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Guinea plastic country brief

Auteur: World Bank

Guinea is a low-income country in West Africa bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Guinea’s mining sector drives the economy of the nation, particularly gold, bauxite, and diamond mining.  The country comprises seven administrative regions and one gouvenorat and runs a presidential republic system with a parliament.

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Technical Report: West Africa Coastal Areas High‑Level Platform Benefits of Mangrove Afforestation and Restoration Programs in Guinea‑Conakry

Auteur: WACA, World Bank, GPS, NDF, PROBLUE

The objectives of the current study are to estimate the total economic value (TEV) of current mangrove areas in Guinea, considering the whole range of benefits from mangroves; and to use those estimated values in economic cost‑benefit analyses.

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Technical Report: Understanding the Nexus of Mangroves and Women in Guinea-Conakry

Auteur: WACA, World Bank, GPS, NDF, PROBLUE

The objective of the current study is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between women and mangroves and understand the role of women in the use and rehabilitation of mangroves in the Republic of Guinea. 

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Gabon plastic country brief

Auteur: World Bank

Gabon is an upper-middle-income country in West Africa bordered by Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, and the Republic of Congo. According to the United Nations Development Programme, Gabon is one of SubSaharan Africa’s wealthiest nations, due to its petroleum reserves and foreign private investment. 1 The country comprises nine administrative provinces2 and runs a unitary presidential republic system with a parliament.

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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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Bulletin de liaison trimestriel de l’Observatoire Régional du Littoral Ouest Africain (ORLOA)

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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Évaluation des zones côtières d'Afrique de l'Ouest sud du Sénégal 2016

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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Évaluation Afrique de l'Ouest zones côtières Nord du Sénégal 2016

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