This transnational bypassing scheme will be principally funded through a public-private pooled dredging fund financed by the port operators/authorities and other involved in port and coastal operation.

Port developments around the world, West Africa included, often impact the coastal environment, posing challenges like erosion and degradation of environment with negative socio-economic implications.

With BESand, the Blue Energy Sand-Bypass System, IMDC offers a UNIQUE, INNOVATIVE and FEASIBLE solution to fight coastal erosion associated with the ongoing development of large commercial ports. In many cases port infrastructure intersects the littoral drift, which leads to erosion downdrift. 

Coastal Protect Africa’s multi-purpose technology will have a clear and measurable reduction in coastal erosion, and is implementable within a 2-3 year timeframe. Highly scalable to other coasts in WACA countries of interest and beyond, CoastalProtect Africa will deliver much needed socio-economic and environmental co-benefits.

ROOT relies on affordable materials, production processes and deployment methodologies to empower and involve local communities in the production, deployment, maintenance and management of the infrastructure.

Coastal Preservation & Ecological Water Intake is specialized in the installation of dewatering systems under the beach to: fight against erosion or use sea water as a local resource for air-conditioning, feed fish farms.

This is in coordination with the Spanish National Research Center (ICM-CSIC), proposed to improve water quality: the use of zeolites as a natural treatment for drinking water and the creation of cleaning brigades to collect the debris from the natural environment.

Together with the Dutch government (Rijkswaterstaat) IHC established an innovation partnership focused on the reduction of emissions of coastal protection works, while maintaining cost-efficient price levels.

Our proposal is also a true, sustainable and innovative way of a Nature Based coastal-protection Solution (NBS). A method to re-establish lost coastal-ecosystems & biodiversity, both above and below water and a transparent solution of true value-creation for coastal citizens, generating socio-economic benefits of ecosystem goods and services, including: seafood, building materials, herbal medicines, nutrient recycling, carbon storage & uptake, pollution filtering, reducing social unjustice and bringing new and rewarding employment, requiring new skills for the coastal-communities, in a way never ever before designed and realised by men anywhere.

NIRAS has prepared an innovative idea and a well-defined programme with a clear purpose of elaborating Shoreline Management Planning (SMP) Guidelines for each member state engaging all key stakeholders in a participatory SMP process.

Exploring engineering and social coherence, vitalizing coastal societies by the establishment of an information sharing platform and incentive system and utilizing cutting edge technologies such as the latest space technology.

The SLAMDAM-technology, developed in The Netherlands, is an innovative and low-cost technological solution to enhance resilience against floods. The product is a mobile emergency barrier, which can easily be deployed when there is a threat of flooding. The same technology can also be used to store water and other fluids vapor tight to improve access to water in times of drought.

The objective of SharIn@SEA is to share interdisciplinary good practices towards an international community of specialists by providing case studies based on real situations, and analyzed through a common foundation of interdisciplinary knowledge.

Coastal environmental assesment combining technologies and environmental expertise to transform data into information over the time.

The Implant Structure consists of robust and durable structural members which are firmly embedded into the ground by the Press-in Method.

In order to limit unwanted coastal erosion, BRL Ingénierie has developed a unique know-how in design and supervision of works of sand filled geocontainers.

This innovation enables concrete measures to clean waterways of plastic, oil and plants.