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EcoCar Solaire aims to transform Dakar’s fossil-fueled minibuses into solar-powered buses using innovative technology and a participatory approach to reduce air pollution, empower local artisans and ensure urban mobility for the lower-income population. For...
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Due to climate change, the increasingly intense rainfall in many African cities means that informal neighbourhoods, ‘slums’, and their inhabitants are particularly at risk from floods. In Dakar, this affects about 2 million inhabitants. Often, public...
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In an exchange with one of the largest supra-regional West African NGOs based in Dakar – ENDA Tiers Monde – the project for the upgrading and integrating the informal neighbourhood Khadim Rassoul in the city centre of Dakar was initiated. The aim is to use...
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The project is designed to make people more resilient to urban flooding and to ensure effective flood preparation and prevention at the community, local government and national levels, in keeping with the project motto “live with water” (in french “vivre avec l’eau”)....
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The Resilience Lab ‘Taata Ndox’ (Water Tower) goal is to study and improve climate resilient WASH infrastructures and methodologies at the scale of the quarter to secure informal quarters from flooding through sustainable and cost-effective solutions and a...
