Proexca and Gesplan announced last Friday that they will receive almost €1 million thanks to the Interreg MAC programme, which has just been awarded to them to carry out the ATCLIMA project, in which they will work with Senegal. The announcement was made during a reverse mission that both institutions are carrying out together with the Canary Islands Chambers of Commerce, with public officials from Senegal from different sectors.
The ATCLIMA project is a ‘dynamic system of advice from companies for the development of high-impact infrastructure and public services in the fight against climate change and environmental resilience’. The partners in Senegal are the Agency for the Development and Management of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (ADEPME), the Society for the Development and Promotion of Coasts and Tourist Areas of Senegal (SPACO), the Ministry of the Environment and Ecological Transition, and the Secretary of State for Urban Planning and Housing.
ATCLIMA responds to the need for administrations to improve their capacity to address environmental and climate challenges through innovative solutions from the private sector. The project will work with a public-private approach in strategic sectors in Senegal, such as sustainable tourism, urban planning, housing and coastal management.
The work is divided into three phases: systematising the operating protocol between the partners and generating practical tools; adapting it, together with local actors, to Senegal’s priority issues; and implementing technical assistance in which companies from the Canary Islands and Senegal co-design solutions together with the administrations. These solutions will be validated and integrated into policies and procedures, generating sustainable changes and strengthening territorial cooperation between Africa and Europe in favour of sustainability.
This programme, now Interreg MAC, is the result of joint work between the Canary Islands and Senegal, which have been working for years on the economic growth of these regions. So much so that this week, Senegalese public agencies from sectors such as urban planning, the environment, tourism, agriculture and forestry are in the Canary Islands to establish collaborative links with institutions and companies in these sectors in the Canary Islands, with whom they have been meeting to promote their projects to the Senegalese market.
