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Environment
Reforestation and agroforestry with native species, land restoration and soil conservation — reversing degradation across the landscapes that livelihoods depend on.
Africa Recovery Initiative
Rebuilding Stability. Restoring Capacity.
A civil society initiative that supports conflict-affected communities through practical recovery programs — strengthening local institutions, linking the restoration of ecological balance with the provision of vital services, and empowering communities to lead their own recovery.
Civil society initiative · Integrated recovery · Sudan · Somalia · Chad
What We Do
Six fields of work, one integrated system.
ARI does not treat recovery as a set of parallel tracks. Environmental stabilisation protects livelihoods, which sustains community engagement, which strengthens institutions, which improves service delivery.
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Water
Community water management, groundwater wells, livestock water points and small-scale irrigation that reduce competition over a scarce and contested resource.
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Energy
Solar systems that keep water points, clinics and schools functioning in areas the grid does not reach.
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Health
Rehabilitating clinics, equipping facilities and training frontline staff so that basic care is available — and equitably accessible across all community groups.
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Education
School rehabilitation, learning materials and teacher training to restore safe and effective learning environments.
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Training
Vocational and technical skills, pastoral and agricultural training, and capacity building for local councils and civil society organisations.
Our Targets
The scale we are building toward.
The figures below are the full-scale targets of ARI's flagship Integrated Pastoral Forest Project in North Kordofan, to be delivered across three phases between 2027 and 2030.
Full-scale project targets · not completed achievements
- 500,000
- Trees to be established
- 20,000
- Hectares of rangeland restored
- 100,000
- People reached
- 168,000
- Tonnes of CO₂e sequestered
- 100
- Kilometres of grazing corridors
- 40
- Groundwater wells
- 50
- Livestock water points
- 50,000
- Head of livestock supported
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Put your support into action.
Choose the area of recovery you want to support. Every contribution is completed securely through ARI's donation page.
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Environment & livelihoods
Demo dataIntegrated Pastoral Forest Project
Help establish native trees, restore rangeland, protect grazing corridors and strengthen pastoral livelihoods in North Kordofan.
RaisedUS$ 8,250
- Goal
- US$ 25,000
- Donors
- 146
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Water & clean energy
Demo dataWater & Energy Access
Support groundwater wells and solar systems that keep clean water, clinics and schools operating where the grid does not reach.
RaisedUS$ 6,480
- Goal
- US$ 18,000
- Donors
- 92
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Essential services
Demo dataService & Institutional Recovery
Help rehabilitate clinics and schools, equip facilities and build the local capacity needed to keep essential services running.
RaisedUS$ 4,920
- Goal
- US$ 15,000
- Donors
- 78
Current Projects
What we are building now
Flagship · Design complete
Integrated Pastoral Forest Project
An initiative in line with the Great Green Wall project for the Sahel and Horn of Africa, our project will be implemented in North Kordofan, Sudan, Somalia and Chad, where 500,000 trees will be planted on an area of 20,000 hectares, in three phases between 2027 and 2030.
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Programme line · In design
Water & Energy Access
Well drilling paired with solar energy so that thousands of people gain reliable access to clean water, and the facilities that depend on it keep running. The intended outcome is a measurable reduction in water-borne disease alongside community-managed water governance.
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Programme line · In design
Service & Institutional Recovery
Rehabilitating clinics and schools, equipping them, and rebuilding the local administrative capacity needed to keep them running — delivered equitably across community groups so that restored services reduce grievances rather than reinforce them.
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Our Partners
Recovery is built with others, not for them.
ARI works through four categories of partnership, each governed by clear agreements that define roles, responsibilities and accountability mechanisms.
Local civil society
Implementing partners with community legitimacy and real operational reach on the ground.
Government coordination
Alignment with ministries — including the Ministry of Forests — ensuring policy coherence, scale, and programme continuity.
Researchers and experts
Contextual evidence for adaptive design, conflict analysis, and monitoring.
Development partners
Flexible, multi-year funding that bridges humanitarian relief and durable recovery.
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Join a coordinated, long-term effort.
ARI invites development partners, donors, researchers and local civil society to join a coordinated, long-term effort to reconnect people, institutions and landscapes.
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