Structure and agency: understanding water policy changes in West Africa

Perspective | Regional Security Policy in West Africa

An Overview of Water Resources Planning in West Africa

Multilateral and bilateral donors have assisted regional water resources planning organizations in West Africa during the period since independence with limited success. Development of sound plans has been hampered primarily by lack of budgetary support, ineffective management, poorly defined objectives and inadequate coordination among donors. national governments and the planning organization...

Instability of water resources and management of a planned water system in non-sahelian West Africa

Having verified the decrease in surface water resources observed over the last twenty years in West Africa, changes planned for the Sassandra basin, Côte d'Ivoire, are described. The methods used to generate two hundred year data series, the basis of previous studies, are presented. The generated time series allow the development of long term working patterns for cases similar to the climatic c...

Understanding the water crisis in Africa and the Middle East: How can science inform policy and practice?

When it comes to conflicts over the allocation of freshwater supply, who bears the burden, at what cost, and at what scale are important questions. While science can contribute to resolution of certain water allocation disputes, more scientific certainty will not resolve most water allocation controversies. Water stress in Africa and in theMiddle EastÑparticularly in theNile BasinÑis likely to ...

An Analytical Approach to Female Genital Mutilation in West Africa

Female genital mutilation in different parts of the African continent isconsidered as one of the vast territory’s social problems. This social problem whichis accounted as an old tradition in different countries of the African continent hashad so many unpleasant physical and mental effects on urban and rural Africanwomen during recent centuries. Throughout recent decades, considerable effortsha...