Project for Capacity Building for the Restoration and the Promotion of Effective Use in the Areas of Soil Degradation (CODEVAL)
Technical Cooperation
The city of Fatick (Departments of Fatick and Foundiougne) and Kaolack (Departments of Kaolack and Nioro)
2011-2016
Directorate of Water, Forests, Hunting and Soil Conservation (DEFCCS), Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development
This project aims is to provide to the Water and Forestry Agents and local actors, the appropriate capacity to control land degradation and the promotion of their valorization, and also to implement in the field, the techniques relating to them and especially allow the DEFCCS to better handle these issues later.
Kaolack and Fatick face major problems related to the prevalence of soils having a high content of sulfuric acid, the expansion of land with low vegetation, salinization and weakening of arable land. These issues are impacting on people's lives significantly.
It is in this context that JICA under the CODEVAL project by strengthening capacity (transfer of technology and know-how) of the Water and Forestry Agents and local actors involved in sustainable land management.
The project is targeting hundreds of towns localized in four departments cited above, and twenty pilot sites (5 sites in each department).
Based on the strengthening capacity of forest Agents and the results of the initiated activities in the pilot sites, the techniques and technologies tested and developed to restore degraded land, will be popularized and disseminated by the forest service at other sites in target area 20 sites in each department, for a total of 80.
Since its inception, several activities have been carried out. This is among other: