The West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA) helps countries access expertise and finance to sustainably manage their coastal areas. It was created in response to countries’ request for solutions and finance to help save the social and economic assets of coastal areas, and coastal erosion and flooding.
Event Objective
The launch of the WACA Program and its convening Platform seeks to simplify access to knowledge and technical expertise and promote political and financial commitments to support a coordinated, regional approach for coastal resilience in West Africa.
Hosted by the Republic of Senegal’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, and co-organized by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, Nordic Development Fund, West African Economic and Monetary Union, and the World Bank, high-level political commitments to the regional approach to coastal resilience will be highlighted on November 8th, with the official Ministerial launch of the WACA Platform and the first WACA Resilience Investment Project.
The three-day event also includes a knowledge day to share the latest innovations and experiences in promoting coastal resilience, a field visit to local communities in Dakar to see firsthand the impacts of coastal degradation and the solutions being implemented and will be preceded by two days of technical working sessions for the WACA Resilience Investment Project.
Key agencies
The Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources (MECCNAR) is the lead implementing agency for the WACA project. It will rely on a project implementation unit to coordinate project activity execution, with support from relevant institutions It is worth noting that the Flood and coastal risk assessment was conducted with technical leadership from the National Disaster Management Agency, through a consultative process with all sector ministries and institutions concerned.
Contact
Bubacar Jallow, director of the Central Project Coordination Unit (CPCU) at Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources (MECCNAR) is the WACA coordinator.
