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Republic of Senegal Ministry of Environment,
Protection of Nature, Reservoirs and Artificial
Lakes

• Project for the Management and Restoration of
  Degraded Lands in the Groundnut Basin

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• I. Project Description
• Objectives
• Intervention area
• Implementation strategy
• II. Outcome
• III. Lessons learnt and Way Forward

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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

• Issues
• Senegal a Sahelian country located in the
  westernmost area of the continent, extending over
  196 720 km² with a population of 11 million
  inhabitants, approximately 60.5 rural,
  characterized by
• the degradation of its natural resources.
• population growth rates of 2.9 in urban areas
  and 2.1 in rural areas
• Over 65 of the land (12,711,000 ha) are
  degraded, due among others to a trading economy
  based mainly on groundnut mono-cropping, soil
  exhaustion, the absence of fallow and the
  degradation of the vegetation cover, particularly
  in the groundnut basin.

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PROJECT OBJECTIVES, DURATION AND COSTS

• PROGERT Objective Catalyze sustainable land
  management using a landscape approach in order to
  combat land degradation and reduce poverty.
• Duration 5 years
• Effective start-up date 1 October 2007
• Budget
• GEF
  US3,655,728
• UNDP US500,000
  
• Government - Cash US623,000
• - In-kind
  US778,112
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PROGERT INTERVENTION AREA
SENEGALS GAZETTED FORESTS
Protected areas
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STRATEGY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENT

• The basic strategy is the landscape approach, a
  holistic, participatory approach taking into
  account the geographic, technical, institutional,
  social and economic dimensions.
• It is applied through a thematic and zonal
  process.

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MEPNBRLA /DEFCCS
Project Steering Committee (MEF -MEF

Project Coordination Unit (PCU) Coord/Exp
SE/Ass/Fin/Acctng/Supp
Consultation Frameworks
Regional Development Agencies
Decentralized Technical Services / NGOs
Local Project Unit (LPU) Chief
Technicians Louga
LPU Chief Techni- cians Thiès
LPU Chief Expert in microproject management
Technicians Diourbel
LPU Chief Technicians Fatick
Reinforced LPU Chief Participation Expert
Technicians Kaolack
CRs, CADLs Technical Services
CRs, CADLs Technical Services
CRs, CADLs Technical Services
CRs, CADLs Technical Services
CRs, CADLs Technical Services
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MAIN ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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Management of tillable land fertility

• Elaboration of 6 out of 15 local development
  plans for enhanced integration of sustainable
  land management
• Establishment of 135 ha of ecologically
  sustainable fields for demonstration, out of a
  target of 200 ha
• Evaluation of carbon sequestration potential of
  the projects 15 operational sites
• Restoration of 270 ha of saline lands, i.e. 50
  of the target.

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Sustainable use of lands and pastures

• Establishment of five pastoral units for a total
  of 55,000 ha
• Enclosure and participatory management of 2,200
  ha of community or gazetted forests, i.e. 30 of
  the target
• Creation of 100 km of fire-breaks in the Louga
  and Kaffrine regions, i.e. 50 of the target
• Establishment of a Monitoring Evaluation and
  capitalization scheme.

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Promotion of Sustainable Livelihoods

• Creation of two revolving credit schemes for the
  population Village Savings and Credit Banks
  aimed at supporting income-generating activities
  linked to sustainable land management.

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• LESSONS LEARNT
• AND WAY FORWARD

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• The PROGERT institutional location at
  decentralized services level promotes exchanges
  between decision-makers and the population within
  enhanced partnerships, for a more global vision
  transcending administrative limits with greater
  focus on ecogeographic entities and creating
  forums around memoranda.
• The natural resources management models developed
  by the project promote greater accountability on
  the part of the local actors this requires an
  intervention extending over a period of at least
  ten years.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION