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Brochure
Multi-Sectoral Investment Plan for Côte d'Ivoire
Author: Mr. Cédric A. LOMBARDO, Project Coordinator, Director of BeDevelopment
The target area of the WACA Grand Lahou project is the Bandama estuary in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. It is located on the center of the south coast of the country, on the Gulf of Guinea, at the mouth of the Bandama River.
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Publication
Erosion côtière : L’hydre qui ne cesse d’engloutir les côtes sénégalaises
Author: 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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Publication
Communiqué de presse WACA en Côte d’Ivoire : Cinq comités de gestion des plaintes installés et opérationnels dans la zone de Grand Lahou
Author: WACA Cote d'Ivoire
Une étape importante dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du Projet d’Investissement pour la Résilience des Zones côtières en Afrique en Côte d’Ivoire (WACA ResiP) vient d’être franchie avec l’installation du 22 au 28 mars 2020, de 5 Comités Locaux du Mécanisme de Gestion des Plaintes (MGP) dans le département de Grand-Lahou, zone pilote du projet WACA. Il s’agit des Comités Locaux de gestion des plaintes des villages de Lahou-Kpanda, de Groguida, de Likpiliassié, de Braffedon et du Comité Communal de gestion des plaintes de Grand- Lahou.
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Publication
Observatoire du littoral ouest Africain (ORLOA) (Extrait de la note d’orientation)
Author: 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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Publication
Ministerial Communique on the Occasion of the WACA Program Launch of November 2018
Author: 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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Video
Ministerial Visit in Support of WACA Resip Actions
Author: 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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Publication
São Tome e Príncipe: WACA Promotes Safe Port Operations
Author: WACA Sao Tome
Safety and profit are crucial in ports operations. In São Tome e Príncipe, WACA is boosting the capacity of the National Meteorological Institute of São Tomé e Príncipe (INM-STP) to provide to ports up-to-date meteorological services to reduce risks.
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Côte d’Ivoire plastic country brief
Author: World Bank
Côte d’Ivoire is a lower-middle-income country in West Africa bordered by Liberia, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. As the economic hub of Francophone West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire is one of the world’s fastest-growing economies and remains the globe’s leading producer and exporter of cocoa beans and cashew nuts. 1 The country comprises 12 administrative districts and 2 district-level autonomous cities2 and runs a unitary presidential republic system with a parliament.
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Togo plastic country brief
Author: 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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Publication
Sierra Leone plastic country brief
Author: World Bank
Sierra Leone is a low-income country in West Africa bordered by Guinea and Liberia. Its economy is driven by mining activities, with its principal exports being iron ore, diamonds, and rutile. The country is divided into four provinces and one administrative area and runs a unitary presidential republic system.
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Publication
Cameroon plastic country brief
Author: World Bank
Cameroon is a lower-middle-income country in West Africa bordered by Nigeria, Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea. The country is endowed with rich natural resources such as fossil fuel reserves, minerals, high-value species of timber, and agricultural products. Cameroon is a unitary state divided into 10 administrative regions, each with an elected regional council and runs a unitary presidential republic system with a parliament.
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Publication
São Tomé and Príncipe plastic country brief
Author: World Bank
São Tomé and Príncipe is a lower middle-income small island state 350 km off the coast of West Africa1 . It has a small agrarian economy highly dependent on the exportation of cocoa beans2 . São Tomé and Príncipe is divided into 6 administrative districts and runs a semi-presidential republic system.
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Publication
Déclaration finale Dakar, le 17 juin 2022
Author: 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
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Video
São Tomé and Príncipe: We need physical and social investments to reduce vulnerabilities
Author: by Arlindo de Carvalho, WACA Coordinator São Tomé and Príncipe
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Two schools were built by the WACA Project in São Tomé and Príncipe
Author: by Arlindo de Carvalho, WACA Coordinator São Tomé and Príncipe
Two schools were built by the WACA project in Sao Tomé and Príncipe and opened by the country's government authorities.