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This five-year, $48.9 million dollar project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) addresses direct and indirect drivers of natural resource degradation to improve livelihoods and natural ecosystems across the West Africa region. The project will work with partners at the community, national, and regional levels, including the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Manu River Union (MRU), to strengthen policies and systems that will improve natural resource management and the health and resilience of selected coastal and upland forest ecosystems. The project is divided into three components: combating wildlife trafficking, building coastal climate resilience, and improving forest conservation through a landscape approach. An implementing partner with Tetratech, CIESIN contributes to the last two components through coastal vulnerability assessment, climate information for adaptation, and remote sensing analysis for forest carbon assessment. PUBLICATIONS
CIESIN conducted an in-depth vulnerability assessment of the coastal (mangrove) communities of Sierra Leone, addressing both social and ecosystem vulnerability: Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment in Mangrove Regions of Sierra Leone Full Report (January 2018, 200 pages, 13 MB PDF) and Abridged version (May 2017, 48 pages, 8.6 MB PDF 8.6 MB). MORE INFORMATION For more information on WA BiCC, visit the project Web site or Facebook page. |
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