Senegal: Expanding access to environmental finance - Reversing the decline in forest ecosystem services
JOINT PROGRAMME QUICK FACTS
Total Budget $4,000,000
Delivery Rate
Participating Agencies UNESCO, WFP, UNIDO, UNEP, UNDP, FAO, IOM
Main Achievements
- Capacity-building on forestry management and forest ecosystems completed for national and local officials; significant progress made in public education and awareness-building.
- Mapping and surveys conducted on Senegal’s different ecosystems. Database completed on food security and vulnerability with environmental considerations.
- Saloum Delta designated as UNESCO World Heritage site in 2011.
Contact diop-sidiki@yahoo.fr
The primary objective of this project is to reverse the decline in forest ecosystems and to encourage the sustainable use of forest ecosystem services in Senegal. This approach will be complemented by national and local research on population mobility and ecosystem and climate changes in Senegal. The project will achieve the above mentioned objective in two steps.
The first step includes improving the information on the total economic values of critical forest ecosystem services and understanding of the trade-offs among the various ecosystem services across different stakeholders. The second step entails using the information gathered in Step One to guide the present revision of the tax system in Senegal, with a special emphasis on developing eco-taxes and rebates to provide the financial incentives to adopt sustainable use of forest ecosystem services and prevent urban and rural migration.