PREDAS is
implemented by the Permanent Interstate Committee for drought
control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Sahelian states, with technical
support of the Marge/ECO consortium.
In the target area, household energy represents more than 80%
of the total energy consumed. It is essentially provided by
woody fuel from forest resources, which are already downgraded
by several decades of climatic hazards and by increasing population
pressure.
PREDAS created a conducive framework for an organized and sustainable
management of domestic energy resources by ensuring the poorest's
supply of wood energy, at minimum cost and in a sustainable
manner.
The Programme's main activities were:
a. help the CILSS member States to conceive, adopt and implement
their “domestic energy strategies” (SED)
b. form a network of Sahelian professionals in household energies
(PESED), and initiate a System of Information Technology on
Energy (SITE)
c. help the CILSS member States conceive and promote the conditions
of monitoring the woody resources available in the wood / energy
supply basins for the major towns in the Sahel. |
|
 |
| Household energy
is provided by wood fuel from forest resources. |
|
Results:
• Establishment of domestic energy strategies (Cape Verde,
Gambia, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Guinea Bissau, Senegal)
• Establishment of an interdisciplinary platform for networking
and information exchange with a focus on sustainable forest
management
|
