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Renforcement des capacités pour le contrôle, la gestion et la réduction des déchets plastiques, conformément aux dispositions de la Convention de Bâle
La finalité du projet est une meilleure protection de la santé humaine et de l'environnement contre les effets néfastes des déchets plastiques, en réduisant les quantités de déchets plastiques finissant dans l'environnement au Cap-Vert, au Sénégal et plus globalement dans les pays francophones d'Afrique de l'Ouest (le Bénin, le Burkina Faso, le Tchad, la Côte d'Ivoire, la Guinée, la Guinée-Bissau, le Mali, la Mauritanie, le Niger et le Togo).
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Analysis of the institutional & regulatory framework for plastics/plastic waste management in Ghana
This report presents a comprehensive overview and analysis of the prevailing institutional and regulatory framework for plastics management in Ghana, highlighting both the strengths and challenges identified.
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Market assessment for plastics circularity in Nigeria
This document assesses plastics circularity in Nigeria. Nigeria faces a severe plastic pollution problem, as the nation does not have adequately designed waste disposal channels. Lagos alone generates 8400 metric tons of waste daily and more than 11% of the waste generated consists of plastics.
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Plastic action initiative tracker
This first edition of the biannual Plastic Action Initiative Tracker is intended to serve as a reference point for the many varied and exciting initiatives happening on the ground across Ghana to address plastic waste and pollution.
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Choosing policy instruments: Plastics Policy Simulator (PPS)
The Plastics Policy Simulator (PPS) is the first technologyfinancial model for policy makers to estimate how firms and households will react to various plastic policy instruments and what the costs, revenues, and other impacts of these policies will be before laws are passed or public money is spent. It supports governments, industry, and civil society in search of mutually agreeable policy reforms to enhance plastic circularity and reduce plastic pollution.
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Settings targets: the plastic substitution tradeoff estimator
The Plastic Substitution Tradeoff Estimator compares the costs and benefits of 10 plastics products with up to 4 alternatives that are currently available in the market. It supports informed decision making for target setting.
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Plastics sector competitiveness strategy and action plan for Côte d'Ivoire
This document is based on findings from the first phase of the Invest in Africa Côte d'Ivoire Manufacturing project involving desk review and one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders.
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Plastic waste management expertise mission on the islands of Santa Luzia and São Vicente, Cape Verde
The conservation strategy deployed by Biosfera from 2020 to 2025 includes a component to fight marine plastic pollution. While beach cleaning activities remain essential, Biosfera wishes to strengthen its expertise on the appropriate measures for the collection and disposal measures in Santa Luzia.
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Grand-Lahou: visit to the Bandama River for the stabilization of the sandy beach
WACA Cote d'Ivoire accompanied by pre-selected companies visited to the Bandama River.
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Floods in Senegal, are retention basins part of the solution?
In Dakar, Senegal, floods are major disruptions. Pape Goumba Lo, Geologist discusses solutions.
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Ivory Coast: WACA commits to restore the ecosystem in Grand-Lahou wetlands
In Ivory Coast, WACA commits to restore the ecosystem in Grand-Lahou wetlands.
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The Gambia, Ghana, and Guinea-Bissau join WACA
The World Bank approved $246 million for WACA Resilience Investment Project 2.
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Etude d’impact environnemental et social du projet de protection côtière de l’Ile de Gorée
Le projet de protection côtière de l’île de Gorée revêt deux composantes : l’aménagement d’une digue de protection (bordière) en enrochements et un volet d’aménagements paysagers. Le système de protection retenue consiste en l’aménagement d’une digue de protection (bordière) en enrochements à crête élargie et abaissée, arasée à la cote + 3,1 m CM soit une revanche considérée de la crête, par rapport au niveau Extrême (= + 2,8 m CM), de seulement 0,3 m.
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Etude d’impact environnemental et social du projet de protection côtière de la plage de l’Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar et de l’Anse Bernard
Le WACA ResIP, financé par la Banque Mondiale, d’une durée de 5 ans (2018-2023), ambitionne d’améliorer la gestion des risques naturels et anthropiques communs, en intégrant les changements climatiques, affectant les communautés et les zones côtières de la région d’Afrique de l’Ouest.
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Togo: launch of large-scale works to protect the coastline with Benin
Cross-border works to protect the Togo-Benin coast launched on Thursday, November 3, 2022 in Aného.