A Dakar-based association that mobilized hundreds of villages to replant tens of millions of mangroves in Senegal's deltas.
Senegal
Africa · Western Africa
5 projects · 5 organizations
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Forests
79MtreesMangroves replanted
10.4khectaresMangrove area replanted
Communities
Empowers rural West African communities through education programs that have led thousands of villages to abandon harmful practices.
3,792communitiesSenegalese communities publicly declaring abandonment of FGC
DELVIC Sanitation Initiatives
Fresh WaterSenegal's Private Sludge Operator Runs Dakar's Waste Plants
DELVIC, a Senegalese company, manages faecal sludge treatment plants for the national sanitation office and runs a 24/7 emergency desludging call centre.
9stations (9+)Faecal sludge treatment stations operated
100projects (100+)Completed projects
Association Sénégalaise des Producteurs de Semences Paysannes (ASPSP)
Food & FarmingSenegal's Peasant Seed Keepers Take Back the Fair
Founded in 2003 by farmer Lamine Biaye, ASPSP stages seed fairs where Senegalese growers swap local millet, sorghum and vegetable varieties instead of buying hybrids.
200womenWomen reached in 2020-2022 biodiversity project (Saré Coly Salé and Koussanar)
Bokk Diom Association
Waste & RecyclingDakar's Mbeubeuss Pickers Fight to Stay When the Dump Closes
Bokk Diom's 1,300 pickers, who have worked West Africa's biggest dump for decades, stopped Dakar's garbage trucks in 2023 and are now demanding a just transition as the World Bank-financed closure of Mbeubeuss proceeds.
1,300membersBokk Diom members (as reported by IAWP)
17peopleWorkers arrested in the February 2025 Mbeubeuss eviction, including leaders




