During the Kumasi workshop held from February 10-14, 2020 with the Theme of ” Scaling-Up Resilience in Africa’s Great Green Wall (SURAGGWA): Capacity development and programming workshop with project formulation team” National Experts from nine NGARA member countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and South Sudan and Regional experts on Trade and Markets of gum arabic joined experts on other value chains (on germplasm and other NTFPs) to be trained on the use of the EX-ACT tool on value chain, gender and poverty/vulnerability analysis, among others.