Organisation: The World Bank Group
Closing Date: 27 March 2020
The World Bank Group is launching a Call for Innovation under the West Africa Coastal Areas Management Program (WACA), with the deadline of 27 March 2020. The WACA Program is co-financed by the Nordic Development Fund (NDF).
This Call for Innovation seeks to identify innovative and feasible solutions to fight coastal erosion and flooding issues associated with the ongoing development of large commercial ports and maritime operations in West Africa, mainly for Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, and Togo, but also with an outlook for the rest of the countries in West Africa. In most cases, existing ports were built with limited planning and considerations of potential exacerbation of coastal erosion. The significant threat is that this shortcoming is also occurring for designing and constructing new ports.
The scope is to identify innovations that allow to avoid, mitigate, and remediate the geomorphological and ecological impacts (i.e. coastal erosion and decline in marine ecology) associated with existing and planned commercial ports in West Africa. Proposed solutions will need to be innovative, feasible, and sustainable, and may include:
- Infrastructure to be implemented along the coast to control erosion from existing and planned new ports;
- Infrastructure to be implemented at existing and planned new ports and lagoon systems to control water flows and sediment loads;
- Operation and maintenance practices for existing and planned new ports; and
- Public Private Partnerships (PPP) business models and contracting options for existing and planned new ports.