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Assesment 2016 West Africa Coastal Areas Togo

Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)

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Assessment 2016 West Africa Coastal Areas Togo

Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)

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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.

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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Ministerial Visit in Support of WACA Resip Actions

Auteur: WACA Program

On December 31, 2020, a field visit by the Minister of Environment and Forest Resources, Mr. FOLI-BAZI Katari, and his counterpart, the Minister of Maritime Economy, Fisheries and Coastal Protection, Mr. TENGUE Edem Kokou, allowed them to get acquainted with the realities of the people living in the coastal areas. 

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Togo plastic country brief

Auteur: World Bank

Togo is a low-income country in West Africa bordered by Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Benin. Although Togo’s poverty rate fell from 61.7 percent in 2006 to 53.5 percent in 2017, poverty and inequality remain extremely high, especially in rural areas where 69 percent of households were living below the poverty line in 2015. The country is divided into five administrative regions and runs a unitary presidential republic system with a parliament.

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The Gambia plastic country brief

Auteur: World Bank

The Gambia is a low-income country in West Africa which, with the exception of the Gulf of Guinea, is bordered by Senegal. The Gambia’s economy is dependent on agriculture and tourism, normally accounting for approximately 33 percent and 20 percent of GDP, respectively. Administratively, The Gambia is divided into five regions, one municipality, and one city (Banjul) and runs a presidential republic system with a parliament.

Brochure

Quarterly West African Regional Coastal Observatory (WARCO) Newsletter

Auteur: UEMOA, WACA, World Bank, FFEM, UICN

The quarterly West African Regional Coastal Observatory (WARCO) newsletter is created and published on the collaborative platform expertises. 

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Assessment 2016 West Africa Coastal Areas SENEGAL SOUTH

Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)

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Assessment 2016 West Africa Coastal Areas SENEGAL North

Auteur: The West African Monetary and Economic Union (UEMOA)

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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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Erosion côtière : L’hydre qui ne cesse d’engloutir les côtes sénégalaises

Auteur: Quoi de vert magazine

Quoi de Vert is a magazine specialized in Senegal on sustainable development. This edition focuses on coastal resilience with a series of stories and WACA featured as a key program in building coastal resilience.

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Observatoire du littoral ouest Africain (ORLOA) (Extrait de la note d’orientation)

Auteur: Centre de suivi ecologique

L'érosion du littoral, ainsi que les risques de submersion des côtes, constituent un sujet de plus en plus préoccupant pour les communes et les populations littorales ouest africaines, compte-tenu de l’augmentation des enjeux environnementaux, socio-économiques dans des zones soumises à des aléas naturels récurrents dans un contexte de changement climatique.

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Ministerial Communique on the Occasion of the WACA Program Launch of November 2018

Auteur: WACA Program

Considering that the coastal zones of West Africa and beyond contain most of the region’s capital cities, that they account for more than one third of the region’s gross domestic product, and are home to more than one third of its population and likely more than half by 2050.

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Déclaration finale Dakar, le 17 juin 2022

Auteur: Monsieur Amadou Lamine GUISSE Secrétaire Général du Ministère de l’Environnement et du Développement Durable du Sénégal

Réunion des ministres et autorités chargées de l'environment sur la gestion des zones côtières et marine, la biodiversité et les aires protegées