The Women Shellfishers and Food Security Project aims to strengthen the evidence for, increase awareness of, and equip stakeholders to adapt and apply successful approaches to rights-based, ecosystem-based, participatory co-management of shellfisheries by women in mangrove ecosystems in West Africa. The broad goal of the project is to “Foster the adoption and scaling-up of an integrated approach to conservation and restoration of mangrove and estuarine ecosystems in West Africa that provides cross-sectoral benefits in terms of gender equality and women’s empowerment, economic development, and household food resiliency” (USAID 2022). The project is funded by USAID, and implemented by the University of Cape Coast (Ghana), Development Action Association (DAA), TRY Oyster Women’s Association (TRY), World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and University of Rhode Island (URI). To achieve the goal of the project, ICRAF conducted mangrove restoration and conservation site mapping in Narkwa and Densu in Ghana, and Bulock and Lamin in The Gambia. This was part of Output 1.3 of the project to Develop mangrove co-management, and specifically Output 1.3.1 on Mangrove restoration sites mapping covering the four project sites. This report provides details on Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping work, which involved participatory GIS mapping with communities across the four sites, and featured ‘ground truthing’ and related accuracy assessments. This work was conducted beginning in January 2023 in the four sites, and builds on the findings of field work at these sites conducted during Phase I of the project in 2021 and 2022. 

Author(s)

Carsan, S., Harou, I., Muthee, K., Bah, A., McMullin, S., Darko Obiri, B., Minang, P.

Publisher / Institution

World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya and Coastal Resources Center, Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI, USA.

Date published

Jun 01, 2023