The main objective of this study was the development of project documents aimed at improving the management and conservation status of existing MPAs (Marine Protected Areas), focusing on community MPAs, and defining priority protection measures for all vulnerable mangrove areas with a view to establishing them as MPAs for the long-term maintenance of the goods and services they offer: capacity building of public and community structures, investments and measures necessary for the operation and sustainability of existing MPAs, evaluation of mangrove restoration projects in the Saloum Delta and Casamance, proposal of a scheme for the implementation of new MPAs.
Protected mangrove: Evaluation of mangrove restoration and conservation projects in the Saloum Delta and Casamance with a view to capitalizing on them in the context of the creation of new marine protected areas
Section
Governance
Date of completion
April to June 2016
Client(s)
COFREPÊCHE with funding from the French Development Agency (AFD)
In partnership with
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Project description
Role of Marepolis
As part of this evaluation and at the end of a 15-day mission in situ, MAREEPOLIS carried out a legal and institutional diagnosis focused on several major points: 1) the general problems identified upstream, at the level of the central administration of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MEDD) and its latest institutional transformations; 2) the more specific and applied issues, relating to the exercise of intervention and coordination skills between the different administrations involved in situ in the application of rules and policies for the protection of mangroves and community marine protected areas (MCPAs). This analysis also included the links with civil society actors, represented by the multiple human, socio-economic and local communities that participate de facto in the governance of these spaces.