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Adapting to a Changing Environment

West African Bird Study Association

Serekunda, 冈比亚

An Overview Of Our Solution

Who is this solution impacting?
生态系统
Deserts
Deserts
Forests
Forests
Oceans
Oceans/Coasts
社区类型
Rural
Rural
Additional Information
  • Population Impacted:
  • Continent: Africa
General Info

地址

Abuko Nature Reserve PMB 676
Serekunda
冈比亚

电子邮件

kunowabsa@yahoo.com
Problem

受影响的人口

300000

尺寸

257Km

主要职业

Fishing and farming

社区所依赖的本地资源,以及用于什么目的

Fishing and Agricultural Produces like groundnut, rice and millet are the main local resource the community depends on, the purpose is for feeding and commercial to earner income to support their family education, medication etc.

对资源的本地威胁

Over farming and cattle grazing, invasion of Locust and erosion. Using of bad net fishing, cutting of mangrove.

气候危害

Desertification

敏感度等级

Whenever there is a desert there will be less rain fall an it will be affect the community produce

适应能力水平

Reforestation such as mangrove regeneration and tree planting in the forest and national park
Solution

? Diversified or alternative livelihoods To support local communities livelihoods projects such as Bee keeping, fishing board, woodlots and gardens so as to abandon the ecosystem . ? Improved food security : By conduct mangrove planting to improve the fish breeding area and establish aquaculture, were the soft projects to support the ecosystem

Results

生态成本

-Protect of natural resource

生态效益

-Abundance of resource

用于衡量效益的经济指标

-Sustainable mangrove ecosystem

社区/社会成本

- Conflict between those with fishing rights and those who don?t have them

社区/社会福利

-Increase awareness and support for sustainable fisheries management

用于衡量福利的社区/社会指标

- Sources of income

经济成本

- Job training - Cost of community meetings (with amount)

经济效益

- Additional income

用于衡量效益的生态指标

- Community reports

您的社区在实施此解决方案时面临哪些挑战?

The challenges are lack of technical know how lack of resources How to overcome WABSA will raise funds to build the capacity of the local community and give them such project to boast their income. If solutions were in place there will be no risks because their capacity will be raise .

Action

描述用于开发解决方案的基于社区的流程,包括使用的工具和流程

WABSA and Wildlife Department conduct mangrove assessment in the north bank region with the local community. The local communities own their resource so any activity or decision making they most be involve. The partners were community development, Wildlife and forestry Department. The roles of the community development is to mobilize communities, wildlife and forestry are to sensitizes the local communities. Length of implementation. Depend on the project term. West African Bird Study Association is responsible for the managements and coordination of the project

关注的气候危害

Drought

您的解决方案如何减少暴露和缓冲/保护受影响的生态系统?

The ecosystem need to be protect from exploitation which is main cause by natural or anthropogenic the best way is to plant more mangroves stump and indigenous seedling to protect the ecosystem

How has your solution increased the capacity of the ecosystem to adapt to potential climate changes?

To plant mangroves in the degraded area will help to adapt potential climate change .and also to plant more tree seedling in identified potential side.

您的解决方案如何减少受影响社区的暴露并缓冲/保护受影响的社区?

Local community involvement in the protection of the ecosystem through sensitization and by laws place

您的解决方案如何降低受影响社区的敏感性?

Reforestations of degraded areas affected

您的解决方案如何提高当地社区适应潜在气候变化的能力?

Involve the local communities in workshop and sensitization in related to climate issues

Scale

这个解决方案可以在其他地方复制吗?

Yes it can be replicated . factor to make it successful are to conduct side identification to know the areas to be replicated and sensitization to the local communities about the project coming.It has not yet been replicate to new side. Obviously it can be new solution to the local communities because some of them have never experience this convenience

Overview
Solution
Scale
Rare
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