Evaluation overview Typha Combustible Construction Afrique de l’Ouest project (TyCCAO)

Typha australis is a fast-growing reed which has been proliferating in the Senegal basin at increased rate following construction of the Diama anti-salt dam in 1988. This proliferation raises serious issues for public health, water security, natural risk prevention, and maintaining biodiversity in the Senegal River delta, and is also impacting local economic activities. The TyCCAO project forms part of a strategy of control through structuring industries to make use of the resource rather than eradicate it, and follows-on from previous initiatives.