Activities in Senegal

PROJECT TITLE

Training Program in the Field of the Fight against Coastal Erosion

TYPE OF COOPERATION

Technical Cooperation

TARGET REGION

Japan

IMPLEMENTATION PERIOD

2010-2012

RECIPIENT

Engineers, scientists, researchers / specializing in coastal engineering university, river engineering, hydraulic engineering and geology of different ministries, national agencies, university institutes and local government of Senegal

OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT

This training in Japan was aimed to strengthen the capacity of those involved in the fields related to coastal erosion, in order to enable them to address issues posed by the coastal erosion.

PROJECT SUMMARY

The capacity development is essential in Official Development Assistance (ODA) policy of Japan in favor of Africa because it is a vector of socio-economic development. It is in this context that this training project was initiated.
It allowed participants:

• To acquire skills to enable them to formulate effective preventive measures against coastal erosion
  through basic knowledge of the mechanisms of coastal erosion and the lessons learned in Japan;
• To acquire skills and knowledge on methodologies for monitoring, calculation and design of structural measures;
• To acquire technical knowledge to make recommendations to policy makers;
• To study intersectoral collaborative measures with stakeholders.

In addition, this training was rich in facilitation mechanisms specially developed in collaboration with the most important organizations of Japan, and field visits precisely at sites that have experienced significant adverse effects of coastal erosion and for which adequate measures have been implemented, which helped to increase the knowledge of participants (at the rate of thirty ten per year for a period of three weeks during three years) and find possible solutions to the threat represented by the coastal erosion in Senegal.