Territorial approach to climate change in Senegal
Sustainable energy solutions in a Sahelian environment: demonstration and structuring measures to develop economically viable local supply chains.
Context and challenges
The Sylvo-Pastoral Zone (ZSP) of the Ferlo Inter-regional Alliance cuts across five Senegalese regions and has a population of more than 400,000. With its dry, arid climate, this territory is undergoing a continuous process of degradation. Human activity is affecting both the renewal and production capacity of natural resources.
Desertification, exacerbated by an increase in climate variability and demographic pressure, bears heavy responsibility for rural communities’ increasingly precarious living conditions. Climate models for Senegal put forward by experts show that the Ferlo will be affected by global climate change. A rise in average temperatures of up to 4.9°C is expected by 2090, together with an increase in the annual variability of precipitation.
Objectives and solutions
The ClimTerr project aims to support regions in this zone to acquire the methodological and operational prerequisites enabling them to integrate climate change within the territorial management policies of the Ferlo Inter-regional Alliance.
The objective is therefore to identify the vulnerabilities and coping capacity of the local people and territory in relation to climate change, build the capacity of the Ferlo regions as regards the whole process of planning climate strategies and, finally, develop and implement in the field the tools essential to preparing territorial climate policies. The project’s goal is to help get a Territorial Climate Plan up and running for the Ferlo Alliance by 2014.
Partners
Technical partners
- Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières (AVSF)
- UNDP programme « Towards low emission and climate change resilient local development » (TACC Senegal)
- Ecological Monitoring Centre (Centre de Suivi Ecologique – CSE)
- Pôle Pastorale Zones Sèches (PPZS)
- Cheikh Anta Diop University
- Dakar, and Gaston Berger University
- Le Partenariat Saint-Louis
Funders partners
- Région Rhône-Alpes
- Comité Français pour la Solidarité Internationale (CFSI)
Beneficiaries
- Rural communities in Ferlo
- Audience: regional elected representatives and officials of the Ferlo Inter-regional Alliance, representatives of civil society organizations, local authorities and key local stakeholders
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Sustainable energy solutions in a Sahelian environment: demonstration and structuring measures to develop economically viable local supply chains.
Context and challenges
The programme was launched in response to the energy situation in the Saint-Louis region of Senegal.
Energy is in fact a problem acutely felt in this predominantly agro-pastoral zone: only 13% of rural areas have access to electricity, as against 29% nationally. Apart from the question of access, the quality of the electricity service varies from area to area and causes difficulties, not only for households but also economic operators and the individual and industrial processing units for agro-pastoral products.
Nevertheless, the region has significant energy potential, as yet under-exploited, whether solar, wind or biomass from agricultural residues and animal waste.
Charcoal use is still widespread (+1.2% compared with the national average) despite strong signs of degradation of this resource in the area. Fossil, i.e. non-renewable, fuels still account for 85% of household domestic energy consumption.
Objectives and solutions
The first phase of the programme pursues three core objectives:
1. Putting in place favourable institutional conditions for effective promotion by local operators of renewable energy sources appropriate to the needs and potential of the region’s territory.
2. Strengthening and supporting the emergence of provision from efficient, competitive local social and inclusive enterprises, offering biogas and solar solutions suitable for the local customer base.
3. Boosting the dissemination of renewable energy at regional level amongst economic operators and households in isolated areas.
The programme intends to produce an energy atlas of the Saint-Louis region and establish energy platforms designed to demonstrate the potential of renewable energy sources for productive and domestic uses.
Partners
- Partenariat (Saint-Louis)
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Saint-Louis Regional Development Agency
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