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The Sahel faces mounting human security
and development challenges due to the
complex interplay of diverse and growing
risks in the region, including climate change,
environmental degradation, food and
livelihoods insecurity, weak governance
capacity, conflict and violence, and
displacement. To reach the crisis prevention
and resilience goals set out in the UN
Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS)
and break away from chronic patterns of
crisis, we must galvanize existing potential in
the region. Decision-making must be better
equipped with forward-looking analysis
based on integrated data and evidence that
incorporates the region’s major, cross-cutting
issues and trends. Crisis prevention and
resilience building is a shared responsibility
that demands a wide range of expertise and
collaboration across academic, policy and
operational actors relevant to humanitarian
action, development and peacebuilding. This
includes the sharing of data and a range of
methodological approaches that provide
insight into the complexity of the Sahel as a
foundational first step. For this reason, the
inter-agency, inter-pillar Sahel Predictive
Analytics project was established, from which
this report has been produced.
