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T1 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
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Economic Community of West African States, 
A2 Baumer, M.
A2 Moustapha Sar, M.
K1 agriculture
K1 agroforestry
K1 biosphere
K1 nature conservation
K1 natural resource
K1 case study
K1 ecology
K1 economic development
K1 ecosystem
K1 environmental degradation
K1 desertification
YR 1995
FD 1995
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29679
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29679
NO This report, prepared in collaboration with ECOWAS, ECA, and UNDP, presents a regional Master Plan to coordinate desertification control and natural resource management across West Africa. Developed by a multidisciplinary team of agroforestry and environmental experts, it assesses the institutional, environmental, and socio-economic dynamics within ECOWAS member states. The report emphasizes the need to harmonize overlapping and often conflicting national and subregional strategies, such as NEAPs, TFAPs, and NPACDs. It proposes a phased implementation approach centered on integrated river basin development, agroforestry promotion, ecosystem monitoring, and community-level interventions in land rehabilitation, water, energy, and livestock management. The document critiques fragmented international aid mechanisms, highlights development disparities between northern and southern ECOWAS countries, and calls for stronger institutional capacities, legal reforms, and coherent policy integration.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 18, 2026