Senegal River Basin Water and Environmental Management Project
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Project Title | Senegal River Basin Water and Environmental Management Project
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Financing | Total: $2,030,000;
Sources of Financing: Global Environment Facility (GEF) |
Timeframe | 2004 - 2009
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Status | Completed
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Description
The Senegal River Basin Water and Environmental Project is a regional GEF grant being implemented in the four riparian countries sharing the Senegal River Basin (Guinea, Mali, Mauritiania, and Senegal).
The project development objective (PDO) is to provide a participatory strategic environmental framework for the environmentally sustainable development of the Senegal River Basin and to launch a basin-wide cooperative program for transboundary land-water management. The project is designed to improve the capacity of the OMVS and to strengthen the national capacities to address transboundary water and environment management issues. Most importantly, the project provides a framework for including Guinea, the upstream riparian, as a full beneficiary in the management and joint development of the Senegal River Basin.
It is worth noting that OMVS is the executing agency of the project on behalf of the four riparian countries although Guinea is not yet a full member of OMVS. This set an unprecedented step forward for blending cooperation between riparian countries. The implementing agencies are the World Bank and UNDP. Three out of the five components of the project are implemented by the World Bank and the remaining two components are implemented by the UNDP.
The World Bank implements the following three components:
- 1. Environmental management capacity building. At the regional level, this component focuses on strengthening the dialogue between OMVS and Guinea in the inclusive framework for joint management of the basin resources. At the national level, this component focuses on strengthening national capacities, in OMVS and Guinea, especially on transboundary environmental management aspects.
- 2. Data knowledge and management. This component focuses on strengthening the data base and knowledge management of Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal. In addition, it also integrates and develops Guinea’s technical capacity building network for information and data exchange.
- 3. Transboundary diagnostic analysis and strategic action plan. This component focuses on identifying the transboundary environmental issues and then, through a participatory process, preparing a SAP to prioritize actions to address those identified issues.
The UNDP implements the following components:
- 4. Microgrants program priority actions. This component, based on the findings of the TDA, focuses on supporting pilots’ activities that demonstrate the feasibility of local level approach to implement best practices in land and water conservation. Those pilots, based on community driven principles, strengthen the national and local institutions entities while providing benefits through restored environmental activities.
- 5. Public participation program. This component puts an emphasis on the required participation and communication aspects among stakeholders. It focuses on: (i) awareness and dissemination, (ii) communication at various levels, and (iii) enhancing participation of stakeholders including the scientific community.
Expected Outcomes
Achievements: Results and Impact
Lessons for Replication
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See also
- Related projects in Guinea
- Related projects in Mali
- Support for the Protection of River Niger and the fight against pollution and pollutants in town I of the District of Bamako
- Reversing land and water degradation trends in the Niger River Basin
- Micro Dam creation in the rural community of Bolo in the Fouta Basin
- Installation of Solar Pumps, Mali
- Initiative to support the fight against POPs and preservation of the River Niger through the protection of natural Koflatyé collector in municipality V of the District of Bamako
- Improving access to potable water to communities of Monzombiena.
- Fight against pollution of the River Niger
- Digging Wells Project, Mali
- Construction of a large well in the village of Gadiaba Mbomoyaabees
- Community Management of a large well, Mali
- Related projects in Mauritiana
- Recycling Plastic Product Pollutants in the Senegal River
- Providing potable water to the village de PK6
- Providing potable water to the village de Nere Walo
- Providing potable water to the village de Belel Ournguel, Mauritiania
- Project to establish a system of Recovery and Utilization of wastewater, GATAGA district, Kaedi
- Improving the system of pumping wells in the pastoral town of Elkawsara-Moughataa Mounguel.
- Improving access to drinking water in the village of Touways dieri, Mauritania
- Construction of wastewater treatment station, in Dar Naim district
- Related projects in Senegal
- The Senegal River Case
- Provision of water to community and agricultural biodiversity, Senegal
- Project to improve access and community management of water resources
- Project to extend water supply capacity and communal vegetable growing
- Increasing the fight against marine pollution and poverty through access to drinking water and sanitation in Dionouar
- Improving household water and agrobiodiversity
- Domestic household water and agrobiodiversity project
- Decentralized Managment of Irrigation Areas in the Sahel : Water User Associations in the Senegal River Valley
- Dams and Large Scale Irrigation on the Senegal River. Impacts on Man and the Environment
