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2 The Senegal River Basin and Related Data Sources
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... The arable land area that could effectively be farmed after the ~ The description of the Senegal River basin and the OMVS in this section is based on the OMVS report Pour une gestion durable des ressources naturelles et de l'environnement du bassin du Fleuve Senegal, December 2001, OMERIS Communication, Dakar, Senegal.
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... The workshop participants were able to visit this dam and to see its operations first hand. The Manantali Dam was completed a year later as a reservoir dam with multiple purposes, including retention of about 11.3 billion m3 of water; regularization of river flows to 300 m3/s at Bakel; irrigated culture development in the downstream valley region; continuous river navigability; and energy production at the power station at the bottom of the dam.
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... In May 2000 OMVS established the Observatoire de l'Environnement, or Environmental Observatory. The main objective of the observatory is to monitor environmental change in the SRB as part of PASIE's coordination and monitoring program in order to provide required information for measuring environmental impacts of dams and hydraulic development to the OMVS high commissioner, the three member states, and to various OMVS partners to enable decision makers and populations to implement actions that would ease negative impacts on the environment.3 3 The workshop participants did not receive a briefing on or visit the Environmental Observatory.
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... This information was culled from workshop presentations and various Web sites, including those of the Senegalese and Mauritanian governments, as well as the "Senegal River Basin Water and Environmental Management Project Project Brief" (2001, World Bank and UNDP) , which can be found at http://www.gefweb.org/Documents/Council_Documents/ GEF_C 1 8/Regional_S enegal_River_B asin.
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... These include monitoring plant production using the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) derived from NOAA/AVHRR data, estimating rainfall using a Meteosat-based model, evaluating agricultural production using diverse satellite imagery, and monitoring bushfires using NOAA imagery.
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... have primary responsibility for the management of the Senegal River basin through their Direction Nationale de l'Amenagement et de l'Equipement Rural (National Office of Rural Exploitation and Equipment) and the Direction Nationale de l'Hydraulique et de l'Energie (National Office of Hydrology and Energy)
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... Two of their current projects focus on West Africa. One monitors land use and land cover changes in the Sahel and the other is a prototype pilot project in Senegal looking at carbon sequestration in soil organic matter in Africa.
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... Regional Data Sources The Comite Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Secheresse au Sahel (CILSS) , or the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel, is an organization of nine West African countries: Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Chad.
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... The project brief and its cover memo from Lars Vidaeus, GEF Executive Coordinator, to Ken King, Assistant CEO, GEF Secretariat, on the project and its submission for work program inclusion, dated September 21, 2001, can be found at http://www.gefweb.org/Documents/Council_Documents/GEF_C18/Regional_Senegal_River_Basin.pdf. The workshop participants did not receive a briefing on this project.
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