Salima Mahamoudou is the West and Central Africa Lead at the World Resources Institute (WRI). She defines WRI’s restoration strategy for francophone and Sahelian Africa and future WRI-AFR100 engagement in dryland Africa. Salima plays a major role in advancing technical land restoration work, and government engagement in Francophone and Sahelian AFR100 countries, with the main focal countries including Niger and Cameroon.