West Africa

Senegal
Salimata Wade (Regional Coordinator)
Environmental Action in the Third World (ENDA)
Expertise keywords: Energy, Climate, Local Governance, Urban issues and Gender
Email: Energy2@enda.sn  , saly_wade@yahoo.fr 
Education: PhD in Geography from Montpellier, France and an Environmental Law degree, from DESS also in Montpellier.
Professional Experience: Previously a lecturer in the Department of Geography at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal, she is currently a member of Environmental Development Action in the Third World (ENDA). Part of the ENDA Energy Team, she is working on energy, Local Governance, urban issues gender and climate change – focussing on vulnerability and adaptation issues and is interested in urban areas. Also the coordinator of the research programme, she is in charge of the CLACC regional programme management as a regional fellow. She is in charge of the three West African fellows from Benin, Mali and Mauritania. She is very interested in developing the francophone influence of the CLACC network and hopes to use the CLACC study opportunities to learn more about peri-urban and urban areas in the sub-region where urbanization is highly pertinent and challenging. Within ENDA, she has started a movement to mobilize West African civil society through information and training but also practical action, linking communities, NGO, local authorities efforts and their institutional partners support.

Mali
Oumar SANGO
AMADE - PELCODE
Expertise: Indigenous technologies and biodiversity
Email: sangooumar@yahoo.fr

Education: Masters degree in Socio-anthropology
Professional Experience: Mr. Sango is the Project Coordinator for AMADE- PELCODE, Mali. This is a national NGO active in the domain of environment protection and children care. The NGO has established dynamic partnerships with actors from the private, public and civil society sectors towards working with rural and urban communities in developing local technologies with regard to biodiversity and climate change issues.

Benin
Krystel Dossou
Organisation des Femmes pour la gestion de l’Energie, de l’Environnement et la promotion du Développement Intégré (OFEDI)
Expertise: Non Timber forestry, socio economics, natural resources, energy, and climate
Email: krystod7@yahoo.fr

Education: Engineer agronomist (MSc) in economics and socio-anthropology for rural development from the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of Abomey-Calavi’s University. Mr. Dossou also obtained a General Agronomy Degree (DAG) from the National University of Benin

Professional experience: Mr. Dossou was successively teacher of rural projects management, scientific assistant in PFNL-Labo , consultant for international projects and researcher in the National Institute of Agricultural Research, as well as other organisations. He is currently program manager of OFEDI, a woman’s environmental NGO that works on energy management and rural development. He manages the energy and environment board. He has an extensive experience in rural extension and practical project monitoring. He has carried out studies on contribution of natural resources and forest products (excluding wood) in rural households economy and food (community forestry, agro-forestry), energy management (energizing efficiency, fuel wood, technology transfer) and climate change adaptation (NAPA studies). Mr. Dossou has also published various scientific articles.


Mauritania
Madyoury Tandia
Tenmiya
Expertise: Hydrogeology, water and sanitation
Email: madyourytandia@yahoo.fr  

Education: Postgraduate Diploma in water and sanitation from Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal
Professional Experience: Madyoury Tandia is a hydrogeologyst and coordinator of Project & studies for Tenmiya. He has extensive experience on hydraulic engineering, decentralized rural electrification, management of water & sanitation and climate change.

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