Saint-Louis: climate-displaced women and young people benefit from management capacity building

The NGO Action Education and its partners organized, from October 19 to 21, 2026, in Saint-Louis, a workshop to strengthen the organizational and financial capacities of climate-displaced women from Khar Yalla, in the Bamba Dièye city. The initiative aims to support their economic reconversion and strengthen their autonomy, after the loss of their traditional activities linked to fishing.

Climate-displaced women from Khar Yalla benefit from support to better structure their income-generating activities. This initiative is part of the project to improve the economic living conditions of climate-displaced women and young people, developed by Action Éducation through the cooperative action research workshop (ACORA).

According to Abdel Kader Fall, focal point of Action Education, the organization has been supporting this dynamic for almost two years. After initial material support and training in processing local cereals, a group of around fifty members, made up of women and young people, now benefits from capacity building in administrative, organizational and financial management. “We first carried out an evaluation with the group. Members told us they needed training in organizational and financial management,” he explained. :

A follow-up is planned until December in order to consolidate the achievements. For Ababacar Sy, member of the Aar Sunu Alam platform, this support responds to the difficulties encountered by these women since their displacement. Deprived of their fishing-related activities, they must find new sources of income to ensure their subsistence. “It was necessary to find alternative solutions to the phenomenon of climate change, in a logic of resilience and adaptation”, underlined.

For her part, Aïda Diaw Ndoye, socio-economist at the MSA firm, insists on the importance of management and organization to ensure the sustainability of activities. She also mentions the possibility of supporting the group in its administrative formalization and strengthening its leadership and entrepreneurship skills.

Representing the mayor of Saint-Louis, Adja Nafy Sow, municipal councilor, invited the beneficiaries to apply the knowledge acquired. “There is always training, but we often leave the documents in the drawers. We have to keep practicing to get results,” she insisted. Beyond this workshop, the partners intend to continue their support to promote the economic integration of climate-displaced women and sustainably improve their living conditions.