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01/05/2026

Marche des travailleurs du secteur de la pêche de Saint-Louis.
⚖️ Respect des droits des pêcheurs artisanaux
🌍 Transition énergétique juste.

01/05/2026

⚖️🌍 1er mai 2026 - Fete du Travail: pour une pêche respectée et une transition énergétique juste.

À Saint-Louis, les communautés de la Langue de Barbarie se sont fortement mobilisées pour porter leur voix, lors d’une grande marche qui s’est achevée par la remise de leur cahier de doléances au Gouverneur.
Leurs priorités :
➡️ Le respect des engagements de BP exploitant du projet GTA
➡️ Une transition énergétique juste

Soutenu par SynDev, ce mouvement rappelle une chose essentielle : aucune transition ne peut être juste sans les communautés en première ligne.

30/04/2026

🗓️ RDV ce 1er Mai à Saint-Louis !
Rejoignez-nous dès 09h00 au Quai de pêche de Guet Ndar pour la Grande Marche de la Fête du Travail.
SynDev en solidarité avec l' et les actrices de la filière pêche de Saint-Louis. 🌊

29/04/2026

📌The First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels opens tomorrow. GAGGA’s and WoMin African Alliance’s policy brief, ‘From Fossil Fuels to Gender-Just Futures: Land, Care and Livelihoods as Foundations of a Just Transition,’ lays out what a feminist, locally-led and commons-based just transition looks like in practice.
It is grounded in a decade of frontline climate work experience, with 2,590+ women-led organisations across 60+ countries. It is written by and with the communities bearing the costs of extraction — and leading the alternatives.
The brief makes five core demands of policy-makers, decision-makers and funding partners:
Scale and transform climate finance: reframe it as reparation, not charity.
Ensure direct access for women-led community-based organisations: grants, not loans; flexibility, not bureaucracy.
Ensure women's decision-making power: not participation, but leadership in governance structures.
Put feminist post-extractive pathways at the centre: commons governance, agroecology, community-owned energy.
End false solutions: no fossil gas, no offsetting that displaces communities, no green extractivism without safeguards.
Share it. Tag the funders, policymakers and allies in your network who need to read it. The window for a genuinely just transition is open, but not indefinitely. Let’s make the most of it.
Read GAGGA and WoMin African Alliance's full policy brief: https://gaggaalliance.org/resource/policy-brief-from-fossil-fuels-to-gender-just-futures-land-care-and-livelihoods-as-foundations-of-a-just-transition/

29/04/2026

Ministère de l'Energie, du Pétrole et des Mines: au terme des quatre premiers mois de l’exercice budgétaire 2026.
Le Ministère dispose d’un budget de 267,1 milliards de FCFA en autorisations d’engagement et de 130,1 milliards de FCFA en crédits de paiement. La grande majorité de ces ressources, soit plus de 91 %, est allouée au programme « Accès universel à une énergie compétitive et durable », illustrant le rôle central du secteur énergétique dans les priorités de l’État.

24/04/2026

As delegates prepare to land in Santa Marta, for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, here's what needs to be said plainly: the green energy transition, as currently designed, is reproducing the extractive logic it was meant to replace.
Lithium. Cobalt. Copper. Rare earths. The materials powering wind turbines and electric vehicles have to come from somewhere — and right now, they are coming from Indigenous and communal lands in the Global South, with little or no consultation, inadequate compensation, and no binding safeguards.
In South Africa's Namaqualand, 700,000 hectares of Indigenous communal land is being eyed for a green hydrogen megaproject, designed primarily to export energy to Northwest Europe, not to address South Africa's own energy crisis.
In Uganda, a rare earths mining licence covering 300 square kilometres was granted in a region where communities depend on the land for food, water and livelihoods, with women systematically excluded from consultation processes.
This is what our policy brief calls "green extractivism." It is not a just transition. It is extraction with a different label.
Delegations in Santa Marta must grapple with this contradiction and not simply celebrate the phase-out of fossil fuels, but demand that what replaces them is built on justice, not dispossession.
Read GAGGA and WoMin African Alliance's full policy brief: https://gaggaalliance.org/resource/policy-brief-from-fossil-fuels-to-gender-just-futures-land-care-and-livelihoods-as-foundations-of-a-just-transition/


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24/04/2026

📌This week, governments, civil society and multilateral organisations converge in Santa Marta, Colombia for the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels, focusing on moving beyond fossil fuels following COP30 momentum, including efforts to operationalise the Belém Action Mechanism, to coordinate and finance a just and equitable transition for workers and communities.
The global consensus is clear: fossil fuels must be phased out. Science demands it. Civil society — and in particular feminist civil society and grassroots women-led organisations — has been calling for it for years.
But agreements are not transformation. And the terms of this transition, who shapes it, who benefits, and who bears its costs, are still very much up for grabs.
GAGGA is heading into the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels with a clear message, drawn from over a decade of frontline climate work with 2,590+ women-led organisations across 60+ countries: a just transition must be feminist, locally-led and grounded in the commons. Anything less risks reproducing the same extractive dynamics that caused the crisis.
Watch this space all week. We'll be sharing what's at stake, and what needs to happen.
Read our full policy brief:https://gaggaalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/RGB-Policy-Brief-From-Fossil-Fuels-to-Gender-Just-Futures-Land-Care-and-Livelihoods-as-Foundations-of-a-Just-Transition-RGB.pdf


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22/04/2026

Nouvelle publication | Pourquoi les femmes transformatrices de Khelcom/Bargny attendent-elles toujours réparation après 10 ans de lutte ?

Découvrez l’analyse de notre Directrice du Plaidoyer, Fatoumata Kiné Niang Mbodji, publiée par le Accountability Research Center. Elle y décrypte le fossé entre les audits des banques de développement et la réalité du terrain à Sendou.

Un grand merci au Centre pour cette collaboration stratégique.
📖 À lire en français ici : https://bit.ly/4sSC69X

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐭𝐨-𝐑𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐲 𝐆𝐚𝐩: 𝐀 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐨𝐰

Senegal’s Sendou coal-fired power plant casts a long shadow. Built on land earmarked to resettle households displaced by coastal erosion, and funded by the African Development Bank and Dutch bank FMO, it has since its construction been a source of massive pollution.

For neighbouring fish processors in Khelcom, the consequences were immediate: ash and fine particles spoil the fish drying on racks. Constant exposure to toxic fumes has exposed women to chronic respiratory and skin diseases, while destabilizing the coastal marine ecosystem on which the very availability of the fish they process depends.

Official complaints were made to AfDB and FMO in 2016. They officially acknowledged major non-compliance issues. Since 2019, the AfDB published an audit report, a corrective action plan, and progress reports. The women fish processors of Khelcom have participated in every inspection mission to bear witness to their reality.

But they have not received remedy.

And in 2025, FMO sold its loans to Kebe Capital, a private company which is not subject to any public accountability policies or independent recourse mechanisms.

Today’s new Accountability Keywords blog from Fatoumata kiné Niang Mbodji of SynDev, who has accompanied the Khelcom women, analyzes the Accountability-to-Remedy gap. She argues for two inseperable pillars of reform that are needed: Free, Prior, and Informed Consent to become a binding eligibility requirement, and that no state or private-sector enterprise should be able to apply for new MDB loans until serious disputes are resolved.

In English: https://bit.ly/42nbKCg
En français: https://bit.ly/4sSC69X

21/04/2026

📌Dakar 21 avril 2026: Ouverture de l'atelier sur le processus des Études d'Impacts Environnementales et Sociales (EIES).
Les EIES constituent un outil essentiel d'aide à la décision qui nécessite une implication active des communautés concernées. Au programme de la journée :Présentation du processus administratif de l'évaluation environnementale par la Direction Régional de l'Environnement et des établissements classés. Analyse des étapes pré-décision et post-projet.

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21/04/2026

📌Renforcement de capacités sur le processus des Études d'Impacts Environnementales et Sociales (EIES).

SynDev, avec l'appui de AJWS, organise les 21 et 22 avril 2026 à Dakar, un atelier d'information et de formation destiné à 15 femmes leaders.
Cette initiative vise à favoriser une meilleure inclusion des acteurs communautaires dans les processus de décision liés aux projets d'infrastructures.
Points clés de l'atelier :
🔘Compréhension du cadre administratif et des étapes des études d'impact.
🔘Analyse des mécanismes de consultation et de participation du public.
🔘Échanges sur l'accès à l'information environnementale pour un meilleur suivi des projets locaux.

20/04/2026

2026 Spring Meetings: Public Livestreams and Replays
From policy to outcomes across water, jobs, energy, agriculture, health, and gender
The 2026 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group brought together global leaders to focus on one central challenge: creating jobs and driving growth through better policies.

Watch the full series of event replays exploring how policy reform, partnerships, and data‑driven tools can deliver real‑world impact across sectors: https://bit.ly/4dYxU54

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April 13-18, 2026 — Watch the Spring Meetings Public Events to hear from experts shaping the future of jobs, water, and food security.