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A community solar-powered lighting installation to facilitate access to electricity in Casamance
Although Senegal has great solar potential, in 2016 only 56.5% of the population had access to electricity. With financial support from the FFEM, Sunna Design has installed community solar-powered lig...
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Restoring forests and landscapes and sustainably managing land in the Sahel
The populations of Burkina Faso and Niger rely on land subjected to intense biophysical and human pressure due to ecological, economic and social reasons. By supporting a project combating the degrada...
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Extending access to energy and solar technologies in the rural environments
The rural populations of Vanuatu and Indonesia frequently lack basic access to electricity, in particular for lighting, phone charging or electrically-powered crop mills. In supporting this project to...
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"Porto-Novo, Green City: Strategic Planning and Sustainable Developments
To offer the city and its inhabitants a vision for urban development that integrates the principles of sustainable development through a strategic planning approach.
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A modulation power plant for Cameroon
The electrical energy sector in Cameroon has been experiencing significant growth in its peak demand for a number of years owing to strong urban demand. It is set to see its basic needs increase due t...
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FISP Climat - HAMPARAN: Production of biogas from effluent and by-products of a cassava starch factory
Demonstrating the efficiency of a technology that can create, in rural areas of developing countries, electricity, heat and biomethane fuel from a local and renewable source, while significantly cont...
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Support for the integrated management of the bays of Hai Phong, Ha Long and Bai Tu Long
Contributing to the sustainable development of Ha Long Bay, Bai Tu Long Bay and the Hai Phong estuary, by developing integrated coastal zone management in these three areas based on a “bay contract” a...
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Agroforestry Technical Assistance Facility (ATAF)
The programme promotes the development of agroforestry-based sustainable agriculture, by supporting small-scale farmers, through a Public-Private Partnership with agroforestry companies.
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Combined solar greenhouse and solar panel in Dominican Republic electricity power station and pumping centre
Integrating the combination of renewable source electricity generation, the implementation in the Caribbean islands and agricultural activities in the same space.
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Conservation of the Banc d'Arguin National Park and other Mauritanian coastal and marine protected areas
The Conservation Trust Fund BACOMAB will finance the conservation of the Banc d'Arguin National Park and other Mauritanian coastal and marine protected areas. FFEM will contribute to the endowment f...
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Experimental Platform for the Management of Rural Territories in Legal Amazonia (PETRA)
Developing a platform for support, exchanges and environmental, social and economic observation for research and sustainable development in the north-west region of Mato Grosso and Brazil’s Amazonian...
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Activity report 2018-2019
For 25 years, the French Facility for Global Environment (FFEM) has been financing projects that combine environmental conservation with local development in the global South. Our initiatives are squa...
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The role of marine protected areas in sustaining fisheries: The case of the National Park of Banc d’Arguin, Ma...
Mauritania is characterized by fast-growing fisheries that have developed over the past several decades from low levels of fishing to intense fishing and have led to severe decreases in biomass and se...
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Mauritania’s Economic and Social Ambitions Collide: The Story of Diawling Park
Over the past decade, Mauritania has made progress on the security and political stability fronts but has largely skirted social justice and equity questions. Such questions are never too far from the...
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Manual on reinforcing the skill-sets of pastoral units in Senegal
Pastoral livestock is essential to the survival of communities, as it allows them to develop and maintain otherwise unusable land. This is the situation in the Ferlo region of north-eastern Senegal, w...
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Guide on implementing and managing pastoral units in Senegal.
To address the large number of approaches to implementing pastoral units, in 2017 Agronomes et Vétérinaires Sans Frontières, under the co-ordination of the Ministry of Livestock and Animal Production,...
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Brochure presenting the Avaclim project
Global warming is impacting ecosystems and biodiversity globally, but particularly so in arid regions. The Avaclim project, supported by the FFEM and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) promotes...
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