KASOFOR, from the foundation Energies for the World (FONDEM)
A global approach to meet the ecological challenges of an island territory
Vincent Jacques le Seigneur
Jérémy Ankri
Florent Corcelle
Benjamin Rayer
Tiffanie Petit Goffi
Madeleine Fauchier
KASOFOR is a founding project that implements and coordinates an innovative and comprehensive territorial strategy to enable the inhabitants of the Kafountine Islands in Senegal to cope with large-scale climate change.
Making the Kafutin Islands a UN-validated model of resilience
The island area of Kafountine in Senegal is suffering the full impact of climate change, weakening the livelihoods of local communities: reduced agricultural production, salinization of water, loss of biodiversity … with the consequences of food insecurity, youth out-migration, scarcity and overexploitation of fisheries resources and mangroves. Faced with the magnitude of the crisis, the local authorities turned to the Fondation Energies pour le monde (FONDEM), a specialist in rural development and universal access to electricity for over 30 years: the KASOFOR project was born.
KASOFOR is an innovative international solidarity project in that it focuses on working in a comprehensive way to make people resilient to the situation. It covers themes that are usually treated separately, but which are all crucial for resilience: the protection of biodiversity, access to renewable energy and low-carbon mobility, the development of local governance and sustainable and inclusive economic activities. The impacts of the project will be measured using the SHARP tool of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), which allows local populations to self-diagnose their resilience independently. Capitalizing on the lessons learned from the project will allow its replication in other island territories.
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