Project Profile: SUSTAINDAM
Sustainable Management and Planning of Hydropower Generation in West Africa under Climate Change and Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | Arona Diedhiou, National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France |
| Partners: | Dior Diallo-Diarra, National School of Agriculture, Senegal Diarra Dieng, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Boniface Komena, National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France Navneet Kumar, Center for Development Research, Germany Harald Kuntsmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Christof Lorenz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Salomon Obahoundje, Centre of Excellence on Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture, Côte d'Ivoire Phoebe Oduor, The African Group on Earth Observations, Kenya Eric Antwi Ofosu, University of Energy and Natural Resource, Ghana Bernhard Tischbein, Center for Development Research, Germany Sarah Schönbrodt-Stitt, University of Würzburg, Germany Michael Thiel, University of Würzburg, Germany Daniel Yamegueu, Centre of Excellence for Training and Research in Water Science and Technology, Energy and the Environment in West and Central Africa, Burkina Faso |
| Sponsors: | French National Research Agency, France Future Earth, International/Africa German Research Foundation, Germany National Research Alliance for the Environment, France |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Sustainable Management and Planning of Hydropower Generation in West Africa under Climate Change and Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics |
| Full Call Title: | Pathways2020 |
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Why?
| Project Objective: | The SUSTAINDAM project aims to contribute to sustainably manage and plan the hydropower generation in West Africa under climate uncertainties and LULC dynamics. This project aims to build communities of practices with HPG stakeholders (dam managers, local policy makers, representative of civil society, association of women, etc) to address the challenges, synergies and trade-off in the climate land energy water nexus in WA for a sustainable management and planning of HPG. This project will be focused on four (4) dams (pilot sites) in Ghana (Akosombo), Côte d’Ivoire (Buyo), Burkina Faso (Bagré) and Senegal (Manantali), located in different climates. At each pilot site, the specific objectives are: - To assess the past evolution of water-related activities near dams and the sensitivity of each hydropower plant to climate change and variability. - To assess LULCC near dams and propose trends scenarios of LULCC and drivers of water energy food nexus considering potential socio-economic development; - To improve long term planning under uncertain effects of climate and LULC change in integrating vulnerability-based analysis and traditional risk-based assessment approaches using both top-down methods (Random Forest and dynamical downscaling) and bottom-up (Decision Scaling) methods. - To evaluate benefits in decision making for hydropower generation from seasonal forecasts with lead times up to 7 months ahead. |
| Call Objective: | The goal of this CRA is to provide a science base for achieving sustainability goals. The CRA will support 1-2 years of collaborative research networking activities that focus on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop Earth-system-based transformation pathways for sustainable development. |
Where?
| Regions: | Africa, Europe |
| Countries: | Burkina Faso, France, Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), Senegal |
When?
| Duration: | 18 months |
| Call Date: | 2020 |
| Project Award Date: | 2021 |
