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Leverage the prickly pear to adapt to climate change

Aridity is a major challenge for farmers in Morocco. Confronted with this issue, the prickly pear offers great potential as it only needs a little water. Atlas Inclusive Partners has benefited from FF...

Desalinate seawater using solar energy

Water supply is a major issue for small island communities. To address this, the solar-powered seawater desalination technology developed by the company Mascara enables the production of drinking wate...

Promote the development of a local photovoltaic industry for the industrial sector.

Fuel oil and gas are the traditional fuels powering industry: that is the case for the cement plant owned by Sococim Industries, the Senegalese subsidiary of the French group Vicat. To address its gro...

A network of community solar lighting systems to facilitate access to electricity in Casamance

Despite Senegal’s significant solar potential, only 56.5% of the population had access to electricity in 2016. With financial support from the FFEM, the company Sunna Design installed community solar...

Ensure access to renewable electricity and essential services through a floating tidal stream turbine

600 million people in Africa have no access to electricity. To combat this energy insecurity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the FFEM is supporting a pilot project to install a tidal stream t...

Setting up workshops for locally manufacturing green products in Africa

The French company Lagazel manufactures quality solar products in Africa, particularly lamps, enabling large-scale development and distribution of “green” equipment. The project is supported by the FF...

Conservation and innovative financing of high forest cover

The Amazon forest contains “vital reserves”, areas rich in both irrecoverable carbon and biodiversity. The FFEM’s support to four Amazon countries aims to encourage the emergence of innovative and sus...

FISP Climat : Production of renewable energy and organic fertiliser from purification

The project aims to demonstrate the feasibility of an industrial production of biogas, by fermentation of latrine sludge. 

Restoring forests and landscapes and sustainably managing land in the Sahel

The populations of Burkina Faso and Niger rely on land subjected to intense biophysical and human pressure due to ecological, economic and social reasons. By supporting a project combating the degrada...

Supporting community conservation to reconcile local development and biodiversity conservation in northern Ken...

Hailed as one of the most mega-biodiverse nations in East Africa, Kenya is home to over 6,500 plant species along with over 1,000 birds and about 350 mammals. Despite its rich biodiversity, many of Ke...

Promote a new pedagogy to raise awareness about climate change in classrooms

Raising awareness among new generations about climate change starts at school. With the support of the FFEM, the Office for Climate Education (OCE) is pushing for primary and secondary education to ad...

Carbon credits to finance sustainable housing

Through the ACACIAS project, the FFEM is supporting the implementation of a carbon credit mechanism for developing sustainable construction in Benin and Ghana.

Small-Scale Initiatives Program (PPI 4)

Following on from the previous phases, the fourth phase of the Small-Scale Initiatives Program (PPI) aims to strengthen African civil society on environmental issues in countries where it is historica...

Third Small Grants Programme

Building on four previous phases of the program, PPI3 supports African Civil Society Organizations by both funding small-scale, concrete field projects focused on biodiversity conservation and climate...

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Roll-out of a refrigeration solution

In the absence of reliable electricity networks, refrigeration remains a major issue for the health and nutrition of millions of people in Nigeria. Supported by the FFEM, the project led by Koolboks r...