Pro-ARIDES aims to contribute to increased resilience, food security and incomes of agricultural and (agro-) pastoral households in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, through effective decentralized institutions and organizations for service delivery , natural resource and land management and local economic development.
Focus is on strengthening social protection systems and on policy advocacy work at global level. It also includes support to agricultural research for development and people centred land governance with specific emphasis on securing equitable tenure rights of women, indigenous populations and pastoralist communities