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.

Many African countries would also benefit from accessing the World Bank’s full range of finance instruments, which spans grant financing, debt, and equity financing. Technical assistance or grant financing is often required to undertake the analytics and diagnostics needed to identify policy improvements.

Thematic coordination involves identifying common development challenges that require coordinated action across agencies at the national and local level. Climate change adaptation, jobs, and livelihoods are important examples of such shared challenges.

Improving the organization of—and strengthening access to—data and knowledge among governments, the private sector, academia, civil society organizations, financiers, and the public will help generate multisectoral, spatial, and sustainable development insights and attract more financing, including from the private sector and other development partners.

Marine spatial planning can help design coordinated coastal resilience programs at scale and identify possible lowcarbon development and growth pathways. This type of spatial planning can integrate measures articulated in nationally determined contributions and other instruments, budget for those measures, and monitor their progress.

Stronger capacity for sustainable fisheries management could involve working with fish farming communities to adopt climateresilient aquaculture or mariculture, and implementing climate adaptation programs to strengthen the fisheries value chain.

The solutions include promoting a circular economy approach, improving solid waste infrastructure and services, and strong monitoring of plastic pollution for proactive action and removal. For wastewater, the use of practical low-cost technologies, with an emphasis on circular economy approaches, is gaining attention.

Governance also plays an important role. Coastal areas and territorial waters are under the jurisdiction of several agencies that lack sufficient coordination and incentives to improve the management of natural resources. Marine spatial planning is an important tool to improve such governance.

A robust Blue Economy could protect Africa from the worst effects of climate change. At the same time, the effects of climate change are already preventing the continent from achieving the full benefits of a vibrant Blue Economy.