Browsing Knowledge Repository by Country/Region "Gambia"
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Appendices. Decent Work in Nature-based Solutions - A Biennial Global Report on Work and Employment in the Emerging Nature Conservation and Restoration Economy
(2022-12)NbS are increasingly seen as a way to meet the objectives of several global agreements and can be central to a just transition – if the right mix of just transition policies are implemented. But there is currently no ... -
Atlas of Africa Energy Resources
(2017)This Atlas compiles and synthesizes regional and national information. It presents the scale and distribution of energy resources, production and consumption trends, as well as the existing potential for environmentally ... -
Coastal Erosion in West and Central Africa - UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 67
(1985)This report was conceived with a naturalistic approach, i.e. global and inter-regional, incorporating different parameters which shape the coastal zone. It is subdivided into 3 main parts. The first one takes into account ... -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries : Volume V - Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
(1998)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. The 1996 Edition of the Compendium is produced in about four volumes. The first volume contains the framework environmental ... -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume I - Framework Laws and EIA Regulations
(1996)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. Volume I contains texts of framework laws as well as EIA Regulations, which had been received by that time. -
Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries Volume II: Sectoral Environmental Laws and Regulations
(1996)The Compendium of Environmental Laws of African Countries was published for the first time in 1996. The 1996 Edition of the Compendium is produced in about four volumes. The first volume contains the framework environmental ... -
Country Case Study on Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases in the Gambia - Final Report
(1994)In accordance with Article 4 of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all Parties are required to develop, periodically update, publish and make avail-able to the Conference of the Parties, ... -
A Decade of Ecosystem-based Adaptation: Lessons from the United Nations Environment Programme - Policy Brief
(2024-03)Over the past decade, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has embraced Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) in supporting climate change response projects across the world. The adoption by UNEP of the EbA approach ... -
Diagnostic and a Baseline Study for Implementing Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Rural Landscapes of The Gambia
(World Agroforestry, 2020-01)A baseline study conducted for the project, “Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in The Gambia River Basin: Developing a climate resilient, natural resource-based economy”, covered an inventory of 110 Community ... -
Energy Profile: Gambia
(2017)In 2013, Gambia’s population was 1.86 million. Total production of electricity in 2015 was 28 ktoe with 96.4 per cent produced from fossil fuels. In 2015, final consumption of electricity was 21 ktoe (AFREC, 2015). -
Forestry in The Gambia: A Climate Adaptation Case Study
(2022-01)The UN Environment Programme is helping the government of Gambia to adapt to climate change with a major project, titled Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in The Gambia: developing a climate-resilient, natural ... -
Gambia: Early Warning Climate Forecasting
(2019)UN Environment is helping the government of Gambia to build adaptation through the project "Strengthening of the Gambia's Climate Change Early Warning System: Phase I & Phase II". The project's 1st phase built climate ... -
Gambia: Ecosystem-based Adaptation
(2019)UN Environment and the government of Gambia have launched the country’s largest adaptation project "Large-scale Ecosystem-based Adaptation in the Gambia: Developing a Climate-resilient, Natural Resource-based Economy", ... -
Infoterra: 15 Years of Making a Difference - Exchange of Environmental Experience Series No. 4
(1992)The series, entitled Exchange of Environmental Experience, grew out of a recognition that a great deal of valuable experience on the environment was being shared through the INFOTERRA network, and perhaps much of this ... -
Internship Project On the Land Use Policies and Land Tenure In the Arid and Semi-arid Countries of Post-Independence Africa
(1993)This project on land use policy and land tenure in the and and semi-arid countries of post-independence Africa has spanned the course of just under six weeks.We have compiled information on the following countries: Algeria, ... -
Large-Scale Ecosystem Based Adaptation in the Gambia River Basin: Developing a Climate Resilient, Natural Resource Economy
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Livelihood security: Climate Change, Conflict and Migration in the Sahel - Executive summary
(2011-12)The Sahelian countries (CILSS) are among the poorest countries in the world with the most degraded environments. They are also among the countries that are the most vulnerable to the estimated effects of climate change. ... -
Mangroves of Western and Central Africa
This report presents new spatial data for mangrove area coverage in West Africa, and brings together for the first time information on the uses of mangroves, current drivers of change and threats to mangroves at the national ... -
Master Plan for Coordination of Programmes for Combating Desertification / Natural Resources Management in the ECOWAS Sub-region: Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire
(1995)The Project RAF/88/047/B/01/5, funded by UNDP, is a multi-disciplinary programme for strengthening of economic cooperation and integration among West African States within the Economic Community of West African States ... -
Methodology for Assessment and Control of Coastal Erosion in West and Central Africa: UNEP Regional Seas Reports and Studies No. 107
The objectives of the manual are: i) to present scientific information necessary to understand the formation and dynamic behaviour of coastal sedimentary features; and ii) to allow the national experts in each country of ...