End of the project in the Philippines: concrete but sometimes mixed results
From November 2015 to June 2022, FGEF supported the implementation of the “Building Coastal Resilience for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) in small island communities through Green-Grey Infrastructure (GGI) project” in the municipality of Concepcion, Iloilo province, one of the areas severely devastated by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013. […]
Soft solutions in relation to coastal risks
This very rich analysis shows how soft solutions, which are effective responses to coastal erosion, inexpensive, with little negative impact, reversible and complementary to conventional solutions, find their place within the intervention and investment plans. > To the report
Interview with Moussa Sall and Céline Damery: soft solutions against coastal erosion in Senegal (in French)
The French Global Environment Facility (FFEM) has made the resilience of aquatic and coastal ecosystems one of its priority areas of intervention. In Senegal, Togo and Benin, it is financing a project that implements soft solutions to combat coastal erosion, piloted by the Ecological Monitoring Center (CSE) in Dakar, with technical support from the IUCN. […]
First activity report of the WACA-GEF project
The first activity report of the WACA FFEM project (April 2020) reports on the activities of the first year of project implementation (March 2019-February 2020), under the coordination of the CSE. Among the main activities are the following -The processing of many historical data (aerial images, bathymetric data); The constitution of a network of national […]
A practical guide to the implementing green and gray infrastructure
This practical guide, developed by Conservation International (CI), provides tools to identify, plan, design, build and monitor gray-green infrastructure projects with the objective of increasing the resilience of vulnerable communities. The proposed tools are based on Conservation International’s field experience in the Philippines and around the world. Gray-green infrastructure combines the conservation and/or restoration of ecosystems […]