SaRCiSP is TG's internal restoration intelligence and forecasting tool for the GGW Sahel programme. It translates official restoration claims into evidence-adjusted figures and allows structured investment forecasting.
Accounting Bases
Official - the reported figure from government or GGW authority sources, unadjusted. Conservative - applies evidence and durability discounts only. TG/SBI Adjusted - applies evidence, definition alignment, and durability factors together. Verified - meets all required evidence gates including field verification and durability window.
Adjustment Formula
Adjusted ha = Reported ha × Evidence Factor × Definition Alignment Factor × Durability Factor
Forecasting
Forecasts are conditional estimates. Gross ha shows what investment could theoretically cover. Functional ha applies method adherence, establishment, durability, access, and maintenance factors. All forecasts require the standard caveat.
About SaRCiSP
SaRCiSP is a long-horizon development programme spanning West Africa, with an initial focus on the Sahel and the member countries of the Great Green Wall (GGW). It is designed as a scalable implementation framework, multilateral across host countries, that advances municipality by municipality while remaining aligned with national and regional development priorities.
Municipalities serve as the programme's primary operating units, while national governments play an important enabling role in creating the conditions for long-term investment and implementation.
The objective for each municipality is to be:
Visible to funders
Verifiable in delivery
Financeable
Connected into value chains that absorb capital responsibly
The challenge in Sahel resilience and circular-systems work is not only a lack of capital. Too often, the real gap is the absence of trusted systems through which funders can understand how their capital will be deployed and verify outcomes with confidence.
SaRCiSP closes that gap by providing the institutional and digital infrastructure needed for funders to model expected outcomes before committing capital and to verify delivery throughout implementation.
The municipality is the principal unit through which SaRCiSP operates. The programme strengthens both individual municipalities and the relationships between neighbouring ones. Its guiding question is empirical: how little catalytic capital is required to initiate a self-reinforcing cycle of municipal development.
That cycle compounds as catalytic capital enables infrastructure and circular-economy investments. The resulting activity strengthens institutional capacity and attracts further investment over time.
The compounding effect from this cycle depends on continuity in implementation and governance. In the SaRCiSP model, continuity is supported by TG's in-house decision infrastructure, CSGF, and the systematic application of shared operational standards.
Work at the Municipal Level
Dryland restoration
Food system resilience
Resource valorization (material recovery and reuse)
Water stewardship
Cooling islands and biodiversity networks
Education and public-awareness campaigns
Energy infrastructure (where applicable)
Digital infrastructure for decision-making and municipal administration
SaRCiSP is designed to mobilize external capital while minimizing direct fiscal burden. Municipalities drive projects from inception to implementation, while national governments are invited to collaborate wherever their participation can accelerate delivery.
In particular, sovereign guarantees and other credit-enhancement mechanisms can unlock substantially larger pools of blended and institutional capital for municipal infrastructure than would otherwise be available through direct public expenditure alone.
The Funding Opportunity
Capital can support:
Municipal verification and digital onboarding
Technical assistance and field implementation
Value-chain readiness and market access
Credit-enhancement structures that reduce risk and unlock future municipal-scale investment
The systems and institutional infrastructure needed to support long-term municipal financing
Data Sources
Restoration data is entered by TG/SBI analysts from publicly available national GGW programme reports. Regional data for Senegal and Burkina Faso is supplemented by ANSD 2023 (Senegal) and INSD 2024 (Burkina Faso) population figures. Security constraint ratings are from ACAPS. Boundaries from GADM.
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Use the Accounting tab to review current restoration status. Click any region to inspect evidence, constraints, and accounting records. Use the Forecasting tab to build investment scenarios. Add measures, select regions, choose an intervention package and assumption set. Save completed forecasts as Strategy Drafts.
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Lifecycle Leakage – Help
What this view is
The Lifecycle Leakage view maps where value, material, integrity, coordination, and capital leak out of Senegal's plant-based food chains. It supports the CFSI-Senegal Complementarity Mapping Exercise.
How to read the matrix
Each row is a candidate value chain (or institutional module). Each column is one of five leakage categories. Each cell shows a severity rating and a short note explaining the current working hypothesis. Click any cell to edit the severity and the note.
High – significant leakage observed or strongly indicated.
Medium – meaningful leakage; needs further evidence.
Low – limited leakage in this category for this chain.
Unknown / Not assessed – placeholder; not evaluated yet.
The five leakage categories
Value – value lost economically (sold too early, processed too little, weak market channels).
Material – organic side streams, residues, by-products leaving productive circulation.
Integrity – quality, traceability, preservation, safety, market confidence deteriorating between production and end use.
Coordination – public agencies, operators, producers acting in separate mandates without a shared lifecycle view.
Capital – viable interventions remain unfunded because they aren't structured for grants, blended finance, DFI, or private capital.
Source: TG-PDN-1121 (Circular Food Systems Initiative Project Overview, e1.0v1.4).
Programme Interface – Help
What is PRSA/FSRP?
PRSA/FSRP (Programme de Résilience du Système Alimentaire / Food System Resilience Programme) is Senegal's national food-system programme. It mobilises 25+ national technical agencies across agriculture, livestock, environment, research, meteorology, planning, finance, and rural development.
What are the Components?
PRSA/FSRP is structured into Components, each addressing different aspects of the food system. CFSI-Senegal engages with two specifically:
Component 2 – landscape management, productive-base resilience, agricultural innovation. Secondary relevance for CFSI (downstream implications on value chains and recovery).
Component 3 – regional food-market integration, strategic value chains, food reserves, modern agri-food farms for community agricultural cooperatives (CACs). Primary engagement zone – directly creates interfaces with post-harvest continuity, storage, processing, value retention, and recovery.
CFSI's role is complementarity, not duplication: identify and reduce lifecycle leakage that PRSA/FSRP does not already address.
What is a CAC?
A Community Agricultural Cooperative is a Senegalese cooperative structure supported by PRSA/FSRP as the institutional base for modern agri-food farms in Component 3. The CAC-linked Circular Food Module is flagged as the strongest pilot entry point because it slots into existing CAC infrastructure rather than introducing new institutional structures.
Source: TG-STR-1021 (CFSI-Senegal Complementarity and Pilot Definition Note).
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SaRCiSP – Help
SaRCiSP is a long-horizon municipal development programme for the Sahel and the Great Green Wall. This landing lists its country instances and the shared building blocks they draw on.
Country instances
Each card opens a country's workspace. Senegal is the furthest along; the other instances run on the shared models until their own data is gathered. The chip on each card shows its stage, from under planning to under development.
Shared
Templates holds the reusable interventions that every instance and model draws on.
Senegal – Help
This workspace gathers the applications for the Senegal instance of SaRCiSP.
Applications
The Municipal Development Model examines a single municipality and reads how little catalytic capital it takes to trigger a self-reinforcing cycle. Programme Allocation distributes a finite envelope across many municipalities on performance.
Building blocks
Fleets groups intervention placements that share one budget across communes.
Country instance – Help
Each country instance offers the same applications as Senegal. It runs on the shared models until the country's own geographic data is in place, shown by the status chip.
Applications
The Municipal Development Model examines a single municipality and its catalytic threshold. Programme Allocation distributes a finite envelope across many municipalities on performance.
Templates – Help
Templates are the reusable interventions that every country instance and model draws on.
What a template carries
Each template holds default parameters, and every parameter is tagged by where its value comes from, so the template carries its own confidence profile.
Editing
Add or edit templates and their parameters here. A change flows forward to new instances; it does not rewrite interventions already placed.
SaRCiSP is a long-horizon development programme for the Sahel and the Great Green Wall, advancing municipality by municipality. Its guiding question is empirical: how little catalytic capital is needed to start a self-reinforcing cycle of municipal development.
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Countries
Senegal
Under development
The Senegal instantiation, advancing municipality by municipality.
Benin
Under development
Minimal instantiation of the SaRCiSP applications.
India
Under development
Minimal instantiation of the SaRCiSP applications.
Burkina Faso
Under planning
Minimal instantiation of the SaRCiSP applications.
Iraq
Under planning
Minimal instantiation of the SaRCiSP applications.
Shared
Templates
Shared, reusable interventions with default parameters, used across instantiations.
Senegal
Applications
Municipal Development Model
How little capital triggers a self-reinforcing cycle of municipal improvement, commune by commune.
Programme Allocation
Distribute a finite investment envelope across communes on performance, predictably.
Building Blocks
Fleets
Shared-budget groupings of intervention placements across communes.
A minimal instantiation of the SaRCiSP applications. It runs on the shared models until this country's own data is gathered.
Applications
Municipal Development Model
How little capital triggers a self-reinforcing cycle of municipal improvement, commune by commune.
Programme Allocation
Distribute a finite investment envelope across communes on performance, predictably.
Intervention Templates
Reusable interventions with default parameters. Every parameter is tagged by where its value comes from, so each template carries its own confidence profile.
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TG/SBI Adjusted
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Accounting data shown with basis:TG/SBI Adjusted. Figures are estimates based on available evidence. No independent field verification has been conducted at scale.
Lifecycle Leakage – Senegal
Where value, material, integrity, coordination, and capital leak from plant-based food chains. Cells populated as the CFSI-Senegal Complementarity Mapping Exercise progresses. Severity ratings are working hypotheses, not verified figures.
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Integrity
Coordination
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Forecast outputs are conditional estimates based on selected assumptions, evidence confidence, and implementation factors. They do not represent verified restoration outcomes.
Forecasting
Scenario modelling for one chain at a time – storage capacity, processing throughput, recovery pathways, value retention – with projected reduction in each leakage category.
Coming after the leakage matrix is populated
Forecasting requires a baseline. Once the Accounting matrix has verified figures for the chosen value chain, scenarios can be modelled and compared.
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Pilot Drafts
A pilot is selected only when all six pilot-readiness conditions are met. This view tracks each candidate draft against those conditions.
