The document discusses Senegal's experience with regional approaches to adaptation planning. It provides two case studies: [1] Senegal's involvement in the Great Green Wall initiative to combat desertification, which involves planting along a 15km wide, 545km long strip of land. Over 16 million plants have been developed and 40,000 hectares planted so far. [2] The Senegal River Basin Organization (OMVS), which manages water resources across Senegal, Mali, and Mauritania through dams for irrigation, electricity, and flood control. A new program aims to improve the basin's resilience to climate change through vulnerability assessments, adaptation plans, and capacity building. Regional coordination is important for integrating projects

1. REPUBLIQUE DU SENEGAL
Un Peuple – Un But – Une Foi
MINISTERE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE
Direction de l’Environnement et des Etablissements Classés
Regional approaches to adaptation
planning : Senegal experiences
NAP EXPO 2016
Presented by :
Gabriel Pierre NDIAYE & Mamadou Daha KANE

2. OUTLINE
• Background
• Example of two regional programs
• Perspectives from regional projects for
NAP process

3. SENEGAL
• Ouest African Country
• Member of ECOWAS
• Located in the Sahel Belt
• Least Developed Country
• Superficy : 196 722 km2
• 700 km of Costal zone
• 3 800 000 ha of arable lands
• Population : 14 000 000

4. Situation Nationale
• CCNUCC
– signature : 13 Mai 1992
– ratification : 14 juin 1994
• Creation of a National Climate Change Committee (COMNACC) :
by decree in 2011
• National Adaptation Plan of Actions (NAPA, 2006)
• National Communications (1997, 2010, 2015)
• Intended National Determined Contribution (2015)
• NAP process launched in july 2015: each of 6 the sectors
identified formulate their NAPs then compilation at the national
level

5. Overview of some adaptation approaches at
the regional level
Two cases :
• Great Green Wall
• Senegal basin river organisation

6. Senegalese Experience with Great Green Wall

7. Senegalese Experience with Great
Green Wall
National context
Senegal is a Sahelian Country :
• High variability of raining season
• A of 25% deficit of rain water between 1970 to 2000
• Ecosystems are highly vulnerable to climate change
and degraded
• Desertification process in progress from the North
with high frequency of sand wind
• Increased land Degradation linked to biomass deficit

8. Senegalese Experience with Great
Green Wall
African initiative for the GGW :
• launched in 2005
• Endorsed by African Union in 2007
In Senegal, high involvement of the President
who decided to lead by example by creating the
National Agency of the Great Green Wall in 2008

9. Objective of the Great Green Wall
Programme
• Ecosystem and lands restoration;
• Biodiversity conservation and restoration
• Poverty alleviation in rural area affected by
desertification progress in the North of Senegal
• Increase carbon sequestration
The GW Agency is supported under national budget

10. The Great Green Wall is 15 km wide and 545km long, goes through
sixteen (16) municipalities
From the coast to senegalese and malian boundary

11. Covered Areas and Beneficiaries
GMV Senegal : 3 regions, 5 departments, 16 municipilaties,
pastoral area in the center North of Senegal
545 km x 15 km, between Leona (Louga) and Bele (Bakel). It covers a surperficy of 817 500 ha

12. Initial Outcomes
From 2008 to 2015 :
• 16 714 000 plants were developed in nursery and 40 227 hectares were planted
• 7 100 km of firewall control are established
• and 13 000 hectares became protected land
• 32% of the area committed by Senegal for the Green Belt
is actually managed
• 7 vegetable gardens of 40 hectares are implemented for
900 Women
• Community management approach developed
for livestock feeding to avoid conflicts

13. Monitoring approaches
• The ecosystem regeneration dynamics is assessed with national and
international universities and institutes;
• Different technical and financial partnerships are associated in the
implementation of the programme, a contract of performance is established
between the Agency and the Ministry of Finance;
• Impacts on Livelihood are estimated annually;
• Education and Environmental training courses are regularly assessed

14. SENEGAL RIVER BASIN ORGANISATION :
SENEGAL, MAURITANIA, MALI, GUINEA
Regional Management of Senegal River

15. Senegal River Basin

16. OMVS Organigramme

17.  the river Basin Organisation is established since 1972 by Mali, Mauritania and
Senegal. Guinea is member since 2006 ;
 the objective is to manage Senegal river basin natural resources in order to
improve populations livelihoods ;
 the strategy consist on buildings dams for electricity supply for the 4 countries,
water regulation to avoid floodings and for irrigation purpose (120 000 hectares)
and ecosystem conservation ;
 Develop partnership between river communities to avoid conflicts
Objectives

18. Manantali
Hydro electricity Dam
Diama
Irrigation Dam

19. A new programme :
Improving Senegal River Basin Resilience to Climate Change
Impacts
Senegal River Basin is remarkably affected by climate change
impacts. These climate changes pose a real threat to the
availability and sustainability of the environment and natural
resources, especially water resources.
It is in this particular context that OMVS supports Member States
to consider issues related to climate change in the
implementation of a sustainable environment and natural
resources management at regional, national and local level.

20. Activities
• Assessing the vulnerability of the basin to climate variability and change;
• Mobilizing and facilitating access to scientific information and knowledge on
climate phenomena and their current and potential impacts;
• Updating OMVS management and planning tools to take into account the
impacts of climate change;
• Planning and implementing sustainable pilot strategies for adaptation and
mitigation in the basin;
• Building institutional and stakeholders capacity at all levels of governance to
enable them to play their full role in the adaptation and sustainable
management of natural resources.
• The overall cost of the project is approximately $ 20 million

21. Timeline of implementation (duration, delivery date): In progress
(2014 - 2019)
1. Characterization of variability and climate change and vulnerability assessment of the Senegal
River Basin (2015-2016);
2. Preparation and approval of a regional action plan for adaptation and mitigation (November 2016 -
January 2017);
3. Updating water resource management models and strategic documents (2017);
4. Promote sound environmental governance through an effective support for the enforcement of
OMVS instruments and regulations on sustainable water and environment management in the 4
Member States (Basin Water Charter ) (2015 - 2018);
5. Implementation of pilot projects for adaptation and mitigation (2017-2019) and development of
multi-purpose water (irrigated agriculture, fishing, health ... °)
6. Capacity building for various types of stakeholders at regional, national and local level (training,
awareness raising and information sharing) for a better understanding of climatic phenomena and
adherence to the planning and implementation of sustainable actions to adaptation (2016 - 2019);

22. Perspectives from regional projects for NAP process
• All regional projects have to be considered in the NAP
processes;
• Each Country has to associate outcomes and activities going
under regional project in their NAP process;
• Projects objectives are integrated program taking into
consideration livestock , water and agriculture management
with an aim of increasing resilience of communities and
ecosystem vis a vis climate hazards;
• Monitoring climate parameters are highly important for the
success of activities and climate scenario in order to guide
appropriated adaptatives measures;
• Sharing experiences and local knowledges in the
regional/subregional level is to encourage, it will consolidate
commitment and capacities of local communities and promote
best practices;

23. • More resources are mobilized but regional coordination
could be a challenge and can constraints the
implementation process
• Each country will need to have his own national process
under the regional programme;
• Regular concertation between countries will minimize
maladaptations measures and will avoid conflicts.
• Guarantee high political involvement and ensure high
scientific consideration;

24. Others regional programs
• Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem
• Strengthening transboundary corporation for improved
ecosystem management and restoration in the Senegal
Delta (under development by Senegal and Mauritania)
• Gambia River Basin Organization (Senegal, Gambia,
Guinea Republic, and Bissau Guinea)

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