Republic of MaliAbout the MERIT Project
« Strengthening resilience to the effects of climate change »
Co-financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the Global Environmental Fund (GEF), the « Multi-Energy for Resilience and Integrated Land Management (MERIT) » project primarily targets smallholders (farmers, livestock breeders, agro-pastoralists), men, women and young people, considered to be the group most vulnerable to climate change.
The project intends to support resilience and promote the use of renewable energies (dissemination of the greenhouse gas (GHG)-efficient nexus at the household level but also through land management (access to water groundwater, sustainable management of market gardening).
MERIT will strengthen the climate resilience of ecosystems by promoting low-emission energy sources. It will benefit more than 42,000 households, or about 420,000 indirect beneficiaries in its area of intervention, including at least 50% women and 30% young people.
Overall objective
Contribute to improving food and nutrition security, reducing poverty and building climate resilience.
Specific objective
Promote the resilience of production systems in order to promote a sustainable improvement in soil productivity.
The MERIT Project focuses on the Sudanian and Sudano-Guinean zones, characterized by a rainfall of more than 600 mm per year.
The project will cover ASAP/PAPAM’s area of intervention in the south of the Kayes and Sikasso regions, and will expand its intervention within these two regions (new municipalities of intervention) as well as in the regions of Koulikoro and Segou.
