West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project for Climate Change Adaptation (WACA ResIP-CCA)

The WACA ResIP-CCA is a proposed project targeting Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritania, Senegal, and Togo to address vulnerabilities to sea-level rise, flooding, and coastal erosion. With a total indicative cost of USD 382 million, the project aims to protect critical infrastructure and ecosystems in the transport, urban, and natural resources sectors. It combines national-level policy strengthening and capacity building with local-level physical interventions, such as nature-based and hard infrastructure, to benefit approximately 12 million indirect beneficiaries.

• West African coastal areas are critical socio-economic hubs, housing one third of the region's population and generating 42 percent of its GDP.
• The region is identified as a climate change hotspot where sea-level rise (SLR) is expected to exceed the global average due to local factors like land subsidence.
• The project targets three specific vulnerable sectors for physical interventions: transport, urban, and natural resources.
• The total indicative project cost is USD 382 million, with USD 200 million requested as a grant from the Green Climate Fund and USD 182 million in co-financing from the World Bank (IDA).
• The project is estimated to have approximately 12 million indirect beneficiaries based on population data for low-lying coastal areas in the five participating countries.
• The project is structured into four components: regional integration, national policy and institutional frameworks, national physical and social investments, and national coordination.
• Specific adaptation measures by country include protecting the cities of Nouakchott and Nouadhibou in Mauritania, managing the Senegal River Delta in Senegal, and implementing hybrid solutions for erosion west of Hotel Novela Star in Togo.
• The project aims to address a financing gap, as the previous WACA ResIP (USD 221.7 million) only partially met the estimated initial coastal protection needs of USD 528 million for four of the countries.

APA

Green Climate Fund (2018). West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project for Climate Change Adaptation (WACA ResIP-CCA). https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20330-west-africa-coastal-areas-resilience-investment-project-climate-change-adaptation-waca-resip.pdf

Chicago

Green Climate Fund. West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project for Climate Change Adaptation (WACA ResIP-CCA). 2018. https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20330-west-africa-coastal-areas-resilience-investment-project-climate-change-adaptation-waca-resip.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{greenclimatefund2018west, author = {{Green Climate Fund}}, title = {{West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project for Climate Change Adaptation (WACA ResIP-CCA)}}, institution = {Green Climate Fund}, year = {2018}, month = jul, url = {https://www.greenclimate.fund/sites/default/files/document/20330-west-africa-coastal-areas-resilience-investment-project-climate-change-adaptation-waca-resip.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }