Country Initiatives Details
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,289,155 CAD
- 2020 to 2021: $1,817,393 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $1,176,296 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $295,466 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cabo Verde
Chile
Colombia
Côte d'Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Niger
Nigeria
Peru
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Mitigation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada supports countries in the Pacific Alliance (Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) and Western Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo) to define regional priorities to address greenhouse gas (GHG) and short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) emissions and to pursue opportunities to strengthen their capacity to measure, report, and verify (MRV) emissions. This project will facilitate South-South MRV collaboration and knowledge sharing within and between the Pacific Alliance and West Africa as a mean of exchanging best practices and supporting the replication of best practices generated from Canada’s climate finance sectoral projects in each region. Through capacity-building and regional collaboration efforts, this project will support countries to achieve their respective Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC).
Results/Expected Outcomes
This project supports efforts by the Pacific Alliance and Western African countries to:
• Increase awareness and familiarization of climate targets, policies and the status of climate MRV systems in each nation in order to strengthen MRV capacity and support NDC implementation.
• Support approaches to strengthen institutional arrangement, climate governance structures and improve the effectiveness of national climate MRV systems within each nation.
• Support harmonization of climate MRV within the region, including mitigation activities, emission inventories and climate finance.
The project provides support to the Pacific Alliance's Technical Sub-Group on MRV and Climate Change (SGT-MRVCC) to implement the Presidential Mandate to cooperate on MRV in a manner that helps mobilize climate finance, enhance ambition of climate actions and support NDC implementation with the Pacific Alliance.
To support the countries to achieve these objectives, the project will engage in capacity building, provide technical expertise, and facilitate inter- and intra-regional collaboration and dialogues.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,633,166 CAD
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- 2020 to 2021: $144,266 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $120,000 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $731,003 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $535,058 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $1,102,839 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Democratic Republic of Congo
Haiti
Senegal
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
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UPA DI - Union des producteurs agricoles - développement international
Description
The project’s objective is to strengthen small farming business organizations’ and their members’ capacities to ensure sustainable agricultural development. Strengthening small farming business organizations improves farmers’ access to production and marketing services necessary to improve nutrition and livelihoods.
This project promotes agro-ecological practices, which increases the resilience of agriculture to climate change while also reducing its greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. Project activities include, for example, the creation of training and outreach tools on resilience to climate change, gender equality, and governance.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Among the results achieved to date:
• 853 out of 1066 women belonging to the targeted households say they are satisfied or very satisfied with their access to knowledge and to innovations in sustainable agricultural practices because of the project’s training. This increased knowledge of innovations contributes to the resilience of families of agricultural entrepreneurs by implementing knowledge in the form of sustainable practices.
• 221,173 person-days of training (10,045 women-days). Person-days is the sum of the amount of training days for each person. The training included training to establishing economic services in villages and training for leaders of agricultural producer organizations skills to develop group services.
• 460 financial supports totalling $324,262 provided to agricultural producers.
• 1,130 additional hectares are being managed in an environmentally responsible manner by using a soil-conservation practice and not using chemical fertilizers.
• The average crop production by farm household for Haiti and Senegal increased from 2,931 kg to 6,805 kg between 2015 and 2018.
• After Hurricane Matthew, 650 families received one food kit each. Altogether, 13,000 kg of improved seeds, 1,500 goats, 2,000 chickens and 2,500 kg of animal feed were distributed; 455 hectares of land were put back into production.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,169,067 CAD
- 2020 to 2021: $1,351,362 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $1,274,109 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $543,596 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The project aims to improve the socio-economic well-being and resilience of agricultural households, especially women and youth, through climate-friendly agricultural and irrigation practices. The project approach aims to adopt innovative and affordable technologies, and use climate-smart practices in agriculture. This will include training program for women and youth in financial management, climate change, etc., and development of multi-stakeholder platforms for women and youth for a common dialogue around water resource management. The project focuses on the creation of partnerships with financial institutions to ensure access to finance, and with private companies to buy agricultural products. The project also aims to disseminate market research on the needs of farming households, especially women and youth, to agricultural input and irrigation service providers.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased socio-economic empowerment of women and youth; (2) sustainable and innovative intensification of irrigated and climate change adapted crops; and (3) improved, sustainable and equitable local governance and territorial management of water resources.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,047,699 CAD
- 2020 to 2021: $1,063,473 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $1,312,365 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $671,861 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
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CECI - Centre for International Studies and Cooperation
Description
The project aims to increase access to economic opportunities that are adapted to climate change in irrigated crop sectors. The project also aims to increase the ability of women and young adults to control agricultural resources and improve their status and decision-making power within their households, communities and farming organizations. It facilitates cooperation among stakeholders of integrated management processes for water resources through irrigated crops adapted to climate change.
The project activities include: identifying common adaptation strategies for climate variability and the resources available to address climate risks; analyzing markets in target sectors to identify cost-effective and innovative opportunities based on climate adaptation priorities; and developing training modules for rising women and youth leaders on rights, leadership, and gender and intergenerational issues.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
The expected outcomes of this project include: 1) increased socio-economic empowerment of women and youth; 2) sustainable and innovative intensification of irrigated agricultural activities adapted to climate change; and 3) improved, sustainable and fair local governance and territorial water management.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$411,736 CAD
- 2020 to 2021: $381,132 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $30,604 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2019 to 2020, 2020 to 2021
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Cross-cutting
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The project aims to implement climate change adaptation measures and mitigation strategies, using three pathways to achieve the ultimate outcome of improving the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate change, especially for poor women, in Kedougou region: (1) support gender-sensitive climate smart agriculture with the production and processing of indigenous drought-resistant crop suited to the local climate; (2) increase women’s role in decision-making for sustainable livelihoods through producing and selling biomass briquettes as an alternative energy source to firewood or charcoal for fuel; and (3) enhance forest carbon sinks by increasing adoption of forest protection practices by local government and community partners in ecologically vulnerable areas.
The project activities that support these outcomes include: providing trainings to farmers from targeted villages on improving planting techniques; providing farmers with indigenous and drought-resistant seeds and agricultural inputs, including innovative soil testing kits and husking machines; training women-led economic development groups on how to create and market biomass briquettes for fuel; training community members on sustainable forest product harvesting and bush fire prevention; seeding 28,000 indigenous plants; and promoting agroforestry and the use of indigenous tree species to enhance forest carbon sinks.
The project is targeting 712 women and 809 men from various community groups (i.e. farmers, forest monitors, economic groups) representing a variety of socially most vulnerable as beneficiaries in 21 villages.
Senegal is highly susceptible to the impact of climate change, including erratic rainfall patterns, frequent floods, prolonged droughts, and increasing rates of soil erosion. Finding adaptation solutions is a priority particularly for poor households that are most vulnerable to climate shocks.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
To date, the project has:
• Provided technical support to the Jane Goodall Institute Senegal team with finance and compliance.
• Completed required in-country administrative and bureaucratic procedures.
• Started preparing training modules and material for two planned outputs: Training on sustainable harvest of forest products and bush fire prevention provided to community members in targeted villages (1311); and Training of Réserve Naturelle Communautaire de Dindéfélo staff and community-based forest monitors on firebreak management and fire prevention (1322).
• Conducted introductory meetings in the targeted villages for environmental analysis.
• Started the recruitment process of the gender and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) consultants, and drafted the Terms of Reference for their respective activities, such as an in-depth gender analysis and development of M&E tools.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$2,120,000 CAD
- 2019 to 2020: $418,000 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $1,702,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Côte d'Ivoire
Senegal
Funding Period: 2018 to 2019, 2019 to 2020
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Mitigation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
Canada is supporting Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) and short-lived climate pollutant (SLCP) emissions in their waste sectors and implementing their respective Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC). This project focuses on building capacity, and developing and implementing policy frameworks, including regulations and industry standards to reduce methane emissions from landfills.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Thus far, this project has developed two national strategies for Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal respectively on composting and biogas.
The overall objective of the project is to strengthen the policy framework, enhance capacity of countries and support pilot compost and biogas plants to facilitate emission reduction in the waste sector. Besides environmental benefits, the project will also create social (public health and food security) and economic benefits (job creation).
The project has four (4) components as follows:
• Strengthening policies framework to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (SLCPs) in municipal solid waste sector;
• Technical and operational capacity building for data monitoring, reporting and verification in the waste sector;
• Implementation of a pilot project; and
• Regional coordination and experiences sharing.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$1,439,102 CAD
- 2018 to 2019: $386,339 CAD
- 2017 to 2018: $612,615 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $440,148 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018, 2018 to 2019
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
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Compagnie nationale d'assuranceagricole du Sénégal
Description
The aim of this project is to extend the network of rain-gauges (meteorological instruments that measure precipitations) throughout southern Senegal, mainly in the Casamance Region, to collect basic rainfall data that is required to roll out agricultural index insurance in this region, contributing to climate change adaptation.
The initiative has three objectives:
1. To expand the area of agricultural index insurance coverage in order to reduce the number of small agricultural producers who do not have access to insurance services;
2. To assist financial institutions in their agricultural insurance integration policy; and,
3. To build the capacity of the authorities responsible for collecting, analyzing and disseminating rainfall data.
Project activities include, the purchasing and installing of 165 rain gauges, and preparing and holding information sessions for producers on agricultural index insurance services and helping them to prepare the necessary paperwork to gain insurance.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
Results achieved to date include:
• 25 automated rain gauges and five agro-meteorology stations have been installed;
• Four weather forecast bulletins were broadcasted;
• Agricultural index insurance training/awareness building was conducted with 10,000 corn producers (25% women),10,000 rain-fed rice producers (40% women) and 4,000 peanut producers (15% women)
• 3,056 corn producers (42% women), 4,652 rice producers (32% women) and 3,532 peanut producers (25% women) have access to agricultural index insurance;
• $3,551,505 CAD in crop-year credits are covered by agricultural index insurance, 89% of the annual target.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$664,952 CAD
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- 2017 to 2018: $164,952 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $500,000 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Ghana
Mali
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
This project aims to improve the food security status of people living in poor rural communities in Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone and Senegal. It works to increase the adoption of agricultural practices that promote sustainable livelihoods; improve the utilization of health food especially by women and children; and increase the effectiveness and use of agricultural extension services. The project is expected to reach around 45,000 subsistence farmers and their families and around 1,400 members of farmer associations and purchasing groups, as well as local agriculture authorities. It is expected to increase ability of communities to respond to and mitigate natural resource degradation and climate-related shocks and stresses in a gender equitable manner.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
By the end of the project, around half of households reported having access to an early warning system and that their community has a community safety net. Around 75.4% of male and 74.6% of female-headed households feel very confident or confident in their ability to implement natural resource protection measures. The natural resource management practices mentioned most frequently were preparing fields without burning crop residues (60.4%), rotation of crops with nitrogen fixing crops (46.1%), and land fallow (40.5%).
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$155,726 CAD
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- 2017 to 2018: $39,143 CAD
- 2016 to 2017: $116,583 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2016 to 2017, 2017 to 2018
Financial Instrument:
Grant
Type of Support:
Adaptation
Delivery Partner(s):
Description
The project aims to help Senegal to achieve rice self-sufficiency and to reduce poverty by supporting the National Program for Rice Self-sufficiency. The purpose of the Program is to increase rice production in the self-managed perimeters of the Senegal River Valley to meet the needs of 600,000 people each year, especially in rural areas. The project revolves around two major components: (1) availability of funds for rice producers to procure inputs to increase their production; and (2) capacity building of rural organizations to develop effective procurement and marketing services.
The project aims to increase the use of good sustainable agricultural practices by producers through development and dissemination of guide for the promotion of sustainable rice cultivation practices. These tools include approaches adapted to climate change, soil conservation, the safe use of fertilizers and pesticides, and the conservation of water resources.
For more information, please visit Global Affairs Canada's Project Browser.
Results/Expected Outcomes
The achieved results of the project include:
(1) 80% adoption rate of the tools for sustainable agricultural practices;
(2) contribution to increased paddy rice production;
(3) an increase in producer revenue;
(4) contribution to the development and promotion of new financial products in the region including crop insurance, harvest credits and post-harvest credits allowed producers to better respect the agricultural calendar and secure their agricultural activities;
(5) adaptation, publication and dissemination of a guide to good agricultural practices, facilitating the use of more sustainable and environment-friendly agricultural techniques;
(6) support for the production and use of certified seeds enabling to reduce production costs and improving access to quality agricultural inputs at the right time;
(7) construction of six storage facilities allowing to reduce lost stocks of more than 8,542 producers, including 3,882 women;
(8) construction of eleven rice processing and commercialization facilities (mini rice mills) for the benefit of 3,275 women.
These results have contributed to improving the socioeconomic conditions of rice producers in the Senegal River Valley and have contributed to the country’s objectives with regard to increasing its rice self-sufficiency.
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Canada’s Total Climate Finance Contribution:
$3,014,537 CAD
- 2012 to 2013: $3,014,537 CAD
Targeted Countries:
Senegal
Funding Period: 2012 to 2013
Delivery Partner(s):
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Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles
Description
Through the $23.2 million Canada Fund for African Climate Resilience, Canada provided support to activities that aimed at reducing poverty among the people of Senegal’s Saloum Islands by improving the ability of 870 women in three villages to adapt to climate change. Low levels of precipitation over the last 35 years have contributed to desertification and have reduced access to fresh water. This has reduced food production, adversely affected mangrove ecosystems, and reduced biodiversity, which in turn has reduced shellfish and fish stocks.
Results/Expected Outcomes
With support from Canada’s contribution, this initiative was able to achieve various results. Some of the key results achieved include:
- the installation of eight plots seeding experiments in targeted mudflats
- consultations with GIE presidents to determine their current and future needs transformation were held
- the participation of young men and women in the reforestation of targeted areas, such as Falia and Dionewar