UNEP Projects in Senegal - GRID Africa GeoPortal - UNEP

UNEP Projects in SenegalDGEF supported projectsSingle Country ProjectsCountry Project Name Region Focal Area Agency Project TypeGEF Grant(US$M)ProjectStageSenegalNational Adaptation ProgramClimateEnablingAFR UNEP 0.195 CEOof Action Change Activity ApprovedSenegalEnabling activities for theStockholm Convention onPersistent Organic Pollutants:National Implementation Planfor SenegalAFRPersistentOrganicPollutants(POPs)UNEPEnabling0.495 CEOActivity ApprovedRegional and Global ProjectsCountry Project Name Region Focal Area Agency Project TypeGEF Grant(US$M)ProjectStageRegionalDemonstration of a RegionalApproach to EnvironmentallySound Management of PCBLiquid Wastes andTransformers and CapacitorsContaining PCBsAFRPersistentOrganicPollutants(POPs)UNEPFull SizeProject6.000 PipelineRegionalBuilding Scientific andTechnical Capacity forEffective Management andSustainable Use of DrylandBiodiversity in West AfricanBiosphere ReservesAFR Biodiversity UNEPFull SizeProject2.750 CEOEndorsedRegionalReducing Dependence onPOPs and other Agro-Chemicals in the Senegal andNiger River Basins throughIntegrated Production, Pestand Pollution ManagementAFRPersistentOrganicPollutants(POPs)UNEPFull Size4.478 CouncilProject ApprovedRegionalRegionalRegionalDesert Margins ProgrammeFull SizeAFR Biodiversity UNEP 5.366 Pipeline(DMP) Phase 3 ProjectDesert Margins ProgrammeFull SizeAFR Biodiversity UNEP 5.617 CEO(DMP) Tranche 2 Project EndorsedDesert Margin Programme,Full SizeAFR Biodiversity UNEP 5.352 CEOPhase 1 Project EndorsedRegionalProtection of the CanaryCurrent Large MarineEcosystem (LME)AFRInternationalFull SizeUNEP 5.340 PDF BWaters ProjectRegionalEnhancing Conservation of theCritical Network of Sites ofWetlands Required byMigratory Waterbirds on theAfrican/Eurasian Flyways.REG Biodiversity UNEPFull SizeProject6.350 CEOEndorsed

RegionalFouta Djallon HighlandsIntegrated Natural ResourcesManagement Project (FDH-INRM) (Tranches 1 and 2)AFRLandFull SizeUNEP 11.554 CouncilDegradation Project ApprovedRegionalReduction of EnvironmentalImpact from Coastal Tourismthrough Introduction of PolicyChanges and StrengtheningPublic-Private PartnershipsAFRInternationalFull SizeUNEP 6.000 PDF BWaters ProjectGlobalPromoting Best Practices forConservation and SustainableUse of Biodiversity of GlobalSignificance in Arid and SemiaridZonesCEX Biodiversity UNEPMedium SizeProject0.750 CEOApprovedGlobalCountry Case Studies onSources and Sinks ofGreenhouse GasesCEXClimateChangeUNEPEnablingActivity4.700 CouncilApprovedDetails of the DGEF Supported projectsBuilding Scientific and Technical Capacity for Effective Management and Sustainable Use ofDryland Biodiversity in West African Biosphere Reserves-• 1 June to 28 May 2007• Objective: "The goal of the project is to conserve and sustainably use biodiversity in six biospherereserves in West Africa, by strengthening scientific and technical capacity for effective reservemanagement. This targeted intervention will complement existing investments and projects within thereserves. The project will improve understanding of interactions between local communities andsavanna ecosystems, identify and promote sustainable use of biodiversity in pilot demonstrations,strengthen stakeholder capacity at all levels, and more effectively integrate stakeholders into themanagement of each biosphere reserve. The project will make use of the African Network of BiosphereReserves, AfriMAB, and, in particular, the sub-regional AfriMAB network for West Africa fortechnical and scientific information exchange, capacity building, and sharing of lessons learned."Countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia, Niger, Nigeria, SenegalEnabling activities to facilitate the preparation of a National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPAs) forSenegal• 1 November 2003 to February 2005• The project will support preparation of a national adaptation program of action (NAPA) to addressurgent and immediate needs and concerns related to adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change.Desert Margins Programme (DMP)-• 1 January to 1 January 2008• Objectives : Develop a better understanding of the causes, extent, severity and physical processes ofland degradation in traditional crop, tree, and livestock production systems in the desert margins, andthe impact, relative importance, and relationship between natural and human factors; Document andevaluate current indigenous soil, water, nutrient, vegetation, and livestock management practices forarresting land degradation and to identify socio-economic constraints to the adoption of improvedmanagement practices; Develop and foster improved and integrated soil, water, nutrient, vegetation, and

livestock management technologies and policies to achieve greater productivity of crops, trees, andanimals to enhance food security, income generation, and ecosystem resilience in the desert margins;Evaluate the impact and assist in designing policies, programs, and institutional options that influencethe incentives for farmers and communities to adopt improved resource management practices; Promotemore efficient drought-management policies and strategies; Enhance the institutional capacity ofcountries participating in the DMP to undertake land degradation research and the extension ofimproved technologies, with particular regard to multidisciplinary and participative socio-economicresearch; Facilitate the exchange of technologies and information among farmers, communities,scientists, development practitioners, and policymakers.• Executive Summary: The Desert Margins Programme (DMP) is a collaborative venture among multilayerpartners from nine African countries: Burkina Faso, Botswana, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal,Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe to integrate different disciplines and combine of farmers/resourceusers’ contemporary knowledge, research and development efforts for arresting and reversing landdegradation. The programme execution is coordinated by ICRISAT. DMP was developed in response toa recommendation made to the international research community at UNCED to consider specificcontributions for implementation of the three International Conventions on Biodiversity, ClimateChange, and Desertification. The goal of DMP is to contribute to sustainable food security and povertyalleviation through activities that conserve and restore biodiversity and reverse degradation processes inmanaged landscapes. The overall objective of DMP is to promote innovative and action-orienteddryland management research to arrest land degradation in Africa’s desert margins throughdemonstration and capacity building activities. DMP is envisaged to contribute significantly to reducingland degradation in the marginal areas and help conserve biodiversity, and at the same time providealternative livelihoods to the rural communities.• Outcome: Sub-regional, National and local capacity building Emphasis will be placed on: -reinforcement of national capacities to carefully monitor climate, soil, vegetation and livestock trendsand dynamics; - standardization of methodologies to ensure data quality; - building effectivepartnership of national (NGOs, rural communities, CBOs), regional and international institutions tocreate a continuum from identification, testing to extension and adoption of technologies for arrestingbiodiversity loss and promoting its sustainable use - building capacity of stakeholders in land useplanning. The GEF increment will enhance stakeholders’ awareness and skills in natural resourcemanagement and strengthen community involvement in natural resource management leading to moreeffective biodiversity conservation and reduction in natural resource degradation.Biodiversity Conservation through Participatory Rehabilitation of Degraded Lands of Arid & Semi-Arid Transboundary Areas of Mauritania & Senegal• 1 September 2001 to 28 October 2005• Objective: "The project addresses the root causes of biodiversity loss from land degradation in the fivecritical, upland and floodplain ecosystems of a 60,000 km2 portion of the trans-border Senegal RiverValley in Senegal and Mauritania. The project will improve on techniques for rehabilitating the naturalecosystems of these degraded lands. It will develop and apply participatory resource managementsystems, especially those that generate resource-based income and consequent economic incentives forsustainable management. Fire prevention and suppression of fire-sensitive ecosystems will bestrengthened. Measures to decrease pressures on the forest and range resources will be undertaken.Ecosystem restoration and improved fire control will have the double benefit of enhancing carbonsinks. Institutional capacity will be strengthened at all levels from the village to the cross-national."Countries: Mauritania, SenegalOther UNEP projects include:

Partnership for the Development of Environmental Laws and Institutions in Africa (PADELIA) –Phase II• 1 January 2001 to 1 December 2006• Objective: To enhance the capacity of African countries for the development, implementation andenforcement of environmental law and related institutions.Executive Summary: The project aims to support and promote enhancement of capacities of Africancountries for the development and strengthening of environmental law and corresponding national andregional institutions to ensure effective enforcement of laws for alleviating poverty in the continent.Outcome: A new culture of environmental legislative process established with its core components ofconsensus building and national ownership. 2. New expertise in environmental law created throughawareness raising, and training workshops 3. A number of draft national and regional environmentalrelated laws developed, harmonized and adopted by Parliaments. 4. A number of lawyers, judges,magistrates, legal practitioners and law enforcement officers trained to play a better role in theimplementation and enforcement of environmental law. 5. Legal materials on environmental lawdeveloped and published. Texts of environmental law and judicial decisions in the project's publicationsare on demand worldwide.Countries: Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mozambique, Sao Tome and Principe, Kenya, United Republic ofTanzania, Uganda, Mali, Senegal, NigeriaProject Principal Division: Division of Policy Development and Law.Implementing Divisions / Offices: UNDP United Nations Development Programme (Partner)Africa Environment Information Network (AEIN) - Phase I-• 1 January 2003- 1 August 2005.• Objective: A central objective of AEIN is to build capacity for establishing the essential datafoundation and information management framework needed to support country-level integratedenvironmental assessment and reporting, within the broad framework of sustainable development goalsand initiatives. A specific short-term objective is to support the implementation of decisions of theAfrican Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) with respect to the AEO preparationprocess, while strengthening capacity for environment assessment and reporting at the national and subregionallevels.• Executive Summary: The goal of AEIN is to enhance accessibility to more reliable environmental dataand information at national level for the environmental assessment and reporting in the region. Thestrategy involves facilitating greater networking among national institutions and others at sub-regionaland regional levels as well as building their capacity where such needs exist. The network aims topromote cooperation and partnerships in environmental data and information sharing, and is less aboutequipment even though this is an essential component. AEIN is being implemented to “build capacityfor integrated environmental assessments and reporting” in Africa.Outcome: The AEIN initiative has been used to inform stakeholders (policy makers/decision makers,collaborating institutions) from the 12 pilot phase countries and at sub-regional level of the need togenerate and share policy relevant environmental data and information, which can be used for policydevelopment, capacity building, etc. - The project has enabled the 12 AEIN pilot phase countries assessnational capacity building needs, including status of Environmental Information Systems (EIS), dataavailability/gaps as well as test environmental assessment and reporting tools that have been developedby UNEP. The project has been used to undertake national and sub-regional integrated environmentalassessment and reporting, based on development goals such as New Partnerships for Africa’sDevelopment (NEPAD), PRSPs, etc. Experts and institutions at national, sub-regional and regionallevels have been identified and have been actively involved in national, sub-regional, regional (AEO-2)

and global (GEO-4) environmental assessment and reporting processes. - Structure, thematic areas,major environmental issues for the AEO-2 report has been developed and a draft report prepared.Countries: Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Lesotho, Mauritius, Senegal, Seychelles, Tunisia, Uganda, ZambiaDevelopment of National Legal Databases for Capacity-Building to Enhance Access to EnvironmentLaw Information in Africa-• 1 September 2004 to 1 September 2007.• Objective: To develop national capacities and provide technical support to selected African countriesfor development of national databases of environmental law.Executive Summary: The project is designed to develop web-based national legal databases ofenvironmental legislation, regulations and institutions for environmental management, activities andevents, state of environment reports, the country’s status of international legal instruments, planspolicies and programs relating to environment, reports and publications. The project plans to buildcapacity through training programmes on the development of databases and organizing environmentallaw information in a user-friendly way.Outcome: Enhanced accessibility of environmental law information through web-based database togovernment officials, judiciary, legal practitioners, academia, civil society and the general public toaccess environmental law information. This will increase utilization of national environmental laws,improving environmental law decision making, compliance and enforcement and assisting inenvironmental management. Capacity-building training programmes will train legal experts to collect,organize, process and retrieve environmental law information on the national website database.Countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Congo, Djibouti,Gabon, Senegal, Mali, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nigeria,South Africa, United Republic of TanzaniaProject Principal Division: Division of Policy Development and Law. Implementing Organizations:FAO (Partner), IUCN (Partner)An Ecosystem Approach to Restoring West African Drylands and Improving Rural Livelihoodsthrough Agroforestry-based Land Management Interventions• 1 November 2004 to 1 October 2007.• Objective: To restore degraded West African ecosystems and improve rural livelihoods. throughbuilding regional, national and local capacities in new scientific advances and tools for (1) diagnosisof land degradation problems and targeting of interventions, (2) valuation of ecosystem services andintegrated evaluation of policies for sustainable land management, and (3) conservation agroforestrypractices and adaptive ecosystem management.• Executive Summary: The project aims to promote an ecosystems approach for sustainablemanagement of the Parkland ecosystems (integrated crop-tree-livestock systems) of the semi-aridlowlands of West Africa. The project will build regional and local capacity in environmental policydevelopment for restoring the West African Parklands with the ultimate aim of improving humanwell-being and alleviating poverty. The project will complement UNEP’s support for theimplementation of the UNCCD, by aiming to restore degraded drylands in Africa, prevent furtherdesertification and promote sustainable land management as an integral part of national developmentpolicies, strategies and plans.• Outcome: Improved rural livelihoods through increased adaptive capacity among pilot villagecommunities in local land use planning and agroforestry-based land conservation practices; Improvedcapacity among national and regional policy institutions for targeting and testing of adaptive policyand agroforestry-based management interventions for sustainable management of dryland ecosystemsand improved livelihoods in West Africa; Core of national research and development workers in WestAfrican pilot countries with capacity for implementing ecosystem approaches to drylandmanagement, including land degradation surveillance, policy analysis using environmental

accounting, and scientific design and testing of policy and agroforestry-based land managementinterventions; Countries: Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal. Project PrincipalDivision: Division of Environmental Conventions. Implementing Organizations: WorldAgroforestry Centre (Partner), University of Florida (Partner)Development & Climate Change - Linkages between Development, Energy & Climate Policies inDeveloping Countries-• 1 December 2004 to 1 October 2006• Objective: The project focuses on improving understanding between climate change specialists andexperts in the energy sector, and helping partners to identify promising energy policy options andtechnology innovation approaches that are consistent with their national sustainable developmentobjectives.• Executive Summary: Global responses to climate change have been driven by a relatively narrowfocus on the issue that rarely considers potential synergies between sustainable development andclimate change policies. ‘Ancillary benefits’ such as improved energy efficiency or reduced healthimpacts from local air pollution may be significant but they are of secondary importance in mostclimate change circles, seen only as reducing the total cost of compliance with climate changecommitments. With their focus on long term change, climate change specialists are accused of ignoringmore pressing problems in developing countries. At the same time, in many countries policies that aresensible from a climate change perspective can emerge as side-benefits of sound developmentprogrammes. This project includes national efforts in Brazil, China, India, South Africa, Bangladesh,and West Africa (Senegal, Burkina Faso and Mali). It builds on the first phase country studies, whichstarted with an identification of major links between current national development policies and climatechange, including both adaptation and mitigation policies. The project team will examine in greaterdetail how energy sector policies can be evaluated using specific sustainable development indicatorsand existing analytical approaches and tools relevant to the countries. The project will produce asynthesis of the country case studies as an input to the UNFCCC in order to build support forapproaches that integrate sustainable development, energy and climate policies. Outcome: The projectwill improve understanding between climate change specialists and experts in the energy sector. At theconclusion of the project, partners in participating countries will have identified promising energypolicy options and technology innovation approaches that are consistent with their national sustainabledevelopment objectives. If adopted, these will reduce emission of greenhouse gases and help countriesprepare for the impacts of a changing climate while still meeting national development objectives.Countries: Brazil, China, India, South Africa, Bangladesh, Senegal, Burkina Faso, MaliProject Principal Division: Division of Technology, Industry and EconomicsRural Energy Enterprise Development (REED)-• 1 January 2006 to 1 December 2006• Objective: To promote renewable energy enterprise development and seed financing for cleanenergy entrepreneurs in developing countries, and increase the access of the rural populations toclean and affordable energy, which will ultimately have environmental, social and economicbenefits to them.Executive Summary: The Rural Energy Enterprise Development (REED) initiative is a flagship UNEPEnergy effort focused on enterprise development and seed financing for clean energy entrepreneurs indeveloping countries. In Africa, AREED operates in Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania.Outcome: The project will establish a clean energy enterprise development facility comprising anumber of seed and patient capital support mechanisms and corresponding enterprise developmentservices. Together these mechanisms will provide clean energy entrepreneurs with the support neededto turn innovative ideas into concrete business plans, and for the more promising plans to start pilotoperations and eventually grow to the point they can secure finance from commercial sources. The

facility will offer the opportunity to aggregate a variety of resources-grants, loans, investment, and soon - and organize these into distinct regional mechanisms with their own identities.Countries: Senegal, Mali, Ghana, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, China, BrazilProject Principal Division; Division of Technology, Industry and Economics.Implementing Divisions / Offices: DTIE : Energy Branch (Implementing), United Nations Foundation(Partner)Assessment of pollution status and vulnerability of water supply aquifers of African cities.• 1 December 2003 to 1 December 2005• Objective: To extend the scope and coverage to other African countries in order to establish a networkof African experts for the assessment of contamination and trend detection degradation of urban andperi-urban water supply aquifers.• Executive Summary; This joint Project of UNEP-DEWA in collaboration with UNESCO-IHP as theimplementing agency, UN-Habitat and ECA as regional partners, aims at supporting and enhancingcapacity for groundwater resources protection and their utilization. The project has been built on thesuccesses achieved in earlier work carried out in six (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Nigerand Senegal) West African countries and later on, includes five Anglophone countries i.e. Ghana,Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa and Zambia. Main goal was to set up networks for exchange of scientificinformation, develop suitable methodologies for assessing and monitoring potential contamination ofshallow and deeper groundwater aquifers. Eventually a groundwater protection strategy suitable toAfrica’s physical and socio-economic environment will be established. This will include policy andlegislation in appropriate institutions while enhancing human resources capacity to plan and implementsustainable groundwater utilization at all levels.• Outcome: The capacity building in each project team, together with further publicity andscientific/technical knowledge transfer actions, are all resulting in a more lasting and strategic impact.The capacities built through the efforts of the project have permeated beyond the project teams, and theteams are considered centers of excellence. The project has created a significant core of skilledpersonnel at M.Sc and Ph. D levels in the countries involved. Currently a book is being produced whichwill have a lasting scientific impact and its publication is eagerly awaited by many stakeholders with aninterest in the subject.Countries: Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Ghana, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ethiopia, Kenya, ZambiaProject Principal Division: Division of Early Warning and Assessment. Implementing Divisions /Offices: UNESCO (Partner)