PGIES "saves" the 100,000 inhabitants

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ECOSYSTEMS, POVERTY REDUCTION AND STABILIZATION OF CLIMATE
PGIES "saves" the 100,000 inhabitants of the area NKNP
In recent years, actions by projects such as the integrated management of ecosystems in four representative landscapes of Senegal (PGIES) for populations surrounding the National Park Niokolokoba allowed 100,000 people nearby to head out of the water.

Government of Senegal project implemented with the support of UNDP and GEF, for a period of ten years divided into three phases 3, 4 and 3 years, the project focuses on promoting integrated ecosystem management, sustainable land management, participatory conservation of globally significant biodiversity, carbon sequestration and promotion of sustainable livelihoods. Intervention sites of the project include the National Park Niokolokoba, the National Park of the Saloum Delta, the Niayes, Wildlife Reserves Ferlo, with the adjacent village lands. In the area of ​​Niokolokoba, PGIES plays a very important role in climate change. It has established Community Natural Reserves (RNC) is an initiative of the villagers of the same soil, with the objective of managing natural resources as a community and integrated. They play a role in stabilizing the global climate: in addition to carbon sequestration, they convert solar energy into steam, refreshing and encouraging atmosphere and precipitation. Ultimately, they make life and offer immediate and lasting benefits for residents of forests.
3 million tons of CO2 sequestered
The firm Kinomé, PGIES partner, conducted a study to quantify the emission reductions that have been permitted by the implementation of the RNC around the park Niokolo Koba. With a very conservative approach, the 325,583 hectares of RNC 8 have reduced over 1.77 million tonnes of CO2 in 5 years. Damien Kuhn, coordinator of the study, said "after 10 years, it will be more than 3 million tons of CO2 that have not joined the atmosphere through community forest management. Like other countries in West Africa where forest conservation and output of rural poverty are closely linked, Senegal has huge potential to contribute to the efforts of reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. It must promote! ". Another area of ​​activities PGIES, the fight against poverty, especially women in rural areas. The creation of savings and credit. A Mutual Savings and Loans have been approved by the Ministry of Economy and Finance. A start-up grant in the amount of 358,446,178 FCFA has funded 126 projects in 108 villages micro direct benefit of individual beneficiaries 6905 with 106 micro-projects group and 20 integrated projects and individual projects with 1483 to 54.05% profit women, alternative options for income generation related to the sustainable use of natural resources. This grant has generated a revolving capital 176 225 449 F CFA a year. With revolving, the number of direct beneficiaries password 6905 à 9328 an increase of 30% in one year. To date 1 027 micro second generation are refinanced in the form of revolving credit in favor of 11,066 beneficiaries in 254 village communities for widespread development of the latter.
The UNDP premium Senegal, thanks to PGIES

Senegal through PGIES was awarded by the UNDP in 2010, informs Mrs Marame Lèye Lô, in charge of gender and HIV / AIDS in UNDP. In Africa there were only three countries Senegal, Cameroon and Benin. And actions by Simone Ndaw () in the Gandiol were decisive in the choice of PGIES by the UNDP. "We are pleading for women to occupy a prominent place in the government. We support women through programs and projects. As such we have a multifunctional platform, a project that provides energy to women and allows them to reduce their working time. This frees girls to go to school. Our areas of intervention Kaolack, Tambacounda, Thies, the Niayes Kaffrine "said Ms Lo. These projects have won many success stories for PGIES. In St. Louis, the program to support the implementation of the strategy of poverty reduction. This project has been a successful experience of UNDP on gender equality and empowerment of women. The example Ndèye Guissé Diop, Director of Complex Magui Couture is illustrative. Born in 1978 in Saint Louis, golden scissors in 2003, faced with a lack of resources and management experience, she asks the program to reduce poverty (Prp) after receiving funding support from Bit in development of its business plan and training in business management. Prp funding in the amount of 3,875,000 francs allowed him to acquire additional equipment to upgrade his studio became "Complex Magui Couture" with the diversification of its activities to youth training and design. The complex formed with thirty students a winner with golden scissors in 2009. Ms. Diop Ndèye Guissé permanently employs 06 people, including three men. These performances led UNIDO to make Magui Couture a "business reference" to accommodate immersion entrepreneurial young graduates of vocational training centers. A Fimela, the project "Capacity Building Osc participation in democratic processes" from June 2007 to December 2008 whose main beneficiaries are women of 17 villages of the rural community populated Fimela 18 417 inhabitants of which 52% women . Today, this project has enabled women to storm the offices of the associations of parents and seek to make investments on the lists of parties / coalitions for the election of Council areas. A Niodior with the project management of biodiversity in the soil of Niodior Biosphere Reserve in the Saloum Delta from 2005 to 2007. This project has enabled the level of biodiversity in degraded mangrove five sites, with an area of ​​six hectares of regeneration. In socio-economic terms, the single bench of crustaceans and molluscs, 400 women earn more than 5500 dollars each year, women have particularly benefited from sustainable income generating activities.