR100 will support two specific areas of work that are presented below.
Work Area 1 - AFR100 Implementation Progress Tracking System
The overarching aim is to establish an AFR100 implementation progress monitoring system which includes an effective and user-friendly tool that facilitates the sustainable generation of data and reports on the progress of AFR100 implementation activities at the national and local levels of participating countries.
Key objectives of the AFR100 implementation progress tracking system include:
1.1 To develop a sound and numerical understanding of institutions/entities working on or supporting AFR100 implementation activities in Africa
1.2 To strengthen the coordination, communication, implementation, monitoring and reporting capabilities of the AFR100 Secretariat
1.3 To generate visualisations and develop a comprehensive mapping of AFR100 activities across the continent as well as opportunities for restoration
1.4 To establish indicators and to develop a sound data collection tool to track progress of AFR100 implementation activities in a systematic and standardized manner, including the collection of information on socio-economic and environmental factors;
1.5 To establish a Progress Tracking Framework defining methodologies of data collection and data analysis across all partner countries as well time frames, required resources and reporting schedule;
1.6 To design a comprehensive and recurrent (with a set periodicity) AFR100 reporting mechanism;
1.7 To become a gateway and point of interface for reliable data for tracking and measuring progress as well as for understanding challenges, opportunities and trajectory of FLR in Africa.  
Work Area 2 - AFR100 Land Accelerator programme: Empowering Women and Youth Restoration Entrepreneurs
Key objectives of the Land Accelerator Program are:
2.1 Empower female and youth entrepreneurs to pitch to impact investors and sell their products more effectively;
2.2 Enhance knowledge and upskill female and youth restoration entrepreneurs to improve access to markets; 
2.3 Encourage women and youth to participate and engage in green and circular economy opportunities.
2.4 Enhance representation and involvement of women and youth in restoration entrepreneurship opportunities in order to raise Africa’s gender and youth profile in green economy ventures.