Senegal - Project to Support Local Small-Scale Irrigation (PAPIL)

The proposed operation consists of additional financing of UA 8.4 million to the Government of the Republic of Senegal to enable the Small Local Irrigation Support Project (PAPIL) to reach and to exceed its initial objectives. PAPIL aims primarily at participatory planning to develop land from small runoff management works to ensure food security. After more than four years of implementation, PAPIL has achieved much appreciated results in the mobilization of water resources and regeneration of the natural environment, and has raised many hopes among the populations confronted with the acuity of the problems related to climate change. Unfortunately, the financial resources of the project, in particular because of the increase in raw material prices, the average fall of the CU, and technical options, which were revised upwards during the participatory process, proved to be insufficient to allow intervention on all planned sites. The additional loan will allow the project to cope with the financing gap, and thus be able to realize all the infrastructures and facilities already identified and studied. It will amplify the actions of salt control, will continue the actions undertaken in terms of reforestation and protection of CES / DRS, will lead with the populations of new activities relating to the regeneration of mangroves and the protection of the island environments, intensify the dissemination of cultural techniques adapted to new climate and soil constraints, develop the reflection on the occurrence of exceptional rainfall phenomena and its consideration in the design of water retention structures, etc. This operation will cover a period of 3 years (2011-2013) and will affect the same initial geographical area (4 regions): Fatick, Kolda, Tambacounda and Kédougou.