Africa

Senegal

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• Drought in the Senegal River basin, Senegal.

The country hosts a UNESCO Cluster Office in Dakar, which covers Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

The Delta du Fleuve Sénégal Biosphere Reserve, shared by Mauritania and Senegal, was the 2^nd Transboundary Biosphere Reserve established in Africa. Its management is assured by three inter-state bodies and a national committee in each country. A transboundary coordinating committee is in charge of the policy guidelines. It constitutes a good example of a functioning Transboundary Biosphere Reserve.

Below you can access the projects that are currently being implemented in the country within the framework of UNESCO’s Natural Sciences Sector.

Freshwater

- Assessment of Pollution Status and Vulnerability of Water Supply Aquifers of African Cities More

People, Biodiversity and Ecology

- Biosphere Reserves (WNBRs)

- UNESCO-MAB / UNEP-GEF Regional Project on building scientific and technical capacity for effective management and sustainable use of biodiversity in dryland biosphere reserves in West Africa More

- Great Apes Survival Project (GRASP) 

Oceans

- International Oceanographic Commission (IOC) International Oceanographic Data and Information exchange (IODE)

- OceanData and Information Network for Africa (ODINAFRICA)

Earth Sciences

- Pan-African Network for a Geoscience Information System (PANGIS)

- Neoproterozoic ice ages (IGCP, Project 512)

Science Policy and Sustainable Development

- Establishing Science and Technology Parks More

Coasts and Small Islands

- Sustaining human and environmental health in peri-urban coastal communities More

- UNESCO Chair in integrated coastal management and sustainable development, established in 1997 at Cheikh Anta Diop, University of Dakar More

Renewable and Alternative Energies

- Solar lighting for literacy centres More