Water, Land and Ecosystems - Senegal

Scaling up Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) for agricultural resilience and flood-proofing livelihoods in developing countries

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:36:32 +0000

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Amarnath, Giriraj
Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh
Taron, Avinandan

This research report presents the first comprehensive framework of business models in terms of developing, marketing and scaling Index-based flood insurance (IBFI). The report evaluated ten case studies on agricultural insurance schemes (macro, meso and micro levels), globally, to develop public-private partnership business models for creating value (product development) and capturing value (product marketing). This report highlights four broad groups of interrelated factors that influence the uptake and scaling of agricultural insurance: (i) behavioral factors that influence farmers’ enthusiasm to invest in insurance; (ii) financial factors that stipulate governments’ willingness to provide financial support; (iii) legal and regulatory factors, which set ground rules for fair business and govern their adherence by stakeholders; and (iv) facilitating factors, including product design and development, business models, research and development, data availability, and awareness creation, which help ensure an efficient supply of insurance services. In summary, the report highlights the need for designing innovative IBFI and its potential benefits for uptake, and efforts for implementing IBFI as a potential risk transfer tool for comprehensive climate risk management among small-scale and marginal farmers.

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Amarnath, Giriraj; Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh; Taron, Avinandan. 2021. Scaling up Index-based Flood Insurance (IBFI) for agricultural resilience and flood-proofing livelihoods in developing countries. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 68p. (IWMI Research Report 180) [doi: https://doi.org/10.5337/2021.213]

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Faecal sludge management in Africa: socioeconomic aspects and human and environmental health implications

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 11:35:41 +0000

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Southern Africa

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United Nations Environment Programme
International Water Management Institute

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United Nations Environment Programme; International Water Management Institute. 2020. Faecal sludge management in Africa: socioeconomic aspects and human and environmental health implications. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 64p.

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The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:02:41 +0000

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Maheshwari, B.
Purohit, R.
Malano, H.M.M.
Singh, Virendra Pal
Amerasinghe, Priyanie H.

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Maheshwari, B.; Purohit, R.; Malano, H.; Singh, V. P.; Amerasinghe, Priyanie. (Eds.) 2014. The security of water, food, energy and liveability of cities: challenges and opportunities for peri-urban futures. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. 489p. (Water Science and Technology Library Volume 71)

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What do we require from water biotechnologies in Africa?

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:02:41 +0000

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Weissenbacher, N.
Nikiema, Josiane
Garfi, M.
Figoli, A.

When discussing water and sanitation issues, technology is often seen as the key element by many stakeholders. Within a multinational project, the opportunity was taken to analyse the experiences with the existing water infrastructure to look behind this assumption and - if not working satisfactory - to identify the key requirements that obviously have not been met. Following this, it should be possible to prepare a set of requirements to learn from this. A three stage questionnaire for different stakeholder level (authorities, operators and end users) has been launched in Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia. Some main obstacles towards sustainable biological wastewater treatment could then be identified. The reader expecting specific technical suggestions might be disappointed but the key messages that are relevant for all the different conditions of the four North African and the three Sub Saharan countries are presented. The given requirements tackle issues that are unfortunately not only of technical nature and are (almost) all linked to each other.

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Weissenbacher, N.; Nikiema, Josiane; Garfi, M.; Figoli, A. 2013. What do we require from water biotechnologies in Africa? Sustainable Sanitation Practice, 14(January):35-40. (Selected contributions from the 1st WATERBIOTECH conference, Cairo, Egypt, 9-11 October 2012).

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Wastewater treatment practices in Africa - experiences from seven countries

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:02:41 +0000

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Nikiema, Josiane
Figoli, A.
Weissenbacher, N.
Langergraber, G.
Marrot, B.
Moulin, P.

In this paper, existing wastewater treatment practices in 7 African countries, i.e. Algeria, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Senegal and Tunisia, are reported. Data were collected by questioning wastewater treatment plants managers as well as treated wastewater users in 2012. This study showed that 0.2 to 63 L/d/person of wastewater are treated in these countries, with the higher levels obtained for North Africa. Technically, treatment plants (mostly activated sludge and waste stabilization ponds) deal with high organic loads, uncontrolled input, power cuts and increasing wastewater flow rates. Poor operation and maintenance (O&M), in part caused by the lack of funds, high energy costs and lack of re-investments, is also a serious reported issue. Consequently, treatment plants often deliver insufficient effluent quality, which negatively affects the environment and acceptability of stakeholders towards the treated water. Other challenges, such as water availability, long-term impacts, financial and social constraints, affecting the reuse, are also discussed.

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Nikiema, Josiane; Figoli, A.; Weissenbacher, N.; Langergraber, G.; Marrot, B.; Moulin, P. 2013. Wastewater treatment practices in Africa - experiences from seven countries. Sustainable Sanitation Practice, 14(January):26-34. (Selected contributions from the 1st

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Private and public sector involvement in the energy-food nexus

Amanda — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 05:20:00 +0000

The EU funded WABEF project (Western Africa Biowastes for Energy and Fertilizer) is a collaborative project of CIRAD, RUAF Foundation and institutions in Senegal (UCAD and IAGU), Benin (Songhai) and Mali (AEDR) that will disseminate viable anaerobic waste digestion technologies. Overall project activities included: -Implementing an inventory of technologies employing anaerobic digestion of biowaste, adapted to the Sudano-Sahelian context -Development of a tool to compare and choose the most viable technology for a specific situation -Two existing waste treatment plants will be made operational as demonstrators -Technical and policy briefs will be developed -An on line distance learning module will be developed based on the project?s results -A regional school for practitioners and decision-makers? enrichment will be organised With support of WLE a special issue of the UA Magazine has been developed.