In Senegal, the Natural Resources Management Project (SENRM) has allocated a budget of 4.161 billion CFA francs to the Kolda region. This was indicated on Friday, June 28, 2024, by the coordinator of the environmental component of the said project.
To this end, Ndèye Coura Mbaye, suggested that “important activities in the management of fisheries and forest resources are planned in the Kolda region.”
Ms. Mbaye was speaking during a meeting to share the objectives of the Natural Resources Management Project in Senegal (SENRM), chaired by the prefect of Kolda, Mbassa Séne.
She cited, among other things, the development of 6 new community forests, the revision and implementation of the development plans of 4 previously managed community forests.
Continuing her speech, she added that “it is planned, in the region, the demarcation and marking of 17 classified forests, the construction of the forest sector of Medina Yoro Foulah and forest sorting in Bourouco and Badion”.
SENRM “also plans in the region a diversification of sources of income for communities through the implementation of 21 sub-projects and equipment to be offered to the water and forestry service,” she further indicated.
The coordinator of the environmental component of the Natural Resources Management Project in Senegal indicated that the project is implemented by the Ministry of the Environment and Ecological Transition and that of Fisheries, Maritime and Port Infrastructure, in the regions of Kaffrine, Kédougou, Kolda, Sédhiou and Tambacounda, for the Environment component.
It also operates in the regions of Dakar, Fatick Saint-Louis, Thiès and Ziguinchor, as well as Kédougou, Kolda and Sédhiou, where SENRM targets the fishing component, she added.
For his part, the prefect of Kolda Mbassa Séne invited local stakeholders to preserve natural resources for future generations.
“The project comes at the right time in Kolda, a region facing massive deforestation which has consequences on the climate,” he added, calling on everyone to protect forest resources for future generations.
The Natural Resources Management Project in Senegal is financed by the World Bank to the tune of one hundred million US dollars (61,450,000,000 FCFA) for a period of six years (2022-2028).
The government’s objective, through this project, is to improve, by 2028, the management of fisheries and forest resources as well as access to economic opportunities in the target areas which cover almost the entire national territory.
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