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2008 Annual Report / IUCN-CWAP

Published byIUCN-Regional Program for Central and West Africa (CWAP),Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Copyright2008, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and itsresources (IUCN)

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CitationUICN-PCWA (2008), Promoting efficacy in Central and West Africa,2008 Annual Report, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 40 pages.

ISBN978-2-8317-1150-8

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Available at IUCNRegional Office Central and West Africa Program01 BP 1618 Ouagadougou 01Tel: (+226) 5032 8500Fax: (+226) 5030 7561E-mail: [email protected]/paco

Credit for pages: Cover page, P2, P17, P18, P19: JF Hellio N Van Ingen / FIBAP6: UICN-PACOP7: Félicité MangangP9: Intu Boedhihartono and Félicité MangangP10: Martin NganjeP13: Jean-Marc Garreau and Désiré BakyonoP 20: UICN - Guinée BissauP21: UICN - CamerounP24: Ludovic TabsopaP25: Planète UrgenceP27: Aimé Joseph Nianogo

Editorial Staff:

ChairmanPr Aimé Joseph Nianogo

Technical coordination staff Jacques SomdaFélicité MangangSamuel Kofi Nyame Jean-Marc Garreau

Translation to English :Amadou Bissiri

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ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS . . . .4

IUCN - CWAP DONORS . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5

FOREWORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

THE FOREST CONSERVATION PROGRAM . .8

Central and West Africa committed to bettermanaging their forests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Forest landscapes improve livelihoods inCentral and West Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Cameroon successfully tries out the « povertyforest » toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Community volunteers involved in bush firesurveillance and forest restoration in Ghana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

CARPE Program: for better governance insustainable natural resource management inCentral Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

THE WATER RESOURCES AND HUMIDZONES PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

Nigeria has adopted a charter forparticipatory, sustainable, and equitablemanagement of water resources in theKomadugu Yobe Basin . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

A Burkina Faso-Ghana agreement on cross-border governance of the Volta water . .12

Community land and water resourcemanagement approaches to impede thedegradation of the Lake Chad Basin . . .14

The global water partnership is beingreinforced in Central Africa . . . . . . . . . .15

PROTECTED AREAS PROGRAM . . . . . .16

Protected areas managed participatorily andequitably in West Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . .16

A cooperation agreement between Ghanaand Burkina Faso for concertedmanagement of shared ecosystems . . .16

Towards genuine integration of themanagement of the River Senegal Deltaarea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

MARINE AND COASTAL ECOSYSTEMSPROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

PARTAGE: a framework for cross-borderfish resources development . . . . . . . . .18

Negotiate development fishery agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19

THE RIGHTS, POLICY, AND GOVERNANCEPROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Finally extractive industries in Guinea-Bissautake the environment into account . . . . .20

Senegal: elected representatives at theforefront of the conservation of nature . .20

Expert Panel: improve the oil and gas sectoractivities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21

PARTNERSHIP AND COLLABORATIVEINITIATIVES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22

MIKE: controlling illegal killing of elephants . . .22

TRAFFIC: supervising the trade of wildlife fora better conservation of resources . . . .23

PRCM: partners for rational and sustainablemanagement of marine and coastalresources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

GWI: sub-basins managed in an integratedmanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Planète Urgence: volunteers servingcommunities and promoting national parks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

THE COMMISSIONS AND MEMBERS ATWORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Collaboration with IUCN’s Commission onSurvival of Species . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

IUCN’s Secretariat working for its members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

List of IUCN membership in Central andWest Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

IUCN-CWAP PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . .34

FINANCES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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AD (NGO): Action pour le Développement AFED: Amis de la Forêt et de l’Environnement pour leDéveloppement AIDS: Acquired Immuned-defience SyndromAMCOW: African Ministers' Council on WaterAVP: Accord de Partenariat Volontaire CARPE: Programme régional de l’Afrique Centrale pourl’environnementCBLT: Commission du Bassin du Lac Tchad CDB: Convention sur la Diversité BiologiqueCEDC: Centre d’Etudes de l’Environnement et duDéveloppement au Cameroun CEFDHAC: Conférence sur les Ecosystèmes deForêts Denses et Humides d’Afrique CentraleCEEAC: Communauté économique des Étatsd’Afrique CentraleCEES: Centre d'Etudes Environnementales et SocialesCEGIRE: Comité d’Etat pour la Gestion Intégrée desRessources en EauCERAD: Centre de Recherche et d’Action pour leDéveloppement Durable en Afrique CentraleCEW: Cameroon Environmental Watch CGET: Conseil de Gestion de l’EcosystèmeTransfrontalier Gourma/Sahel CICOS: Commission Internationale du Bassin duCongo-Oubangui-SanghaCIFOR: Center for International Forestry ResearchCITES: Convention on International Trade ofEndangered SpeciesCMS: Convention on Migratory Species COMIFAC: Commission des Forêts d’Afrique CentraleCREPA: Centre Régional pour l’Eau Potable etl’Assainissement CRS: Catholic Relief ServicesCSRP: Commission sous-régionale des pêchesCTGEN: Comité Transfrontalier pour la Gestion desEaux du Nakanbé CTO: Cognizant Technical OfficerCWAP: Central and West Africa Program DGRE: Direction Générale des Ressources en Eau DR: Directeur Régional DRC: Democratic Republic of CongoEMB: Ecole Mobile de Brousse EU: European Union FCFA: Franc de la Communauté Financière AfricaineFGF: Forest Governance Facility FIBA: Fondation Internationale du Banc d’Arguin FLEGT: Forest Law Enforcement on Governance andTrade

GAECA Palmerina: Groupe d’Appui à l’Education etla Communication Environnementale GAED: Gestion des Activités Extractives pour leDéveloppement GASS: Guidelines for the Assessment of Small-Scaleand Data-Deficient fisheriesGDP: Gross Domestic Product GSEAf: Groupe des Spécialistes de l’Eléphantd’Afrique GWI: Global Water InitiativeGWP: Global Water PartnershipGWP-CAf: Global Water Partnership - Central Africa GWP-CAfTAC: Global Water Partnership - CentralAfrica Technical Advisory CommitteeHIV: Human Immuno-deficiency Virus IBAP: Institut de la Biodiversité et des Aires protégées ICRAF: International Centre for Research in Agro-forestryIUCN: International union for the conservation of nature IWRM: Integrated Water Resource Management LLS: Landscape and Livelihood System MIKE: Monitoring Illegal Killing of ElephantNGO: Non Governmental OrganizationOIBT: Organisation Internationale des Bois Tropicaux OMVS: Organisation pour la Mise en Valeur du fleuveSénégal PAGEV: Projet d’Amélioration de la Gouvernance del’Eau de la Volta PAP: Plans d'Aménagement par Pêcherie PARTAGE: Projet d'Appui à la GEstion de la PêcheARtisanale TransfrontalièrePAS: Programme d’Action StratégiquePGIRES: Programme de Gestion Intégrée desRessources en Eau du Sourou PHAST: Participatory Hygiene and SanitationTransformationPND: Parc National du Diawling PRCM: Programme Régional de conservation de lazone Côtière et Marine en Afrique de l’OuestPROFOR: Programme sur les Forêts (a World Bankprogram)PU: Planète UrgenceRBT: Projet Réserve de Biosphère TransfrontièreRECOPA: Réseau de Communication sur lePastoralisme REPES: Réseau des Parlementaires pour la protectionde l’Environnement ROSE: Réseau des Organisations Locales du Sud-EstRPT: Regional Thematic Programs SICE: Système d’Information sur le Commerce desEléphantsTRAFFIC: The wildlife trade monitoring network USAID: United States Agency for InternationalDevelopment WAP: W, Arly et Pendjari WWF : World Wide Fund for Nature

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iUcn- cWaP

donors

World BankAfrican Development BankEcosystem Partnership fund

French CooperationAgence Française de Développement

Japanese International Cooperation AgencySwiss ConfederationBelgian CooperationCanadian cooperationSpanish CooperationEuropian UnionAfrican Union

FAODFIDCRDIUSAIDITTODanidaUNEPUNDPWWFSIDAGTZIIEDDGISGEFFFEMCBLTFIBACITESTRAFFICSWISSAID

GWP-CAFTACPlanète UrgenceUS Wildlife serviceLes amis de la terre

Howard Buffet FoundationMairie de Messok

Ministry of Forest and FaunaMinistry of Lands, Forestry and Mines of Ghana

Republic of MaliRepublic of Ghana

Federal Gouvernment of NigériaIslamic Republic of Mauritania Democratic Republic of Congo

Ministry of Agriculture, of the WaterResources and Fisheries of Burkina

IUCN (members)

The IUCN Central and West Africa programme is most gratefulto the numerous donors that provided financial and technicalsupports to implement the 2008 work plan.

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2008 was a year of major changes within theInternational Union for the Conservation ofNature (IUCN) in general and in Central andWest Africa in particular.

In May 2008, the regionalization anddecentralization process, which had begunsome 15 years ago, finally resulted in the mergerof the Central and West Africa Offices into onesingle program: Central and West Africa Program(CWAP). The new program covers 26 countries,and its coordination unit (the Regional Bureau) isbased in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. It has amembership of 70, including 15 States.

The restructuring of IUCN in Central and WestAfrica was conducted collegially, from July 2007to May 2008, and the purpose is to make theUnion a strong institution; one that is able toinfluence policies and to efficiently sustainconservation and sustainable developmentefforts that are better adapted to the currentneeds of the African continent.

The year 2008 also marked the end of the2005-2008 four year program and saw thepreparation of a new program for the 2009-2012

period. Designed with the participation of IUCN’smembers and partners in Central and WestAfrica, the new four year program 2009-2012contributes to the objectives of the Union’sglobal program and will be implemented by allIUCN constituents (Secretariat, members, andcommissions). One key innovation in the newprogram has to do with the place and primordialrole conferred to IUCN’s members and its sixcommissions in the planning and implementationof the program. It also provides that significantefforts should be made in the areas ofcommunication and information technologies.The new program was adopted at the 4th WorldCongress on Nature held in Barcelona, Spain,from October 4 to 14, 2008.

During the forum and the Assembly meeting,IUCN’s staff, members, and partners wereinvolved in the preparation and implementationof the different activities organized in thethematic pavilion (water, forests, energy,safeguarding species, etc.); which helpedCentral and West Africa to participate in theCongress effectively. The forum and theAssembly were an opportunity for experiencesharing and for discussion on the theme of thecongress, which was: “A diverse andsustainable world.”

This report presents the main achievements ofIUCN’s interventions in Central and West Africain 2008, and bridges the former and newstructures of its program in Central and WestAfrica. So far, these two regions had beentreated separately in the programs; but they noware united because they present the samestakes and face the same environmental andsocial challenges. IUCN is therefore in a positionto promote experience exchange in terms ofconservation and sustainable development moreefficiently between the players and partners inCentral and West Africa. As a result, thestructure of the 2008 report rests on the newconfiguration of the Central and West AfricaProgram.

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Pr Aimé J. Nianogo,Regional Director

For the first time ever, this technical reportpresents both the outcomes of the Central andWest Africa Programs. However, it is not ajuxtaposition of two reports; rather, it is a singleand coherent report, reflecting the RegionalProgram CWAP.

The purpose of the report is also to account forIUCN’s new orientations under its programentitled « Shaping a sustainable future, » whichwill be implemented up to 2012. Morespecifically, the point is to find ways to develop asingle program for IUCN; one that serves as areference and reflects the common ambition ofUnion’s secretariat, members, andcommissions.

The report is articulated along the five regionalthematic programs (RTP), which now structurethe regional program, to give it a genuinelyregional scope. From Senegal to the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, and from Mali to Congo,the Forests, Water and humid zones, ProtectedAreas and Biodiversity, Marine and coastalecosystems, and Rights / Policies / Governanceprograms operate on comparable themes, and

use identical approaches. The RTPs areresponsible for designing and implementinginterventions targeting biodiversity conservation,IUCN’s reference subject. And, they rest oncountry program offices where IUCN hasestablished special local relations with itsmembers and partners.

Beside the regional and country programs, thereport highlights one of IUCN’s strengths inCentral and West Africa: developing partnershipsarticulated on creative initiatives aiming toreinforce conservation and sustainabledevelopment interventions. Based on theseinitiatives, IUCN pools the knowledge generatedby the different partners to develop technical andinstitutional innovations for the benefit ofbiodiversity and local populations.

Finally, IUCN would not be a Union without itsmembers and commissions, which are thesources of its own dynamism. In several areasand countries, its members are involved in theimplementation of the program. The reportpresents the key outcomes reached thanks toand with their actual participation.

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inTrodUcTion

Jean-Marc Garreau,Regional Program Coordinator

The foresT conservaTion

Program

CENTRAL AND WEST AFRICACOMMITTED TO BETTER MANAGINGTHEIR FORESTS

The voluntary partnership agreements (VPA)between the European Union and timberexporting countries are a central aspect of theEU-FLEGT action plan, which aims to supportthe forest sector reforms and to prevent illegaltimber and derivative products from entering theEuropean market. During the stakeholderdialogue organized as part of FLEGT/VPA, thefollowing were achieved:

Voluntary partnership agreements were signed:Ghana signed a commitment with the EuropeanUnion to launch the negotiation process, with aview to reaching voluntary partnershipagreements by the end of 2008. On the otherhand, Cameroon and the European Union areengaged in the same process.

Mobilization of actors in Cameroon and Congo:The different workshops organized to reinforcethe actors’ technical capacities in the field ofnegotiation helped to collect their opinions. Themobilization of the various actors was also madepossible because ten participants of Cameroonand Congo received financial support to attendthe VPA negotiation held in Brussels.

Preparation of dialogue strategies with the China:Forest governance in Central Africa now involvesthe participation of China, an importantconsumer of tropical African wood. In 2008,IUCN invited a team from the Chinese ForestAdministration to visit Africa. Following from thisAfrica tour, the Chinese Administrationrecognized the need to pursue dialogue withAfrican governments in order to curb illegalexports.

On the whole, the commitment of the Congobasin countries to the FLEG process is positive.Cameroon and Congo are committed andenvisage signing their agreements in 2009.Gabon has expressed an interest in joining themomentum. Though not concerned by the

project, the Central African Republic is alsoactively preparing itself. One other challenge for2009 has to do with involving rural populations inthe governance of forests. The plan is thereforeto establish and revitalize multi-actor dialogueplatforms in the southern and eastern provincesof Cameroon.

In signing partnership programs, IUCN providestechnical support to the process by facilitatingtechnical and scientific data sharing and theparticipation of all stakeholders, namely civilsociety, small, medium-size and big firms, aswell as Parliamentarians. The prospects aretherefore good for the future of FLEGT in Centraland West Africa. However, all the stakeholdersmust keep their eyes open to ensure that theimplementation of the agreement signed byCameroon remains a participatory process andserves as an example for the other CentralAfrican countries that are still hesitant.

FOREST LANDSCAPES IMPROVELIVELIHOODS IN CENTRAL AND WESTAFRICA

The « Livelihood and Landscape Strategy »initiative (LLS) comprises four thematiccomponents, which are: forests and povertyalleviation, markets and motivation factors,governance, and landscape change. Thecomponents are treated following an integratedapproach, whereby IUCN aims to meet thechallenges of improving poor people’s livingconditions in rural areas through sustainable useof biodiversity, while maintaining a good level ofenvironmental surveillance. Several countries areconcerned by the activities under this initiative:Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo,Ghana, Liberia, Mali, Central African Republic,Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.

In the Congo Basin (Cameroon, Congo, CentralAfrican Republic), achievements have beenmade in terms of reinforcing the links betweenconservation and development. A povertyevaluation framework has been established, and

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it involves LLS’s partners in the Congo Basin:WWF, CIFOR, ICRAF, CEES, CERAD, ROSE,TRAFFIC, CEW, Radio Environnement, and localpartners. The participatory management of thefauna takes the communities’ rights intoconsideration. More and more forestconcessionaries engage in forest certificationprocesses.

In the Great Lakes region (Rwanda, Burundi,DRC), through training and experience sharing,the capacities of civil society, grassrootscommunities and administrative representativeshave been improved in terms of participatorydefinition of development and conservationindicators.

In Burkina Faso, a study of the state of forestresources and the socio-economic constraintsinvolved in the management of Sablogo forest inthe Center-East region reached the conclusionthat the existing forest management structuresand infrastructures are not operational, and thatthe forest has almost been entirely occupied(80%) by agricultural farmers, human habitations,and socio-economic infrastructures (such asmarkets, grain mills, schools, well and/orboreholes). For the triple communal forests ofSablogo, the rural communes of Bissiga andLalgaye, including the urban commune(municipality) of Tenkodogo, have committedthemselves to restoring and fostering the forestresources, including non wood ones, which theyshare.

CAMEROON SUCCESSFULLY TRIES OUTTHE « POVERTY FOREST » TOOLKIT

The World Bank’s Forest Program (PROFOR)provides forest resource actors with possibilitiesfor learning in order to better understand thecomplex relations obtaining between forestconservation and the fight against poverty. Incollaboration with its partners, including IUCN, it

is developing a toolkit likely to help betterunderstand the contribution of forests tocommunities’ living conditions. IUCN took part inthe testing and improvement of the “poverty-forest” toolkit, which, henceforth, will be used todesign forestry projects that contribute moreefficiently to poverty alleviation.

Though the prospects for a wider application ofthe program in Cameroon are significant, thetoolkit still needs to be fine-tuned during the nextsteps, by replicating the test under other forestand socio-economic conditions.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS INVOLVED INBUSH FIRE SURVEILLANCE AND FORESTRESTORATION IN GHANA

In Central and West Africa, bush fires are one ofthe causes of forest resource degradation andthe increase of green house gas. Whatever theircauses, bush fires reduce the sponge functionof plant covers, and, in the long term, facilitatewind and water erosion of soils. In Ghana, bushfires are still commonly used as a tool forhunting, honey collection, palm wine tapping, aswell as during traditional ceremonies. However,these fires generate a loss of about 3% in thecountry’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Funds received from the InternationalOrganization for Tropical Wood (OITB) helpedIUCN and its members in Ghana, namely theForestry Commission through its ResourceManagement Support Center and the ForestResearch Institute of Ghana, to design a Projecton “Fire management and post-fire restorationwith local community collaboration.” The aim ofthe project is to increase the benefits drawn fromforest products, through promoting a bettermanagement of bushfires. More specifically, theproject seeks to guarantee the protection ofwood and non wood forest products, and torestore fire degraded lands with local plantspecies.

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In 2008, fire brigades trained: At least 100community members have been trained andequipped to combat bushfires. Thesecommunity fire-fighters will be given a practicalguide, currently being drawn up. In the District ofDormaa, a nursery, with a capacity of more thanone thousand plants, is being prepared withlocal forest species.

Furthermore, local communities permanentlyinformed on how to manage bushfires better: Aradio program in local languages is available forthe communities. Notice signs for bushfirecontrol have been produced and distributed tothe local communities.

The project also helped to identify the variousstakeholders (public, private, and localcommunities) and clarify their different roles,through a participatory approach. The currentlegislation on bushfire was reviewed, preliminarysocio-economic studies were undertaken, andan assessment of the training needs was carriedout in the Districts of Dormaa, Begoro, Juaso,Afram Plains and Winneba. The preliminarystudies revealed that the main causes of thefailure of fire management programs in thecountry hinge on two factors: bushfiremanagement is excessively centralized, whichtranslates into limited coordination betweenpublic agencies, and communities areunderequipped to fight against the fires. Thelegislative inadequacies are, among other things:lack of legal support to volunteers to allow themto reprimand or arrest culprits, lack of recognitionof the role of traditional legislative authorities, andabsence of an assurance or a compensationscheme for firefighting activities.

Based on the outcomes of the preliminarystudies, a participatory ecological survey wasconducted to understand bushfire mitigationaspects, species’ resilience and adaptation, andthe forest species preferred by localcommunities. From this, some sociallyacceptable, economically viable, andecologically resilient forest species wereselected for field testing. The selection helped tolaunch a restoration process involving: (a)working with hunters to obtain information onspecies such as the fig tree, whose propagationdepends much on wild animals, (b) promotion ofsnail farming as a short term restoration strategy,(c) engagement of faunal restoration in themonitoring of degraded forest lands, and (d)starting a management scheme, such ascommunity resources management zones, tosecure a rational management for restoredfauna.

The way forward for the project will consist ofrevising the taungya restoration scheme(agroforestry system), to: (i) prepare a trainingprogramme with a view to increasing the numberof volunteers, (ii) set up a training site for forestlandscape restoration, (iii) establish anenvironment conducive to testing newenvironmental management tools such as the‘Cristal’, ‘Poverty’ and ‘Landscape modeling’toolkits, (iv) test and demonstrate thecompatibility of certain species with naturalresource based undertakings such as honeyand snail farming, (v) establish a communitycarbon scheme to benefit from the existingsocial structures, including organized firebrigades, that are capable of actually combatingbushfires.

FOR BETTER GOVERNANCE INSUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCEMANAGEMENT IN CENTRAL AFRICA

In 2008, the Central African Regional Programon Environment (CARPE), namely, its componenton “Improving natural resource governance” forwhich IUCN was made responsible, geared allits activities to supporting the important agendaof Central African countries in terms ofenvironmental policy and legislation (forest,water, mining, etc.). Coordinating the actors ledto remarkable changes in terms of naturalresource policies and legislations in mostcountries of the Congo basin.

Based on participatory dialogue, the strategyadopted helped to plan and implement coherentactivities, to reinforce the players’ capacities interms of preparing, implementing, andmonitoring priority micro-projects in each of thecountries, to provide support for reformingCEFDHAC, to sensitize governments and otherpartners on land use, to prepare case studieswith a view to publishing the lessons learnedthrough natural resource management, etc.

The national teams trained in 2007 wereconsolidated in 2008 to foster a better synergyof action through consultation and realisticplanning. Each of the countries was therebyenabled to design a work plan highlighting theirpolicy and legislative priorities. The plansfacilitate the involvement of the variousenvironmental actors (parliamentarians, women,local populations, non-governmentalorganizations, women’s organizations, researchinstitutions, etc.) in the planning, implementation,and monitoring.

In consonance with the implementation of theCEFDHAC reform, the focal points of CARPEProgram helped to coordinate the efforts of thenational actors, and to convene seven nationalCEFDHAC forums in Burundi, Rwanda, SaoTomé and Principe, Gabon, the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, andEquatorial Guinea.

In addition, the program funded sixteen micro-projects in the nine countries, based on therecommendations made by the NationalSteering Committees and the Regional SteeringCommittee. The monitoring and supervisionconducted revealed that the micro-projects wereimplemented satisfactorily. Their outcomes willbe used to influence forest and environmentalpolicies at both national and regional levels.

Similarly, accompanied by the Regional ProgramCoordinator based at IUCN, the office teambased at USAID in Kinshasa, DRC, namely, theCognizant Technical Officer (CTO), and theambassador of the United States of America inCameroon, CARPE’s Focal Points alsoconducted field visits to the different landscapeareas. The visits aimed to assess theimplementation of the field activities funded byCARPE and executed by WWF, African WildlifeFoundation, Conservation International, WCS,and their different partners. Also, not only didthe visits facilitate a synergy between thedifferent components of the Program, but theyalso laid out the orientations necessary to ensurethat the activities are implemented efficiently inthe different landscape areas.

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NIGERIA HAS ADOPTED A CHARTER FORPARTICIPATORY, SUSTAINABLE, ANDEQUITABLE MANAGEMENT OF WATERRESOURCES IN THE KOMADUGU YOBEBASIN

The Komadugu Yobe Basin, a hydrographicalsub-basin of Lake Chad, covers 140 000 Km².The Nigerian part of the basin is 84 000 Km²and boasts of great agricultural, pastoral, andfishery potentials, which are necessary for thesurvival of millions of populations. It also boastsof a great potential for tourism, small andmedium-size industries, and is the habitat forimportant ecosystems and natural landscapes.Climatic changes and demographic growth haveexerted strong pressure on the ecosystems ofthe basin, thereby affecting the naturalresources, namely water. The FederalGovernment and the States concerned with thebasin therefore decided to use an IntegratedWater Resource Management (IWRM) approachto manage the Basin. As a result, in collaborationwith IUCN and an NGO member (NigerianConservation Foundation), the FederalGovernment of Nigeria designed the “ImprovingLand and Water Resources Management in theKomadugu Yobe Basin” Project. The primary aimof the project is to improve the institutionalframework for water resource management inthe basin.

Consequently, the project went on to identify thefollowing key stakeholders involved themanagement of the basin’s land and waterresources: the States, represented by therelevant ministries, direct user groups,community organizations, customary authorities,and civil society.

A State Committee for the IntegratedManagement of Water Resources (SCIWRM)has been set up in each of the six NigerianStates (Bauchi, Borno, Jigaw, Kano, Plateau andYobe) concerned by the basin. The committeeinvolves all the stakeholders identified, includingwomen’s groups. A joint State Committee

comprising the Secretaries and Chairpersons ofthe six committees has been established tomanage the resources.

The riparian States that have chosen to pooltheir financial resources to support themanagement plan of the hydrographical basinhave set up a trust fund.

This has created an enabling environmentconducive to the various stakeholders’participation in the decision making process ofthe management of water and other naturalresources. As a result, it has been possible toundertake some collective maintenanceinitiatives in the reservoirs of the KomaduguYobe Basin.

A BURKINA FASO-GHANA AGREEMENTON CROSS-BORDER GOVERNANCE OFTHE VOLTA WATER

The river Volta flows through six West Africancountries and represents a key socio-politicalresource binding populations that are different interms of origin and culture. Consequently, itprovides both an opportunity for regionalcooperation and numerous possibilities for themember states of the basin. However, as withmost other river basins in Africa, the potentialitiesof the basin have only been little harnessed,principally for lack of formal legal and institutionalprovisions bearing on the management of itswater and other natural resources.

Additionally, the governance of water faces thefollowing challenges: absence of a referenceframework for information management and datasharing, risks of conflicts stemming fromdivergent interests up and downstream, landand soil degradation leading to the silting of thecanals and reservoirs, proliferation of aquaticweeds, absence of mechanisms to ensure theparticipation of populations in the decision-making process.

The WaTer resoUrces and

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The Volta Water Resource GovernanceImprovement Project (PAGEV) supported theauthorities in charge of water resources inGhana and Burkina Faso, as well as ripariancommunities to set up water resourcegovernance mechanisms and tools. Thisresulted in 2008 in the ratification of a concertedcross-border water resource managementagreement. Indeed, on June 20, 2008, theRegional Minister for the Upper-East region ofGhana and the Governor of the Center-EastRegion of Burkina Faso signed an agreementcreating a Cross-border Committee for theManagement of the Water Resources of theNakambé or White Volta sub-basin (CTGEN).

Having taken place after a process of severalconsultations with all stakeholders at the local,national, and cross-border levels, the signinginspired new agreements and protocols aimingto improve and reinforce concerted cooperationbetween the two countries in the area of naturalresource management. These culminated into astrategy designed jointly by the technical bodiesand target communities of the two countries,and which spells out the following:

• Mobilize the strategic partners around thecommunities: decongestion and decentralizedadministrative authorities, and technicalstructures supporting local communities andcivil society. This required the organization ofconsultation forums at all levels, from bottomto top. The forums provided platforms wherethe impediments to the sustainable use ofnatural resources in the shared basin werediscussed, and possible solutions identified.

• Establish committees for the protection of riverbanks in eight pilot communities, whichconsequently reforested more than 20km longof banks, with the purpose of checking soilerosion and thereby protect the river waterquality. Fruit and firewood trees were plantedto protect the banks, promote sustainableenvironmental management, and supportincome diversification at the local level.

• Support the improvement of communities’livelihood by providing them with motor-pumpsto develop dry season gardening, and helpingwomen to generate revenues through smallruminant farming.

• Reinforce communities’ capacities to ensurethe sustainability of their interventions, throughseveral training modules including soil fertilityimprovement, farmland management, hygieneand HIV/AIDS education.

• Finally, promote experience and good practiceexchange visits between cross-bordercommunities in order to promote friendshipand collaboration between agents, equivalentstructures, officers, and neighboring or cross-border communities.

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COMMUNITY LAND AND WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENTAPPROACHES TO IMPEDE THEDEGRADATION OF THE LAKE CHADBASIN

The degradation of the Lake Chad Basin is partlydue to non-concerted uses that do not take intoaccount existing ecosystems. To reverse thetrend, the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC)and IUCN decided to pool their competences tosupport riparian communities and countries todesign management and/or communal useapproach for their land and water resources, todraw the lessons thereof and to promote thesuccessful experiences in Cameroon, Chad,Niger and Nigeria. The interventions focused onthe following three aspects: (1) funding ofcommunity initiatives in the flood plain of WazaLogone, (2) collection and dissemination oflessons, and (3) implementation of the strategicaction program of the Lake Chad Basin.

• The communities contribute to the strategicaction program of the Lake Chad Basin: In April2008, at a workshop organized in Maroua,Cameroon, the communities that had tested thecommunity management approachesexchanged experiences with the Lake ChadBasin resource management actors. Theworkshop helped to produce a synthesis of theachievements of the different projectimplementation experiences and to identify therelevant ones for large scale reproduction in theLake Chad Basin, as part of the Strategic ActionProgram of the Lake Chad Basin.

• The Strategic Action Program of the LakeChad Basin adopted takes the communities’concerns into account: During the 5th meetingof the Steering Committee, held in Niamey,Niger, in April 2008, IUCIN and the nationalcoordinators disseminated the lessons learnedfrom implementing the Lake Chad Basincommunity management approaches. TheSteering Committee recommended that thelessons learned from preparing andimplementing the Strategic Action Program ofthe Lake Chad Basin be adopted in June 2008by the Council of Ministers.

Encouraging results in 2008

With 30 million CFA Francs grantedthem to undertake communityinitiatives, the Lake Chad ripariancommunities managed to:

- to plant 38 000 utilitarian wood plantsspecies (Acacia senegal, Acaciapolyacanta, Azadyrachta indica) andfruit trees in Chad, Niger, andCameroon ;

- provide access to drinking water to91 000 people who were sensitizedon hygiene rules and good sanitarybehaviors around 8 boreholes inCameroon and Chad;

- reclaim about 10ha of degradedlands in Niger and Cameroon;

- reinforce communities’ capacities tomanage two secured livestock trailsof about 20 kms long, and twosecured livestock ponds around theWaza National Park. Managementconventions have been preparedand signed by resource user groups;

- create 6, 173 ha of fenced orchards.

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THE GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP ISBEING REINFORCED IN CENTRALAFRICA

The year 2008 marked the end of GWP’s 2004-2008 strategic plan. In Central Africa, thestrategy’s objective was to promote theimplementation of IWRM and its contribution tothe achievements of the region’s socio-economic objectives. Several actions werecarried out over the five years to help meet thisobjective. The key outcomes for the present yearare the following:

GWP’s network in Central Africa has beenreinforced: In 2007, GWP’s network inCentral Africa comprised theCameroon’s National WaterPartnership and about fifty partnersdistributed throughout the sub-region. In 2008, three newNational Water Partnershipswere established in Congo,the Central AfricanRepublic, and Sao Toméand Principe. Presently,the networks boast amembership of 120,coming from all watersector activities.

The regional waterpartnership ofCentral Africa hasbeen established:GWP-CAf held itsconstituent assembly inDouala, Cameroon, onNovember 29, 2008, to mark theend of transition between GWP-CAfTAC andGWP-CAf. At the end of the deliberations, GWP-CAf’s statutes were adopted and its bodies(Partners’ General Assembly, Steering

Committee, Scientific and Technical Committee and Secretariat) determined. The missionsconferred to the new Chairperson, M. JeanPierre Bidjocka, for the coming two years are thefollowing: set up the different GWP-CAf’sbodies, define and establish fundingmechanisms for the water sector in CentralAfrica.

GWP-CAf has been institutionalized: Newprospects and challenges arise from this; forinstance, create an IWRM coordinationunity at CEEAC, support preparation byCICOS of a Strategic Action Plan (PAS)for the Congo Basin, develop acommon action plan incollaboration with AMCOW’stechnical committee for CentralAfrica, and make the RegionalPartnership and its networkof partners viable. Thesechallenges are all detailedand articulated in GWP-CAf’s2009-2013strategy along fourstrategic objectives:help Central Africancountries andinstitutions to integratethe IWRM approach intheir developmentplans, promote water

resource management totackle climatic changes and

other critical challenges in CentralAfrica, position GWP-CAf as a water resourcemanagement advocate, and reinforce the GWPnetwork in Central Africa.

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ProTecTed areas

Program

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PROTECTED AREAS MANAGEDPARTICIPATORILY AND EQUITABLY INWEST AFRICA

The first generation of national parks in WestAfrica looked at the populations and the naturalenvironment in which they lived as two separateand independent entities. More recently, with thecreation of protected areas, a more balancedapproach combining biodiversity conservationand the development of neighboringcommunities has been adopted. As a result,there is an attempt to involve ripariancommunities along the protected areas in themaking of some decisions. However, in theimplementation of this participatory process,men have often held the key roles, leading defacto to a marginalization of the groupsconsidered as “minorities.” For example, thoughthey are the primary users of the parks, womenhave been largely excluded from theconsultation processes.

IUCN supports its members and partners inWest Africa to help them engage the process ofreflection on the role of participation and equity inthe efficient management of protected areas. Byorganizing workshops and mobilizing theappropriate knowledge and communicationtools, it seeks to help its conservation partnersto better understand equity in the managementof protected areas. It appears that, most often,women are perceived as natural resourcepredators; they remain marginalized in thesurveillance and data collection activities and arenot involved in the making of decisions. The keyachievements during 2008 are:

About twenty actors and partners weresensitized on the issue of equity in protectedareas: About twenty people including ministers,parliamentarians, and environmental NGOleaders participated in a regional workshop inCotonou, Benin, in April 2008. Sponsored byBenin’s Minister in charge of Environment, theworkshop helped to sensitize the participantsand to collect their concerns and suggestions.

Equity related sensitization tools are available inthe protected areas: A booklet on equity in WestAfrica has been published (in partnership with

the International Foundation of Banc d’Arguin)and was disseminated during IUCN’s worldcongress on Nature held in October 2008 inBarcelona. The booklet presents, among otherthings, case studies conducted in West Africaand practical intervention suggestions.Ultimately, a 35 minutes documentary was shotand screened for the first time during thecongress. Targeting the general public, the filmupholds women’s role in protected areas byportraying women in Burkina Faso, Benin, andGuinea Bissau.

Taking equity into consideration within protectedareas remains a challenge for policy makers andpark managers. Consequently, the Central andWest Africa protected areas program aims totransform the lessons learned into concreteactions. The main challenge has to do withensuring that the current management plansaddress the issue of equity, in order to developnew approaches. To meet this challenge, it isnecessary to continue to provide information tothe decision-makers within the protected areas,support promising initiatives as models, andlearn from past and current experiences.

A COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEENGHANA AND BURKINA FASO FORCONCERTED MANAGEMENT OF SHAREDECOSYSTEMS

The Ghanaian Minister in charge of Lands,Forests and Mines and his Burkinabecounterpart in charge of Environment and LivingFramework signed a long negotiated agreementon July 2008 in Accra, under IUCN’s facilitationand in the presence of the Regional Director ofCWAP, as well as numerous technical officersfrom the two countries. The aim of theagreement is to establish a concerted,integrated and sustainable management systemof shared wildlife resources, between Ghanaand Burkina Faso, in consonance with theprinciples of international legislation and thesecular cooperation agreements between thetwo countries.

With this agreement, the two parties committhemselves to consulting one another regularly in

order to better coordinate their natural resourceconservation policies, and to make thenecessary legal, institutional and technicalprovisions necessary to implement theircommitment on the conservation of naturalecosystems. Furthermore, they committhemselves to:

- protecting the wildlife migration corridors anddeveloping cross-border migration corridors,with appropriate statutes guaranteeing a betterprotection for wildlife species; - accelerating the prevention of activitiesdestructive to wildlife species in the areasconcerned, and speeding the application ofdeterrent penalties; - undertaking joint surveillance actions in theconservation zones.

A joint committee comprising key actors from thetwo countries will be responsible forimplementing the agreement. The committee willproduce an annual activity report addressing thestate of implementation, and make observationsand recommendations aiming to improve theAgreement, for the appropriate nationalauthorities. Finally, the Agreement provides for ajoint periodic evaluation of the state of progress.

TOWARDS GENUINE INTEGRATION OFTHE MANAGEMENT OF THE RIVERSENEGAL DELTA AREA

Following from the support provided to theDjoudj and Diawling national parks, the Cross-border Biosphere Reserve Project (CBR) of theriver Senegal delta aims to establish a commonapproach in Senegal and Mauritania. Only suchan approach will help consolidate the progressmade in terms of restoring and co-managing theextremely rich ecosystems of the region.Additionally, the ecosystem approach adoptedseeks to federate national and internationalcompetences and capacities, in order topromote genuine integration of the managementof the delta area, and to preserve both itsbiological receiving capacity and its economicvalue for the local populations.

In 2008, the CBR was subjected to a weeklyecological monitoring, and the actors alsoworked to develop a strategy for themanagement of the warthog population.

In terms of consultation, experts from the Cross-border Steering Committee of the river SenegalDelta CBR, the Organization for the Improvementof the River Senegal (OMVS), IUCN, andparliamentary institutions were convened to aninformation exchange workshop. They hadfruitful discussions on possibilities of interactionbetween the various parties concerned by CBR,and made several recommendations aimed tooperationalize the CBR.

For the eco-development component, the effortsfocused on continuing and transferring activities,as well as on training the staff of the DiawlingNational Park (PND) on all dossiers oncommunity development. This activity wascarried out by IUCN in support to theManagement Department of the park.

Further, 2008 saw the inauguration of aCommunity Development Center whoseconstruction was completed in December 2007.For the conservation of the park, the Center willhave to determine, in collaboration with thevarious actors of the zone, a new workprocedure giving more importance to the actors’direct involvement (municipalities, populations,and groupings). The Center will also have to givemeaning to the Biosphere Reserves concept; aconcept cherished by UNESCO, one whichplaces human being at the heart of naturalresource conservation and management, andseeks to increase actors’ involvement andresponsibility. The Center will host theheadquarters of the Micro-finance Program, anEco-Museum, a handicraft show and sale room,as well as a multifunctional room for trainingsessions and workshops.

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A sizeable elephantpopulation in West Africa

The Ghana-Burkina Faso boarder isrich with protected areas:- On the Burkina Faso side, theSissili classified forest, Nazingagame ranch, and Kabore TambiNational Park.- On the Ghanaian side, MoleNational Park, Gbele ResourceReserve, and several forestreserves, including Red Volta West,Red Volta East, Gambaga West,and Gambaga East.

Were this set of areas managedcoherently, with its 1100 elephants, itwould boast the second largestsavannah elephant range in WestAfrica, after the complex of the W,Arly and Pendjari (WAP) parks, whichhosts more than 4000 heads.

marine and coasTal

ecosysTems Program

PARTAGE: A FRAMEWORK FOR CROSS-BORDER FISH RESOURCESDEVELOPMENT

In accordance with IUCN’s intervention rationalein terms of support to fishery management inMauritania and Senegal, PARTAGE Project(Project for Support to the Management ofTraditional Cross-border Fishing) had to supportthe initiative of the Fishery Development Plans(PAP) for four cross-border fish species (yellowand black mullets, spot, and bluefish), based onregionally coherent national plans as part ofCRSP (Sub-regional Fishery Commission).Consequently, after finalizing the project’sintervention framework, it was possible toundertake the necessary upstream preparationto allow the beneficiaries to take good ownershipof the process in 2008.

As part of this undertaking, a yellow mullet (Mugilcephalus) sampling protocol was established todetermine the structure of the stocks inMauritania. Indeed, it is suspected that asedentary population and a migrant stock arepresent in Mauritania, and that Mauritania’sreproduction zones provide significantcontribution. Further north, the MarineStewardship Council has just completed an

evaluation of the yellow mullet fishery in the Bancd’Arguin National Park, as part of the GASS(Guidelines for the Assessment of Small-Scaleand Data-Deficient fisheries) project.

Furthermore, the project’s beneficiaries(representatives of fishery administration andprofessionals, research institutions of Mauritaniaand Senegal) organized themselves to assessthe past actions and to prepare the launch of theproject. This long participatory process led to ajoint preparation and validation of the project’saction plan.

Finally, the project provided support toprofessional organizations in the two countries,thereby allowing them to convene several timesthroughout the year. With this, the professionalorganizations were empowered to play their rolesin the co-management process, and to supportthe two countries’ fishery administrations, as away of solving the fishery control and monitoringproblems, but also of facilitating theimplementation of the bilateral fishery agreement.

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NEGOTIATE DEVELOPMENT FISHERYAGREEMENTS

IUCN reinforces national competences in thearea of fishery agreement negotiations in themember States of the sub-regional fisherycommission.

For all CSRP member States, fisheryagreements with the European Union (EU) are animportant source of income, but also ofoverexploitation of the fish resources. Fisheryagreements have also been signed with otherfleets from more remote countries, such asAsian fleets. However, unlike with the EU, thelatter agreements are not generally signed aftersophisticated negotiation sessions. Also, withthe non EU fleets, the stakes of the agreementsare generally less important.

If these agreements are important for CSRPcountries, the negotiation capacities of theiradministrations are generally poor. At a meetingof their fishery directors held in 2006, IUCN andits partners from WWF and CSRP were asked toprovide training around this theme.

During the first half of 2008, and basedon a manual published specifically forthe purpose, a workshop involvingabout twenty participants wasorganized in each of the seven CSRPcountries by a team comprising theproject coordinator, one CSRPrepresentative, and one fisherynegotiation expert. The workshoptargeted fishery administrations, butalso other ministries for which thefishery agreement is important, and therepresentatives of industrial andtraditional fisheries. Indeed, the fisheryagreements and their financial spin-offsare often concentrated in fisheryadministrations and financial

departments, without genuine consultation withthe professional organizations or other ministries.

The training sessions were well received, andthe actors requested CSRP to repeat suchinitiatives. The open-mindedness thatcharacterized the workshop allowed traditionalfishery representatives from Guinea to take part,for the first time ever, in a meeting on this topic,and to voice their concerns. The processlaunched at this workshop became concreteonly recently, with the EU’s decision to acceptapplications from traditional fisheryrepresentatives in the agreement undernegotiation.

After the first wave of training sessions, a jointteam visited the Republic of Guinea and Cape-Verde to assess the social, economic, andenvironmental impacts of the fisheryagreements, in collaboration with local expertsand administrators. In addition, based on amethodology previously designed, some datawere collected and analyzed jointly. Becausethey found the methodology developed user-friendly in assessing the advantages anddrawbacks of fishery agreements, theadministrations of the two countries decided tocreate a fishery agreement impactmonitoring/evaluation committee, which willconvene twice annually. With this endeavor, itmay be hoped that the negative impacts of thefishery agreements will be mitigated and thepositive spin-offs improved.

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FINALLY EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES INGUINEA-BISSAU TAKE THEENVIRONMENT INTO ACCOUNT

The year 2008 was certainly pivotal in terms ofmining resource exploitation in Guinea-Bissau.Yet, neither the authorities, neither civil society,nor even the potential investors have enoughdata on the environmental stakes of theiractivities. A strategy based on a “formativeresearch/action” approach was developed toreinforce the participation of Parliamentariansand civil society in the process of miningexploitation.

Twenty-five Parliamentarians (1/4 of the NationalAssembly), fifty national NGO actors, and aboutone hundred rural producers were trained andappropriately sensitized on the stakes of miningand oil exploitation for natural resources andGuinea-Bissau’s populations. About ten nationalmanagerial staffs were empowered to promoteperforming methodological and organizationaltools in the mining sector.

The following impacts resulted from theseoutcomes: adoption and enforcement of the

environmental impact study law, dissemination ofphosphate and oil related information by theauthorities and extractive firms, appeal to thegovernment to set up a multi-sector panel toorient mining and oil related issues.

SENEGAL: ELECTED REPRESENTATIVESAT THE FOREFRONT OF THECONSERVATION OF NATURE

Senegalese Parliamentarians are graduallybecoming environment-sensitive, as a result ofthe intervention of the Parliamentarian Networkfor the Environment in Senegal (REPES),supported by IUCN and the Embassy of theKingdom of the Netherlands.

During 2007, REPES developed variousinformation, sensitization, and awareness-raisingactivities targeting its members and localpopulations. Through organizing ecological sitediscovery tours nation-wide, industrial plantvisits, advocacy and lobbying actions targetingpublic authorities technical and financialpartners, it contributed to promote theimportance of environmental stakes in Senegal.

These undertakings significantly contributed toreinforce their image as advocates of theconcerns attached to their term of office, and setan example for the technical commissions andthe other networks of Senegal’s Parliament. Byreinforcing Parliamentarians’ knowledge andawareness with regard to environmental issues,REPES contributes to improve the quality ofparliamentarians’ deliberations and to help thembetter address environmental issues.

The Regional network of Parliamentarians for theEnvironment in West Africa, created recently withIUCN’s support as part of PRCM, will usefullydraw from these outcomes to extend anddisseminate them in the Parliaments of the otherPRCM member States.

The righTs, Policy, and

governance Program

Radio Environnement:a permanent sensitization tool

Radio Environnement is a platform for information andsensitization activities and for popularizing the experiencesof the actors involved in sustainable natural resourcemanagement, and the major events related to theconservation of nature. It broadcast from Yaoundé inCameroon.

Documentation center

Mobilizing information for conservation actors.

Here, readers in the documentation center ofIUCN office in Yaoundé, Cameroon.

EXPERT PANEL: IMPROVE THE OIL ANDGAS SECTOR ACTIVITIES

After launching its activities in October 2007, thePanel of independent scientific experts in chargeof reviewing the environmental and socialaspects of oil and gas exploration and extractionin Mauritania organized two missions in Februaryand May 2008. Though exploration is on-goingboth on and off-shore, the Panel noted that thecurrent production respite in the Chinguetti off-shore -the only oil field having reached theexploitation phase- may be used as anopportunity to prepare the country for the newphases of the oil era. The point is to establish ashort-term national learning curve in terms of theenvironmental and socio-economicmanagement of hydrocarbon production, whichimplies a considerable increase of the capacitiesof the State and civil society.

Outside the project’s communication activities,the experts also organized the actors into anetwork by setting up a platform for dialogue onoil related activities, involving Staterepresentatives, local governments, electedrepresentatives, academics, civil society, and oilcompanies.

To improve the oil and gas sector activities inMauritania, the experts have already made someinitial proposals, taking into account differentcontextual factors: SMEs currently with lowcapacities in terms of planning, monitoring,control, and intervention to face any accident inthe hydrocarbon sector; value and exceptionalsensitivity of some ecosystems; andheterogeneity of the actors.

In addition, the Panel organized various meetingswith academicians, including a group ofprofessors from the University of Nouakchottresponsible for a Master level training onManagement of Extractive Activities forDevelopment (GAED). The rationale of theproject is to train professionals likely to deal withthe issue of relations between extractiveactivities and their receiving settings(environment, riparian populations, States),whether inside mining firms, State services, localgovernments, or civil society.

The Panel conducted its missions in a contextwhere oil revenues in Mauritania are still lowerthan expected initially, because the Chinguettioff-shore production is lower than planned.

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CONTROLLING ILLEGAL KILLING OFELEPHANTS

The goal of the “Monitoring illegal killing ofelephants” Program is to provide the dataneeded to make management decisions, as wellas decisions on institutional capacity building fora sustainable management of elephants. This isa CITES initiative. In 2008, MIKE program beganmaking contacts with the Group of specialists onAfrican elephants and TRAFFIC Program, with aview to contributing to a study on bush meat inCentral Africa.

In Central Africa, the Program’s directcollaborators are the national and site officers,and the members of the steering committee(Wildlife department authorities). This multi-actorpartnership helped to make known the varioussites and to identify the support needs.Improvement of communication proved relevant,especially in the various sites; hence, there is apermanent need for support to build up a database.

With the various training sessions organized fortwo national officials and twelve site personnel,

MIKE now boasts of more competent humanresources. The training courses covered datacollection techniques and the management ofdata on illegal killing of elephants.

Excepting Monte Allen in Equatorial Guinea, allthe program’s sites received financial support in2008 to help boost their activities.

Scientific and technical knowledge was alsomobilized in order to reinforce elephantconservation actions in Central Africa. A surveyof the elephant population was done in theBoumba Bek National Park, Cameroon, one ofthe program’s sites. WWF Jengi, the partner incharge of the site, conducted the survey.Furthermore, a review of the national reports ofCameroon, Chad, Gabon and the CentralAfrican Republic revealed that some countriesare beginning to integrate the program in theirmanagement systems, in accordance with therecommendation of the third meeting of theSteering Committee. However, despite theseachievements, one major challenge remains,namely, how to improve the methods for datacollection and for continued management of adata base on elephants’ populations and theirillegal killing.

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ParTnershiP and

collaboraTive iniTiaTives

SUPERVISING THE TRADE OF WILDLIFEFOR A BETTER CONSERVATION OFRESOURCES

After providing distant assistance on wildlife tradefor several years, the TRAFFIC Program openedan office in Yaoundé, Cameroon, in April 2008,with the following priorities: bush-meat trade,timber trade governance, and illegal ivory market.TRAFFIC therefore represents a valuable supportfor the priority action program of the regionalinitiatives (COMIFAC and CEFDHAC) and thenational, regional and international conventions oragreements (CITES, CDB). The TRAFFIC-CentralAfrica Program covers eight of the nine COMIFACmember States: Cameroon, Chad, Central AfricanRepublic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo,Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Sao Tomé &Principe.

TRAFFIC is a joint WWF-IUCN Program in chargeof managing and coordinating the Elephant TradeInformation System (ETIS), and is implemented inclose collaboration with the Secretariat of CITES.

The last ETIS report produced by TRAFFIC clearlyindicated that Cameroon, China, the DemocraticRepublic of Congo, Nigeria, and Thailand are thecountries heavily involved in illicit ivory trade; andthat less than 5% of seizure cases world-wide andinvolving Cameroon, the DRC, and, moregenerally, African countries are actually reported toETIS. The TRAFFIC-Central Africa Program seeksto contribute to establish an ETIS network inCameroon and the DRC, and to revise andprepare a national strategy for the conservation ofelephants.

In 2008, the Program helped to reinforce thetechnical capacities of the actors involved in theconservation of elephants in Central Africa,through organizing ETIS training workshops. In theDRC, 23 participants from public institutions incharge of enforcing wildlife legislation receivedtraining on elephant trade information system. InCameroon, 25 agents from national andinternational institutions operating in theconservation of biodiversity were also trained onETIS.

PARTNERS FOR RATIONAL ANDSUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OFMARINE AND COASTAL RESOURCES

The Regional Coastal and Marine Program is aWest African initiative launched by IUCN, FIBA,WWF and CRSP; it started its second phase in2008. As a key actor in the process of making theProgram’s actions coherent, the Coordination Unithad a particularly busy agenda, and produced thefollowing key outcomes:

Funding mobilized to support sustainablemanagement of the coastal zone : A total of 21projects covering different sectors received financialsupport to reinforce the organizational, technical,and scientific capacities of West African marine andcoastal zone actors, for the purpose of rational andsustainable management of natural resources;

West African actors reinforced their participation ininternational conventions: The PRCM’s CoordinationUnit was involved in West Africa’s preparation forthe Conference of the parties to the Convention onBiodiversity, and it mobilized PRCM’s partners tosensitize member States’ authorities on theimportance of ratifying the convention. Similarly,

PRCM supported the ratification process of theAbidjan Convention in Guinea Bissau, Mauritania,and Cape Verde. Finally, as part of the Conventionon Migrating Species (CMS), PRCM engaged in aprocess aimed at supporting the inclusion into theconvention’ annexes of two endangered marinemammal species (sharks and sawfish) still existingin PRCM member States.

Coordination endeavors are still on-going in termsof providing support to funded projects to helpthem actually launch their activities, and establishingan effective monitoring and evaluation mechanism.Particular attention will be given to resourcemobilization in order to supplement the budget ofPhase 2 Program. It will also be necessary toidentify the gaps between the current programmingand the needs that have not been taken intoconsideration, to make the program more coherentand to organize a regional coastal and marineForum in Bissau on 16-20 February 2009. Theforum will provide an opportunity to shareexperiences in the area of sustainable managementof coastal and marine resources, to analyze theircurrent situations, and to allow technical andfinancial partners to exchange on the supportneeds of the populations concerned and on thepossible solutions.

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SUB-BASINS MANAGED IN ANINTEGRATED MANNER

The Global Water Initiative is implemented inWest Africa through consortium whosecomposition varies from a country to other. Thus,in Burkina Faso, the both principal partners areIUCN and CRS. The General Directorate forWater Resources (DGRE), the Regional Centerfor Drinking Water and Sanitation (CREPA),Association Tin Tua, and the RECOPA Networkare also involved. The initiative is innovative, bothin terms of the type of partnership and the waterresource management approach that itpromotes. The activities executed thus resultedin the following key outcomes:

Strategic relations were established, which willallow for the involvement of a variety of actorsfrom the water sector, at the launch of theproject. These actors were directly involved inthe diagnostic survey, which helped identify theintervention zone. Two sub-basins (Sirba andTapoa/Mekrou) were selected to test theintegrated water resource managementapproach in the Eastern region of Burkina Faso.The partners also agreed on a monitoring andevaluation mechanism for the project and thevarious field activities. The aim of the project’sparticipatory and inclusive nature is to improvethe visibility of its achievements and the localpartners’ ownership of these.

Development of integrated water resourcemanagement plans on the pilot sites. Thisrequires building the capacities of the projects’actors who need to understand the nature of the

issues discussed. Sanitation infrastructurebuilding norms and guidelines are beingdeveloped, and they include the terms andconditions, the technical specifications, and thecommunities’ abilities in terms of water pointmanagement.

More competent actors through providingtargeted training: Three training workshops wereorganized on the following items: Knowledge-Attitudes-Practices,Knowledge-Practice-Coverage, Integrated WaterResource Management (IWRM), ParticipatoryHygiene and Sanitation Transformation (PHAST),including other subjects not directly related tothe Global Water Initiative. By reinforcing theactors’ capacities, particular attention is given toexposing participants to the legal and institutionalframeworks of Burkina Faso, as well as to theestablishment of local water committees.

In Senegal, the project on integrated waterresource management and sanitation in theregion of Tambacounda is jointly managed byIUCN and CRS. Its intervention zone comprisestwo rural communities in the District ofTambacounda, East of Senegal, in theSandougou basin, a sub-basin of the Gambia.

In Mali, the Integrated Water ResourceManagement Program of the Sourou region(PGIRESS) concentrated on undertakingbaseline surveys (hydrographical studies, socio-economic studies, water infrastructure andsanitation studies), and on training GWI Mali’spartners on integrated water resourcemanagement (IWRM).

VOLUNTEERS SERVING COMMUNITIESAND PROMOTING NATIONAL PARKS

For four years, IUCN has been working withPlanète Urgence and a number of its membersand partners to ensure communities’ welfare andto promote National Parks in Cameroon. Thiscollaboration translates into both transfer ofknowledge and skills / or competencies fromEurope to Cameroon and grant allocations. Theimportance of this support is the increase in thenumber of applications by new partners wishing tobenefit from the support of the volunteers ofPlanète Urgence (PU).

As with the partners’ applications, the number ofvolunteers going on mission to Cameroon hasbeen rising: from 42 in 2004, the number shoredup to 164 in 2008, well beyond the 130volunteers initially planned, all the missions takentogether. And to further contribute to the fightagainst rural poverty, the volunteers’ interventionzones have also been broadened. Some partnershave received training on marketing, in addition tothe habitual modules: ecological monitoring,socio-economic surveys, support for schooling,computer related training, data base and websitedevelopment, human resource management, andproject design. Targeting one women’sassociation, the training on marketing consisted ofa practical phase on biscuit and soapmanufacture, and the processing of cassava intoflower. These are commodities that may be soldor consumed by the households themselves.

In April 2008, an IUCN/PU team conducted a fieldvisit to a number of partners to measure the

impact of the volunteers’ interventions. Themission visited three national parks that had beencollaborating with Planète Urgence since 2004:Waza National Park, Douala-Edéa Game Reserve,and Campo Ma’an National Park. Additionally, theteam visited the Bénoué Park, where somevolunteers have been working since January2008. It was possible to concretely measure theimpact of PU’s actions through exchanging withthe guides, eco-rangers, conservators of theparks, local communities, headmasters of thevarious schools where the volunteers are working,etc. For instance, it is noteworthy that in theschool of N’Diguina, the success rate hasincreased in some sections, the social conditionsof some children have improved thanks to thebenches and tables that have been madeavailable, some schools now have set up librarieswith more than one hundred books allowingchildren to borrow, and some guides can speakFrench and actually use it with tourists visiting theexceptional biodiversity found in Cameroon’sparks. Furthermore, some eco-rangers are nowable to use computers, and the living conditionsof local populations have significantly improved;for instance, one of the villages lying in theperiphery of Waza Park now has direct access towater.

In the light of the progress made, PU envisages toestablish an autonomous Planète Urgenceplatform in Cameroon to improve on the impactand efficacy of the various missions, for thebenefit of national park riparian communities.Additionally, Mobile Bush Schools (MBS) will beset up in the most remote regions of Cameroon.

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COLLABORATION WITH IUCN’SCOMMISSION ON SURVIVAL OF SPECIES

Through the African Elephant Specialists Group(GSEAF), the Commission for SafeguardingSpecies supported the Program’simplementation, alongside the Secretariat, inCentral and West Africa. In particular, the WestAfrica Group provided technical assistance tothe States as part of the implementation of theMemorandum of Agreement for the conservationof elephants in West Africa.

With the support of the Wildlife and FisheryService of the United States of America, it waspossible to develop projects in collaboration withthe countries lying within the elephant distributionzone in West Africa. In Togo, a nationalsensitization campaign on the need to protectelephants is on-going, and the legislative textsare being updated. Similarly, the localcommunities of the Comoé province in South-West Burkina Faso received support to improvetheir capacities in terms of use of modernmethods and tools to repel elephants and toprotect their farms.

The African Elephant Specialists Group alsosupported the development of nationalstrategies for the conservation of elephants inLiberia, Guinea, and Benin. Similar initiativeshave been started in Mali and Sierra Leone.

In terms of reduction of Human-Elephantconflicts, the Group did a case study inthe Park of the two Ballés and NazingaRanch, Burkina Faso, where such conflictsare recurrent. With this study, it has beenpossible to establish an integrated verticalmanagement of conflicts at the nationallevel, and to train four Burkinabes inZambia on the use of community-basedapproaches for the management ofHuman-Elephant conflicts.

Beyond sub-regional initiatives, GSEAfplayed a significant role in West Africa interms of developing a Pan-African strategyfor the conservation of elephants in Africa,in collaboration with the Convention onInternational Trade of Endangered WildlifeSpecies (CITES). It provided technicalsupport for the development and draftingof a strategic plan, which was thereaftersubmitted to CITES and the countriesconcerned for review and future approval.

The commissions and

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As a Union of its members, IUCN is unique in itskind. Its Secretariat gives specific attention to thework with its members in order to advancebiodiversity conservation policies.

Its regional level initiatives focused on building thecapacities of members in Central and West Africa.More specifically, the members were regularlyinformed on the creation process of CWAP, andthey received supports to take part actively in theworld conservation congress organized by IUCNin Barcelona, Spain, from 5-14 October, 2008.

By 2008, its membership in Central and WestAfrican was 70, including 15 States, 12governmental organizations, and 43 non-governmental organizations. IUCN’s members areorganized into two sub-regional Committees (onein Central Africa and one in West Africa). There arealso three National Committees in Senegal, Mali,and Guinea Bissau.

Whenever possible, the Union’s Secretariatdeveloped partnerships with its members. InGuinea Bissau, it contributed to strengthen theenvironmental civil society from which itsmembers originate. Their collaboration is part andparcel of IUCN’s operation in that country. Forinstance, the Institute for Biodiversity andProtected Areas (IBAP) and the InternationalFoundation of Banc d’Arguin (FIBA) involved IUCNin the implementation of a project providingassistance to the Joao Vieira-Poilao and OrangoNational Parks, and the Biosphere Reserve of theBolama Bijagos Archipelago.

The project allowed for a greater involvement oflocal communities in the participatory surveillanceprocess, and helped the population of the villageof Angôr (located in Orango National Park) togradually take ownership of the community eco-tourism development initiative.

The secretariat also supported Non-Governmentalmembers like Action pour le Développement (AD),GAECA-Palmerinha, and Tiniguena to design theirprograms. The first received financial resources torestore mangroves. The second got a favorablenotice for the funding of a project on participatorymanagement of fish resources as part of povertyalleviation in the mangrove national park ofCacheu. Finally, the third was given technicalassistance to improve the efficacy of themanagement of the marine community zone ofUrock.

In Cameroon, IUCN worked with CEW (CameroonEnvironmental Watch) to implement activitiesrelated to the Landscape and Livelihood Initiativein the Sangha Tri-National (TNS). The agreementmainly seeks to facilitate sustainable localmarketing of forest products for the benefit of thepoor, and to support game trade constrainingactions.

In the DRC, IUCN signed an agreement with theNGO Amis de la Forêt et de l’Environnement pourle Développement (AFED) to implement theactivities of a similar project in the geographic areaof the Great Lakes. This project component aimsto rehabilitate forest ecosystems that are affectedby pressures from displaced populations.

The implementation of the project on Promotion ofNatural Insecticides to Protect Cowpea in theRecessed Water Basins of Lake Chad continuedthrough 2008. One year earlier, a collaborationconvention was signed to this effect with theCenter for Environmental Studies andDevelopment in Cameroon (CEDC), in NorthernCameroon. The purpose of the project is toprotect the environment by substituting pesticideswith integrated methods for combating plantdestroyers, and thereby prevent the use ofimported pesticides, which pollute the productsand the area.

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IUCN’S SECRETARIAT WORKING FOR ITS MEMBERS


BENIN

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and African Integration Minister’s Secretariat PO Box : 318 Cotonou - BéninTél. : +229 21300400 / 21301870 /213010 92Fax: + 2292130 02 45/+229 21381970Contact person : Luc Comlan Eba Mobile : +229 95 05 74 79Email : [email protected]

Centre National de Gestion des Réserves deFaune (CENAGREF) 08 PO Box 0227 Cotonou - Bénin Tél. : +229 21309071/21307282/21307279Fax : +229 21309072E-mail : [email protected]; [email protected] Contact person : Col. Jean Ehouenou Tessi, DG

Nature Tropicale (NT)Lot 4477RYagbe AkpakpaCotonou 06 PO Box 1015 PK3 - BéninTél : +229 21333773/21338732/95409414Fax : +229 21338732E-mail : [email protected] ; [email protected] Contact person : Sagbo Josea Dossou-Bodjernou

Association Vive le Paysan Nouveau (AVPN)PO Box : 57 Dobgo – CouffoTél. : +229 22463235Fax : +229 22463267Email : [email protected] Contact person : Jacob Agossevi, Directeur Exécutif Mobile : +229 93132969

BURKINA FASO

Ministère de l'Environnement et du Cadre de Vie(MECV)03 PO Box 7044 Ouagadougou 03Burkina FasoTel : +22650307751 / 50324074Fax : +226 50324075Contact person : Zongo Joseph

Association Nationale d'Action Rurale (ANAR)01 PO Box 2314 Ouagadougou 01Burkina FasoTel : +226 50351541E-mail : [email protected] Contact person : Abdou Ouedraogo

Fondation des Amis de la Nature (NATURAMA) 01 PO Box 6133 Ouagadougou 01Burkina FasoTel : +22650 37 32 40 / 50 37 32 62Fax : +22650 37 28 86E-mail : [email protected] ; [email protected]

BURUNDI

Organisation de Défense de l’Environnement auBurundi (ODEB)Rue Mutabaro N°11 BujumburaBurundiTél. : +257 225333/ Mobile : +257 79933467Fax : +257 216323Email : [email protected] person : Antoine Knyomvyi([email protected])

Association burundaise pour la protection desoiseaux (ABO)25, avenue de la Victoire,

PO Box : 7069 Bujumbura - Burundi

Tél: +257 24 94 70

Cell.: +257 85 17 61 Fax : +257 24 94 71Contact person : Geoffroy Citegetse E .mail : [email protected] ou [email protected]

Association Tubane de GikuziAv.RuhororoPO Box : 6603 Bujumbura - Burundi Tel : +257(79)925-096 Email : [email protected] person : Athanase Mbonimpa

CAMEROON

Ministry of Environment and Nature ProtectionYaoundéTel. : +237 77977575 (Mobile)Email : [email protected] Contact person : Gabriel Tchatat

Centre d’Etudes de l’Environnement et duDéveloppement (CEDC)PO Box : 410 Maroua - CamerounTel. : +237 77636355 (Mobile)Email : [email protected] person : Jean-Pierre Mvondo Awono([email protected])

Groupe des Amis de l’Unesco et del’Environnement (GRAMUE)PO Box : 12.909 Yaoundé - CamerounTél. : +237 22222135/ Mobile : +237 77781075Fax : +237 22222251Contact person : Jeanne-Marie Mindja([email protected])

Association Internationale pour la Protection del’Environnement en Afrique (ENVIRO-PROTECT)PO Box : 13.623 Yaoundé - CamerounTél. : +237 99891936 (Mobile)Contact person : Tandjeu Jean Baptiste ([email protected])

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LIST OF IUCN MEMBERSHIP INCENTRAL AND WEST AFRICA

Cameroon Environmental Watch (CEW)PO Box : 3866 Yaoundé - CamerounTél. : +237 22310435/ Mobile : +237 77524717Email : [email protected] Contact person : Roger Ngoufo [email protected]

Organisation pour l`Environnement et leDéveloppement DurableRue TsingaPO Box 12675 Yaoundé - Cameroon Tel: ++237 7760-2383 Email : [email protected] person : M. Jonas Kemajou Syapze

REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Ministère de l'Economie Forestière et del'EnvironnementBrazzaville - République du Congo

Mobile : +242 557 74 35Contact person : Noé Mabiala ([email protected])

Alliance Nationale pour la nature (ANN)PO Box : 5697 Brazzaville - République du Congo

9, rue Djoueli Moukondo

Tél. : +242 28 71 28/Mobile: +242 556 54 43

Contact person : Isaac Moussa : [email protected]

Alliance-Homme-Environnement d’Afrique(AMEA)PO Box : 15344 Brazzaville

République du Congo. Case 766

763, Avenue de l’OUA

Mobile : +242 522 29 19E-mail : [email protected] person : Dominique Nsosso

Conservation de la Faune Congolaise (CFC)PO Box : 244 Brazzaville - République du Congo

203 Rue Nkéni Talangal

Cell. : +242 532 52 30E-mail : [email protected] person : Pierre Oyo

Réseau International Arbres Tropicaux au Congo(RIAT-Congo)PO Box 2820 Brazzaville - Congo (ROC) Tel: +242 668-3823 Email: [email protected] person : Joël Loumeto

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OFCONGO

Ministre de l’Environnement, de laConservation de La Nature, des Eaux et Forets PO Box :12 348 Kin I / Gombé - RDC13, Av. Papa ILEO Kinshasa E-mail : [email protected]: +243 997 08 63 58Contact person : Nina Landu

L’Institut Congolais pour la conservation de laNature (ICCN)PO Box : 868 Kinshasa 1 - RDCAv. Des Cliniques N° 13Tél. : +243 99 80 44 118/+243 81 71 00 444E-mail : [email protected] person : Cosma Wilungula Balongelua

Amis de la Forêt et de l’Environnement pour leDéveloppement (AFED)PO Box:c/o Paroisse du Mont Carmel Katindo-Goma/RDCAv. de la Mission ; Quartier Himbi,Commune de Goma /RDCCell.:+243 81 31 34 055E-mail : [email protected] /[email protected] person : Lumpu Nsenga Mtangala

Réseau pour la Conservation et la réhabilitationdes Ecosystèmes Forestiers du Nord–Kivu(Réseau CREF) Tel : +243 998 38 48 39PO Box C/o 05 Gisenyi - RDCE-mail : [email protected] person : Alphonse Muhindo

COTE D'IVOIRE

Réseau pour l'Environnement et leDéveloppement Durable en Afrique REDDA24 PO Box 95 Guichet Annexe BADAbidjan - Côte d’IvoireTél. : +22520205419 Fax : +225 20 20 59 22E-mail : [email protected]; [email protected] Site Internet : http://www.nesda.kabissa.org Contact person : Prof. Pascal Valentin Houénou

Ministère d’Etat, ministère des Affaires étrangères Cabinet du MinistreAbidjan - Côte d’IvoireTel. : +225 20 22 71 50/20 22 71 26Tel DAF : +225 20 33 24 26Fax : +225 20 33 17 96E-mail : [email protected]

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GABON

Ministère de l’Economie Forestière, des Eaux, dela Pêche, de l’Environnement Chargé de laProtection de la NatureLibreville, République du GabonTél. : +241 06 10 96 72E-mail : [email protected] person : Camille Okomo

GAMBIA

Ministry of Fisheries, Natural Resources andenvironmentState House5, Marina ParadeBanjul - GambiaTél.: +220 227548Fax: +220 223987/+220 4392179Email : [email protected]

GHANA

Forestry CommissionPO Box M434 Accra - GHANATel : +233 (21) 221-315/ 664 654/662360Fax : + 233 (21) 220 818/66 476E-mail : [email protected] Contact person : Mr Agyeman Prempeh([email protected])

Environmental Protection Association of Ghana(EPAG)Project ManagerAsawasiP.O.Box AS 32 Kumasi - GhanaTel : +233 (51) 29950 / 027883637 / 244760994Fax : +233 (51) 29537/29950E.mail : [email protected] Internet : http://epag.virtualactivism.org Contact person : John K. Owusu, Executive Director

Green Earth Organization (GEO)PO Box AN 16641 Accra North - GhanaTel : +233 (21) 232-762Fax : +233 (21) 230-455E-mail : [email protected] Website : www.greenearth.org.ghContact person : George Ahadzie, Executive Director

Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG)University PO Box 63 Kumasi - Ashanti Ghana Tel : +233 (51) 60123/+233 51 60373Fax : +233 (51) 60121Email : [email protected]; [email protected] : http://www.forig.org/forig/history.html Contact person : Dr Dominic Blay, Mobile : +233 244221862

Institutte of Cultural Affairs - Ghana (ICA-Ghana)P.O BOX: OS 2060 osu, Accra - GhanaTel/Fax : +233 21 221343 E.mail : [email protected] Contact person : Joseph Kekesi, Executive Director

GUINEA

Ministère de l'EnvironnementDirection Nationale de la Protection de la nature PO Box.761Conakry – GuineaTel : +224 46 78 79 Contact person : Bakary Keita ([email protected]) Mobile Phone: +224 60 33 72 82

GUINEA-BISSAU

Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, InternationalCoopération et des communautésP.O. Box 3 Bissau Guinea-Bissau Tel : +254 20 27 52 / 20 37 64 Email : [email protected] Contact person : Artur Silva – Tel: +245 662 92 72

Centro de Investigaçao Pesqueira Aplicada (CIPA) Avenida Amilcar Cabral C.P. 102 Bissau, Guinea-BissauTel : +245 720 19 65 / 671 89 61Email : [email protected] person : Virginia Pires Correia

TINIGUENA (This Land is Ours)Bairro de Belem PO Box. 667 Bissau Guinea-BissauTel : +245 25 19 07Fax : +245 25 19 06Email : [email protected] Contact person : Augusta Henriques

Bureau de Planification Côtière (Gabinete dePlanificaçao Coteira – GPC)Bissau PO Box 23 1031 Guinea-BissauTel : +245 25 51 64Fax : +245 20 11 68E.mail : [email protected] person : Joaozinho Sa Tel: +245 660 66 48 / 720 05 62

Centro de Estudios Ambientais e TecnologiaApropriada do Instituto Nacional de Estudios ePesquisa (CEATA/INEP) Complexo Escular 14 Novembro CP 12 Bissau Guinea -Bissau Tel: ++245 251-867/8 Fax: ++245 251-125Email : [email protected] person : Daniel RodriguesTel: +245 677 88 [email protected]

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Accao Para o Desenvolviento (AD)Apartado 606 Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Tel : +245 25 13 65Fax : +245 25 13 65Email : [email protected] person : Tomane CamaraTel: +245 660 24 48

Direction Générale des Forêts et de la chasse(Direcção Geral das Florestas e Caça)EX-QG No. 71Bissau - Guinea-Bissau Tel: ++245 223-043 Fax: ++245 222-834; ++245 221-019 Email (alternative) : [email protected]

Grupo de Apoio à Educação e ComunicaçãoAmbiental "PALMEIRINHA" (GAECA)25 rua Dr Severino Gomes de PinaS/C UICNApartado 23 Codex 1031BissauGuinea-Bissau Tel : +254 661-2323 Fax : +254 201-168 Email : [email protected];[email protected]

Instituto da Biodiversidade e das AreasProtegidas (IBAP)Rua São Tomé, Casa N° 6ACP 70 Bissau - Guinea-Bissau Tel : +245 207-106Email : [email protected]

Associaçao de Promoção do DesenvolvimentoNas Ilhas (ONGD NANTINYAN)CP :N° 436Bissau - Guinea-BissauTel: ++254 724-1800 Email:[email protected] person: Mr Fernando Saldanha,Secrétaire Général

EQUATORIAL GUINEA

Ministerio de Pesca Y Medio AmbienteMalabo - République de Guinée EquatorialeTél. : +240 24 46 36Fax : +240 09 29 05 E-mail : [email protected] person : Deogracias Ikaka Nzamio

MALI

Ministère de l'Environnement et del’Assainissement P.O. Box 1634 Bamako - MaliTel : +223 20 29 51 68 / 20 29 51 72Fax : +223 20 29 51 70Contact person: Gaoussou dit Emile DEMBELE,Conseiller Technique - Mobile: +223 76 26 90 79Email : [email protected]

Association Malienne pour la Conservation dela Faune et de son Environnement (AMCFE) P.O. Box 2921 Bamako - MaliTel : +223 20 23 51 79Mobile : +223 66 71 82 33Email : [email protected] http://amcfe-mali.voila.fr

Groupe d'Appui Environnemental (WALIA) P.O. Box 215 - Mopti / MaliTel : +223 76 36 87 15 / +223 66 69 79 10 / +223 7601 51 83Email: [email protected], [email protected] Contact person: Alassane BALLO – Président -Coordonnateur (+223 76 36 87 15 / +223 66 69 79 10)

Groupe de recherches et d'applicationstechniques (GRAT) P.O. Box 2502 Bamako - MaliTel/fax : +223 20 29 43 41, Mobile : +223 643 6762Email : [email protected] Contact person: Boubacar Ba, Programme Coordinator([email protected])

ONG DONKO – La promotion des valeurslocales Traditionnel Rue 524, porte 43 QuinzambougouBPE 114 Bamako - MaliTél/fax : + 223 20 21 38 81Mobile : + 223 66 71 97 01Email : [email protected] person: Cheickna SIDIBE, Executive Director

Femmes et Développement (FEDE) Boulkassoumbougou, Route de KoulikoroFace Bureaux de SotubaBamako - Mali Tel : +223 2024 00 77/+223 76 07 73 49Email : [email protected] person: Mme MARIKO Korotoumou THERA

Initiative Action pour le Développement auSahel (IADS) ACI Baco DjicoroniBPE 2995 Bamako - MaliTél : + 223 66 76 39 49/ 223 20 28 81 45 /223 76 3822 02bEmail : [email protected] person: Maïga Aboubacrine([email protected])

MAURITANIA

Association pour la Protection del’Environnement et l’Action Humanitaire (APEAH)Immeuble BMCI – 2ème étage N°13Nouadhibou - Mauritania Tel : +222 574-0597 Email : [email protected]; Contact person: Ahmed Kleib ([email protected])Mobile : +222 6570478

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Direction de l'Environnement et del'Aménagement Rural (DEAR)PO Box. 170 Nouakchott - MauritaniaTel : +222 529-0115 / +222 525 8386Fax : +222 525-8386Contact person : BA, Directeur des Aires Protégées etdu Littoral ([email protected])

Club des Amis de la Nature et de la Protection del'Environnement (CANPE)NouakchottPO Box. 1972 Nouakchott - MauritaniaTel : +222 529-0817/+222 529-2698Fax : +222 525-6421E-mail : [email protected] ; [email protected] Contact person : Mme Jemila MinrtayaMobile : +222 6601981

NIGER

Ministère des Affaires Etrangères, de laCoopération et de l’Intégration africaineNiamey 396 - NigerTel : +227 732-149/+227 735-292Fax : +227 735-231Contact person : Saddy Halimatou Djibo([email protected] )

NIGERIA

Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF)PO Box 74638 Lagos, Victoria Island - NigériaTel : +234 (1) 264-2498 (234) 802 3312420Fax : +234 (1) 264-2497Email : [email protected] person : Prof. Obot ([email protected]) - Tel.:+234 1 4746375; Mobile: +234 8023312420Alternative: [email protected]

Nigerian Environmental Study Action Team (NEST) 1 Oluokun Street, Off Awolowo Avenue, BodijaUI.P.O.BOX 22025 Ibadan, Oyo-State, NigeriaTel. : +234 2 7517172Fax : +234 2 8105213Email : [email protected] [email protected] Contact person : Dr David Okali, Executive Director([email protected])Site internet: www.nestinteractive.org

Savannah Conservation Nigeria (SNC)PO Box 2266 Kaduna - NigériaTel : +234 (62) 217-965E-Mail : [email protected] person : Muyiwa Olowokure([email protected])

Centre for Environmental Resources &Sustainable Ecosystems (CE-RASE)No. 49 Norman Williams St. S.W. IkoyiPO Box 71569, V.I. Lagos - Nigeria Tel : +234 (1) 267 0821 Fax : +234 (1) 269-0210 / 267Email : [email protected] person : Mrs Uzoamaka Egbuche, Director([email protected])

RWANDA

Association Rwandaise des Ecologistes PO Box 3967 Kigali - RwandaTel: ++250 518-310 Email : [email protected] person : M. Aloys Nsabimana

SAO TOME & PRINCIPE

Ministério dos Recursos Naturais et MeioAmbiente, Direction Générale de l’Environnement Av. Kwame KhrumaPO Box : 1.023 Sao ToméRepublica Democratica de Sao Tomé et PrincipeTél. : +239-22 60 17 – 90 40 18Fax : +239- 22 61 56E-mail : [email protected] ;[email protected] person : Arlindo Carvalho

SENEGAL

Ministère de l'Environnement et de la Protectionde la NaturePO Box : 4055 Dakar - SénégalTel : +221 889 0234 / 889 0233Fax : +221 823-5558 / 822 8081Email : [email protected] Site : http://www.environnement.gouv.sn Contact person : Ndiawar Dieng ([email protected])

Association Sénégalaise des Amis de la Nature(ASAN)PO Box : 12966 Dakar, Colobane, SénégalTel : +221 569 4331Fax : +221 824-9246Email : [email protected] Contact person : Mamadou Diallo, Président([email protected])

ENDA-Tiers Monde 5, rue Kléber, Dakar - SénégalTel : +221 822 4229/842 8250Fax : +221 826 - 2695E-mail : [email protected] ; [email protected] person : Aby Dramé ([email protected]) Site Internet: http://www.enda.sn

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Centre de Suivi Ecologique (CSE)Rue Léon Gontran Damas Fann RésidencePO Box 15532, Dakar-Fann - SénégalTél : +221 825 8066/67Fax : +221 825 8168Email : [email protected]; Site Internet : http://www.cse.sn Contact person : Amadou Moctar Niang ([email protected])

West African Association for Marine Environment(WAAME) 193,HLM Hann MaristesPO Box 26352 Dakar - Senegal Tel : +22133832-5113 / Fax:+22133832-4413Email : [email protected] person : M. Abdoulaye Diame([email protected])

SIERRA LEONE

Environmental Foundation for Africa (EFA)PMB 34Freetown penincula - Sierra LeoneTel : +232 766 11410 Tél Mobile : + 232 766 84832 + 232 766 23459 (Admin Officer - Jeneba Sesay)Email : [email protected] Website : http://www.efasl.org.ukContact person : Tommy Garnett, Director([email protected]; [email protected])

TOGO

Les Amis de la Terre-Togo (ADT-TOGO)63, rue Amoussimé – Tokoin CasablancaPO Box : 20 190 Lomé, Golfe 02Tél. : +228 2221731Fax : +228 2221732Email : [email protected] Site internet : www.amiterre.tg Contact person : Mensah Todzro, Executive Director([email protected])Mobile: +228 9472245

Les Compagons Ruraux (LCR)Rue Adolescent EpanouiPO Box 92 Kpalimé Kloto - Togo Tel: ++228 441-1443 Fax: ++228 441-1444 Email : [email protected] person : Jules ADJIMA, Executive Director

IUCN offices in Westand Central Africa

IUCN - Burkina FasoPO Box : 3331 Ouagadougou 01

Tel : +226 50 32 85 01Fax : +226 50 30 75 61E-mail : [email protected]

IUCN – CameroonPO Box : 5506 YaoundéTel : +237 22 21 64 96Fax : +237 22 21 64 97

E-mail : [email protected]

IUCN - Guinea BissauApartado 23, Bissau 1031

Tel : +245 20 12 30Fax : +245 20 11 68


IUCN - MaliPO Box : 1567 BamakoTel : +223 20 22 75 72 Fax : +223 20 23 00 92


IUCN - MauritaniaPO Box : 4167 Nouakchott

Tel : +222 525 12 76Fax : +222 525 12 67


IUCN - NigerPO Box : 10933 Niamey

Tel : +227 20 72 4005Fax : +227 20 72 2405


IUCN – Democratic Republic of Congo43, avenue Colonel Ebeya

Immeuble CAP IMMOTel : +243 817947711 E-mail : [email protected]

IUCN - SénégalPO Box : 3215 Dakar

Tel : +221 33 869 02 80Fax : +221 33 824 92 46


Project office of GhanaPO Box M239 Accra

Tel : (233) 021 66 46 54Fax : (233) 021 66 64 76


IUCN – Komadugu Yobe Basin Project (Nigeria)Private mail Bag 3139, Kano

Tel./Fax: (234) 64 635 779 (general)E-mail : [email protected]

Site web : www.kyb-project.net

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iUcn-cWaP PUblicaTions

Aspects contemporain dudroit de l’environnement enAfrique de l’Ouest etCentrale; UICN; 2008; 224 pages

Trinational de la Sangha -Directives relatives auxapproches de conservationet de développement despaysages de forêts dans leBassin du Congo; UICN -Programme Forêts; 2008; 18 pages

Parcs et réserves deMauritanie - Evaluation del’efficacité de la gestion desaires protégées; UICN-PACO; 2008; 44 pages

Parcs et réserves du Togo -Evaluation de l’efficacité de lagestion des aires protégées;UICN-PACO; 2008; 44 pages

Parcs et réserves de Guinée- Evaluation de l’efficacité dela gestion des airesprotégées; UICN-PACO;2008; 44 pages

Parcs et réserves du Mali -Evaluation de l’efficacité de lagestion des aires protégées;UICN-PACO; 2008; 44 pages

Gender and equity in theProtected areas of WestAfrica; UICN-PAPACO; 2008;84 pages

Negotiating equitablefisheries access agreements:A capacity-building &reference manual fordeveloping coastal states;IUCN-Sénégal; 2008; 304pages

Parcs et réserves du Côted’Ivoire - Evaluation del’efficacité de la gestion desaires protégées; UICN-PACO; 2008; 48 pages

Parcs et réserves du Tchad -Evaluation de l’efficacité de lagestion des aires protégées;UICN-PACO; 2008; 52 pages

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finances


The total income of the IUCN PACO in 2008 amounted 8.05 million Euros, which is stable as comparedto 2007. Although the Netherlands remains the major donor to IUCN Central and West Africaprogramme, the sources of funding is more balanced than in the past.

SOURCES OF FUNDS SPENT IN 2008

The IUCN PACO first exercise shows expenditures distribution between the former regional offices inCentral and West Africa. These former regional offices have continued to manage projects implementedin countries without IUCN offices. The Democratic Republic of Congo is a newly established countryprogramme. The Burkina Faso programme has substantially increased in 2008 compared to 2007.

EXPENDITURES BREAK-DOWN BY OFFICE

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