| This report is intended to be a West African contribution to a global study of IIED on community wildlife management issues. Its geographic focus is the 16 member countries of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), including 9 francophone countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Ivory-Coast, Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea,Togo), 5 anglophone countries (Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, The Gambia) and 2 lusophone countries (Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde). This region has more than 200 million inhabitants. Eight (8) of the 16 countries concerned are part of the Sahelian region, and are members of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS)1. The remaining ones are generally considered as being better... |
