Adaptation to Coastal and Climate Change in West Africa (UNDP / GEF)
ACCC is a GEF/UNDP project being implemented by UNESCO/IOC at the request of Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal.  It was initiated by the African Process and taken up in the Action Plan for the Environmental Initiative of NEPAD.  The objectives of the ACCC project are to perform adaptation actions in pilot sites particularly vulnerable to natural climate changes and to anthropogenic degradation in the short, medium and long term (erosion, mangrove destruction,…).  Another major objective of the project is to formulate national and regional strategies of adaptation aiming at managing the impact of changes to the shoreline, in the framework of Integrated Coastal Area Management.  The ACCC project will run for 4 years [2007-2010], in the form of 5 Medium Sized Projects (GEF MSP).

UNESCO Sector:  Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Responsible Staff:  Julian Barbiere
More information: http://english.accc-afr.org