Overview of the project

CALL Senegal (Climate Action Légui cii Senegal) is an initiative of the Heinrich Böll Foundation Senegal that aims to raise awareness on climate change and promote climate action in Senegal.

In the fight for the promotion of ecology and better environmental justice in Senegal, the climate issue is still less highlighted than other issues such as plastic pollution or coastal erosion. It is therefore with the aim of drawing the attention of the Senegalese population, but also of development actors, to the necessity and urgency of taking action in favour of the climate that the communication and public awareness campaign was developed.

The Green Team (JVE SENEGAL, TERANGA LAB…..), after several years of capacity building activities for community radios and youth organisations, decided this year to engage in mass awareness raising and capacity building of organisations and actors on the existing political process and governance framework in the field of the environment in Senegal.

This year, the programme is active in several regions: Saint Louis, Dakar, Thiès (Somone), Kolda, Sedhiou and Ziguinchor.
The activities :

• Training of CBOs and journalists;
• Awareness raising through the organisation of CLIMATE NIGHTS, NDEKKI CLIMATE;
• Citizen mobilisation;
• Communication through PODCASTS, radio programmes and documentaries on the environment;
• FORM’ACTION: field action: development, reforestation…