Project Title
Large-scale ecosystem-based adaptation in the Gambia: Developing a climate-resilient, natural resource-based economy
Key Figures
- Budget: USD 20.55 million (co-finance: USD 4.97 million)
- Executing entity: Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, and Natural Resources (MECCNAR)
- Area to rehabilitate: 10,000 hectares
- Beneficiaries: 46,200 households
- Fund: Green Climate Fund
- Timeframe: 2015-2023
Description
In 2017, UN Environment and partners launched The Gambia’s largest natural-resource development project to help the country adapt to climate change. The overarching objective is to build climate resilience by restoring and rehabilitating at least 10,000 hectares of forests, protected areas, wildlife areas and farmland, all of which are affected by rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and deforestation.
The six-year project aims to benefit up to 11,550 Gambian households directly and 46,200 households indirectly in four regions along the Gambia River. The project is funded by a grant from the Green Climate Fund, along with contributions from the Gambian government.
Media & Resources
- Case Study: Forestry in the Gambia
- Story: Helping Gambian youth find greener pastures at home
- Story: In The Gambia, building resilience to a changing climate
- Story: In The Gambia, controlling wild fire offers nature-based solution to diminishing wild food and hungry monkeys
- Press release: Ecosystems project to help 50,000 people in The Gambia
- Video: Climate action in The Gambia
- Story: EbA strengthens partnership with lawmakers
- Story: The rural people must be assisted against climate change
- Story: 6-year ecosystem-based adaptation project launched
- Project factsheet
- Project webpage
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