Latest revision as of 16:14, 7 March 2022

General

Name of initiative	West African Coastal Areas Program (WACA)
LPAA initiative	Yes
NAZCA Initiative	Yes
Website address	http://www.wacaprogram.org
Related initiatives
Starting year	2015
End year
Secretariat	The World Bank has assigned the following to liaise with partners interested in supporting the WACA Program: Peter Kristensen, Lead Environment Specialist (pkristensen@worldbank.org), Nicolas Desramaut, Senior Environmental Engineer (ndesramaut@worldbank.org), and Sajid Anwar, Environmental Specialist (sanwar@worldbank.org).
Organisational structure	The WACA Program is hosted by the World Bank. The WACA Program consists of country projects, regional integration and support activities, and a WACA Platform as mechanism to scale-up knowledge, dialogue and finance.
Geographical coverage	West Africa
Name of lead organisation	World Bank
Type of lead organisation	Financial institution
Location/Nationality of lead organisation	United States of America

Description

Description	WACA supports West Africa countries’ effort to improve the management of their shared coastal resources and reduce the natural and man-made risks affecting coastal communities. WACA boosts the transfer of knowledge, foster political dialogue among countries, and mobilize public and private finance to tackle coastal erosion, flooding, pollution and climate change adaptation.
Objectives	The objective is to strengthen the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa. In that respect, WACA aims to enhance the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities of the beneficiary countries and to reduce the shared risks to which they are exposed, either natural or man-made, and that are similar for all or most countries or transboundary in nature.
Activities	Interventions include: 1) WACA national Resilience Investment projects: These include each regional integration and support activities (WAEMU, IUCN, Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Abidjan Convention), strengthening of national policy and institutions, and strengthening national physical and social investments. 2) WACA Regional Scale-Up Platform: - On knowledge, WACA engages international expertise hubs, the African Center of Excellence for Coastal Resilience, the West Africa Coastal Observatory, “Call for Innovations”, and knowledge exchanges between countries and people. - On finance, the WACA Marketplace is in place as a simplified investment mechanism that aims to match the demand for coastal resilience investments with the supply of partner financing. WACA is engaging the private sector to help develop the relationships, tools and mechanisms needed to support their engagement in strengthened coastal resilience for the region. - On Dialogue, the 2018 WACA Country Communique provided the authorizing environment to pursue the three critical streams of work for WACA. First, regional integration by working via regional economic commissions (WAEMU and ECOWAS, the Abidjan Convention and its protocols, and the pursuit of a regional observatory for coastal resilience continuing the work by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique. Second, national scale-up through expanding on the WACA Multi-Sector Investment Plans. Third, mobilizing financial resources from partners in support of new WACA projects or in complement to existing WACA projects for strengthened coastal resilience. In addition, the WACA Local Action and Citizen Engagement (LACE) is about supporting a pro-poor, people-centered approach to promoting sustainable, inclusive and resilient development in the West African coast. Finally, the WACA Forum brings it all together and is at the center of the dialogue and engagement. It ensures inclusiveness and transparency and is convened once a year, hosted by one of the WACA countries. The Forum provides a space for a joint discussion of topics pertaining to knowledge and finance, and takes up special themes (e.g., ports or coastal observation) as they relate to coastal resilience to explore and address bottlenecks or opportunities for that specific theme.
One or two success stories achieved	Total mobilized financing resources: World Bank $190 million, Global Environment Facility $25 million, Nordic Development Fund $18 milion, in additional to several Bank-executes trust funds sposored by Japan, Korea, Norway and France. Protected people and natural assets: 3,600 households with increased resilience to erosion and flooding (Benin), 3 km of dunes strengthened for natural storm protection (Mauritania), and Formal political & technical transboundary cooperation mechanism - (between Benin & Togo) Leveraged commitments, funds, and partnerships: 13 countries adopted WACA Communique, committing to regional integration and cooperation, $6m Education P-for-R: Africa Center of Excellence for Coastal Resilience, Co-financing and parallel investments from development partners (Spain, NDF, FFEM, GEF, GCF, AFD) Mobilized expertise, civil society and knowledge: Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation (report), Coastal radio in Senegal, Knowledge exchange with Netherlands.

Monitoring and Impacts

Function of initiative	Funding, Technical dialogue
Activity of initiative	Financing, Knowledge dissemination and exchange
Indicators
Goals
Comments on indicators and goals
How will goals be achieved
Have you changed or strenghtened your goals
Progress towards the goals
How are you tracking progress of your initiative
Available reporting

Participants

Participants

Number

Names

Members

30

Companies

0

Business organisations

0

Research and educational organisations

2

University of Cape Coast (Ghana), European Space Agency (France)

Non-governmental organisations

0

National states

11

Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania, Nigeria, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, and Togo

Governmental actors

4

Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition (France), Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Spain), French Global Environment Facility (France), French Development Agency (France), GIZ (Germany)

Regional / state / county actors

3

West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Abidjan Convention

City / municipal actors

0

Intergovernmental organisations

6

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Center for Ecological Monitoring (CSE), Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recover (USA), Global Infrastructure Facility (USA), Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services-Waves (USA), Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (Japan) .

Financial Institutions

4

World Bank Group - PROBLUE (USA), Global Environment Facility (USA), Nordic Development Fund (Finland), French Development Agency (France)

Faith based organisations

0

Other members

0

Supporting partners

1

Netherlands Water Partnership

Number of members in the years

Have only national states as participators

No

Theme

Transport	Agriculture	Forestry	Business	Financial institutions	Buildings	Industry	Waste	Cities and subnational governments	Short Term Pollutants	International maritime transport	Energy Supply	Fluorinated gases	Energy efficiency	Renewable energy	Supply chain emission reductions	Adaptation	Other	Resilience	Innovation	Energy Access and Efficiency	Private Finance
No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes

Last update: 7 March 2022 15:14:34

Not only have national states as participators

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+|Name of initiative=West African Coastal Areas Program (WACA)
 |LPAA initiative=Yes
 |NAZCA Initiative=Yes
-|Website address=http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/west-africa-coastal-areas-management-program
+|Website address=http://www.wacaprogram.org
 |Starting year=2015
-|Secretariat=Hosted by the World Bank who have assigned two experts to the project: pkristensen@worldbank.org; and dlotayef@worldbank.org;
+|Secretariat=The World Bank has assigned the following to liaise with partners interested in supporting the WACA Program: Peter Kristensen, Lead Environment Specialist (pkristensen@worldbank.org), Nicolas Desramaut, Senior Environmental Engineer (ndesramaut@worldbank.org), and Sajid Anwar, Environmental Specialist (sanwar@worldbank.org).
-|Organisational structure=WACA is based on collaborative arrangements between countries, donors, the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), and the multi-donor Africa Climate Investment Readiness Partnership Trust Fund. The World Bank Group is in dialogue with other partners and donors to join the effort.
+|Organisational structure=The WACA Program is hosted by the World Bank. The WACA Program consists of country projects, regional integration and support activities, and a WACA Platform as mechanism to scale-up knowledge, dialogue and finance.
 |Geographical coverage=West Africa
 |Name of lead organisation=World Bank
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-|LPAA Theme Financial institutions=No
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 |LPAA Theme Buildings=No
 |LPAA Theme Industry=No
-|LPAA Theme Waste=No
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-|LPAA Theme Cities and subnational governments=No
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 |LPAA Theme Fluorinated gases=No
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-|LPAA Theme Innovation=No
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 |LPAA Theme Energy Access and Efficiency=No
-|LPAA Theme Private Finance=No
+|LPAA Theme Private Finance=Yes
-|Description=WACA will help countries integrate infrastructure and natural resources management in order to enhance their resilience to climate change.
+|Description=WACA supports West Africa countries’ effort to improve the management of their shared coastal resources and reduce the natural and man-made risks affecting coastal communities. WACA boosts the transfer of knowledge, foster political dialogue among countries, and mobilize public and private finance to tackle coastal erosion, flooding, pollution and climate change adaptation.
-The program provides technical assistance to determine the factors that threaten people, ecosystems, and economic assets along the coast. It also offers multi-sectoral solutions such as land management and spatial planning, infrastructure, natural habitat management, and pollution management.
+|Goals=The objective is to strengthen the resilience of targeted communities and areas in coastal Western Africa.
-|Goals=(a) reduce coastal erosion hotspots by 30% by 2020 and by 70% by 2025,  (b) protect 30% of the population in priority flooding areas by 2020 and 70% by 2025,  (c) have a coastal information monitoring system operating in all participating countries by 2020.
-|Activities=Interventions are organized into three pillars:
+In that respect, WACA aims to enhance the absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities of the beneficiary countries and to reduce the shared risks to which they are exposed, either natural or man-made, and that are similar for all or most countries or transboundary in nature.
-. Strategic investment planning, including formulating and prioritizing key policies and sectoral investments to foster adaptation to climate change and build socioeconomic resilience
+|Activities=Interventions include:
-. Knowledge, information, and capacity building, including multihazard vulnerability assessments in select urban areas, cost-benefit analyses of adaption options, and creating stronger information systems in national coastal areas
-. Country and regional engagement and resource mobilization, including analysis of stakeholders’ roles and responsibilities, political economy studies, and identifying  funding and finance opportunities.
+) WACA national Resilience Investment projects: These include each regional integration and support activities (WAEMU, IUCN, Centre de Suivi Ecologique, Abidjan Convention), strengthening of national policy and institutions, and strengthening national physical and social investments.
-The World Bank Group approved in April 2018 a package of $210 million in financing for a regional project to build the resilience of coastal communities in Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal and Togo.
-|Participants national actors number=5
+) WACA Regional Scale-Up Platform:
-|Participants national actors names=Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritania, and Togo
-|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=2
+- On knowledge, WACA engages international expertise hubs, the African Center of Excellence for Coastal Resilience, the West Africa Coastal Observatory, “Call for Innovations”, and knowledge exchanges between countries and people.
-|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=West Africa Economic and Monetary Union WAEMU (Nigeria), the multi-donor Africa Climate Investment Readiness Partnership Trust Fund (Ivory Coast)
-|Participants financial institutions number=1
+- On finance, the WACA Marketplace is in place as a simplified investment mechanism that aims to match the demand for coastal resilience investments with the supply of partner financing. WACA is engaging the private sector to help develop the relationships, tools and mechanisms needed to support their engagement in strengthened coastal resilience for the region.
-|Participants financial institutions names=World Bank Group (USA).
+- On Dialogue, the 2018 WACA Country Communique provided the authorizing environment to pursue the three critical streams of work for WACA. First, regional integration by working via regional economic commissions (WAEMU and ECOWAS, the Abidjan Convention and its protocols, and the pursuit of a regional observatory for coastal resilience continuing the work by the Centre de Suivi Ecologique. Second, national scale-up through expanding on the WACA Multi-Sector Investment Plans. Third, mobilizing financial resources from partners in support of new WACA projects or in complement to existing WACA projects for strengthened coastal resilience. In addition, the WACA Local Action and Citizen Engagement (LACE) is about supporting a pro-poor, people-centered approach to promoting sustainable, inclusive and resilient development in the West African coast. Finally, the WACA Forum brings it all together and is at the center of the dialogue and engagement. It ensures inclusiveness and transparency and is convened once a year, hosted by one of the WACA countries. The Forum provides a space for a joint discussion of topics pertaining to knowledge and finance, and takes up special themes (e.g., ports or coastal observation) as they relate to coastal resilience to explore and address bottlenecks or opportunities for that specific theme.
+|One or two success stories achieved=Total mobilized financing resources: World Bank $190 million, Global Environment Facility $25 million, Nordic Development Fund $18 milion, in additional to several Bank-executes trust funds sposored by Japan, Korea, Norway and France.
+Protected people and natural assets: 3,600 households with increased resilience to erosion and flooding (Benin), 3 km of dunes strengthened for natural storm protection (Mauritania), and Formal political & technical transboundary cooperation mechanism - (between Benin & Togo)
+Leveraged commitments, funds, and partnerships: 13 countries adopted WACA Communique, committing to regional integration and cooperation, $6m Education P-for-R: Africa Center of Excellence for Coastal Resilience, Co-financing and parallel investments from development partners (Spain, NDF, FFEM, GEF, GCF, AFD)
+Mobilized expertise, civil society and knowledge: Cost of Coastal Zone Degradation (report), Coastal radio in Senegal, Knowledge exchange with Netherlands.
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+|Participants research and educational organisations names=University of Cape Coast (Ghana), European Space Agency (France)
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+|Participants governmental actors number=4
+|Participants governmental actors names=Ministry of Ecological and Solidarity Transition (France), Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (Spain), French Global Environment Facility (France), French Development Agency (France), GIZ (Germany)
+|Participants regional actors number=3
+|Participants regional actors names=West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), Abidjan Convention
+|Participants intergovernmental organisations number=6
+|Participants intergovernmental organisations names=International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Center for Ecological Monitoring (CSE), Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recover (USA), Global Infrastructure Facility (USA), Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of Ecosystem Services-Waves (USA), Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (Japan) .
+|Participants financial institutions number=4
+|Participants financial institutions names=World Bank Group - PROBLUE (USA), Global Environment Facility (USA), Nordic Development Fund (Finland), French Development Agency (France)
 |Participants supporting partners number=1
-|Participants supporting partners names=Nordic Development Fund (Finland)
+|Participants supporting partners names=Netherlands Water Partnership
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 |Have only national states as participators=No