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Brochure
West Africa Coastal Areas Executive Summary
Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)
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West Africa Coastal Areas General Document
Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)
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Video
St Louis, Senegal: Coastal Communities Facing Waves of Change
Auteur: World Bank
Saint Louis’s coastal community is losing ground to the ocean each year, and families are losing their possessions, food and homes to coastal erosion, flooding, even breaking waves. But West Africa’s countries are working together, with the support of WACA, to create new solutions to protect the most vulnerable.
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Video
World Bank Econothon: WACA and Blue Economy with Karin Kemper, Director
Auteur: World Bank
WACA was presented as bringing key solutions to coastal resilience by World Bank Director, Karin Kemper (watch starting at 40:00) at a 24 hour Econothon.
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Video
West Africa: Rising Tides Threaten Livelihoods along the Coastline
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Preserving and protecting the coastline along West Africa is critical. A large proportion of West Africa's population lives in areas that are most at risk of coastal erosion, where rising tides threaten their livelihoods and the communities they have built and lived in for generations.
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Living on the Edge: Dovi’s Story
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Dovi Woollens has lived along the coast of Baguida, Togo for her entire life. She makes her living from the sea, by selling fish and seafood in her local community. In recent years, Dovi has struggled to make ends meet because fish are no longer as plentiful, and it’s harder to have a good catch. All along the coast of West Africa, fishermen and women like Dovi face similar threats to their livelihood. They are on the frontlines of climate change, coastal erosion and pollution.
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Video
Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg: The Dire Threat of Climate Change
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Climate Change and Ocean Systems specialist, Professor Ove Hoegh-Gulderg, conveys his regret for being unable to attend the Blue Economy Conference in Mauritius. He emphasizes the important of urgent global action on climate change and ocean conservation to prevent a disastrous loss of ocean habit that will have very damaging consequences to people and the environment. The ocean is essential for life on earth, and supports millions of species and billions of people.
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Video
Living on the Edge: Saving West Africa Coastal Assets
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
The communities who have lived on West Africa’s coastal areas for centuries are at the greatest risk of climate change. As sea levels rise, and severe weather events increase in frequency due to climate change, the safety and wellbeing of coastal communities is at peril, with poor and marginalized populations proving most vulnerable. Without concrete measures to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change, West Africa’s development achievements, as well as hopes for continued growth and poverty reduction, will be severely compromised.
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Brochure
From Shared Coastal Vision to Sustainable Reality
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
West Africa’s coastal areas host an abundance of natural resources, on land and at sea, that provides vital ecosystem services and help buffer against severe weather events.
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Knowledge Sheets
Improving Data and Information for Decision Making
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Making evidence-based decisions regarding coastal environments, infrastructure, and natural resources and their interaction with people requires accurate data. Because of the nature of coastal phenomena and their impacts on livelihoods and the environment, integrated systems that collect and share data regionally and focus on coastal areas and marine conditions, land use, climate patterns, and natural hazards are needed.
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Video
From A Shared Vision of the Coast Toward A Sustainable Reality
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
All along the West African coast, communities are starting to preserve and protect their shared coastal resources and work towards enhancing resilience. The WACA Program fosters scaled up investments to solve coastal problems while encouraging regional cooperation and planning.
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Infographic
Saving West Africa’s Coastal Assets
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
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Video
Erosion, floods and pollution are costly to West Africa
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Madji (left) spent her childhood on the beaches of Bargny Guedj, Senegal, but her grandfather's house where she stayed as a child no longer exists today, carried away by the waves.Thousands of people living along the coasts of West Africa share the same story as Madji. Beyond the shattered lives, this harsh consequence of erosion, pollution and floods is very expensive in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Togo.
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2019 Private Sector Communique
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
Dialogue with private sector: How can the private sector be more involved in the implementation of actions to strengthen the resilience of the West African coastal zone in the face of climate change??
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WACA News | October 2019
Auteur: West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA)
A summary of different activities and initiatives from WACA and partners.
