Capacity building

Capacity-building and strategy workshops

In many African countries, public funding bodies such as the African Development Bank (ADB) and the World Bank (WB) are the leading members of the group of Technical and Financial Partners (TFPs), playing a crucial role in the fight against poverty and the construction of infrastructure.

IFIs/BMLDs operations

However, the operations of IFIs/BMLDs do not always bring happiness to the host communities, and the latter very often lack the expertise and means to assess their work and hold these particular economic players to account when the projects they finance cause negative impacts on their rights.

Coal-fired power plant project

By way of example, the 125 MW Sendou coal-fired power plant project in Bargny, designed to reduce Senegal's chronic energy deficit, has led to land disputes, the loss of livelihoods for over 1,000 women threatened with relocation and as many fishermen, and enormous environmental risks, without local communities being informed, enlightened or edified about their future.

Another project, the Train Express Régional (TER), aimed at increasing mobility in an area that concentrates a quarter of Senegal's population and generates more than half the country's GDP, has resulted in the displacement of 14465 PAPs and the impoverishment of nearly 2000 families in the Dakar department and its suburbs.

In this context, civil society in general needs to be much more attentive to the operations and impacts of IFIs/BMLDs, in order to fully play its intrinsic role of watchdog and alert. However, civil society does not always have the necessary skills and/or knowledge of these special financial players to be effectively involved.

This is why, in order to reduce the knowledge gap of IFIs, LSD organizes capacity-building and strategy workshops throughout Africa on the transparency and accountability policies of International Financial Institutions and specifically on the African Development Bank (ADB).

Involuntary Resettlement Policy of the African Development Bank.

To better involve journalists and information professionals in the monitoring of infrastructure projects financed by the AfDB, LSD with the support of Open Society Africa organized a press lunch this January 16, 2024 in Abidjan. The overall objective of this workshop is to build the capacity of the Ivorian press on the AfDB's involuntary resettlement standards.

Information workshop with stakeholders of the Dakar-Saint Louis freeway project.

LSD a organisée ce 26 octobre un atelier d’information des parties prenantes du projet d’autoroute Dakar-Saint Louis financé par la Banque Africaine de Développement.

Media Training: LSD in partnership with WoMin trains 15 women leaders from the Saloum Delta in Media Training on September 11 and 12 in Ndagane.

L’objectif est de renforcer les capacités des femmes en communication face aux médias et une meilleure plaidoyer en faveur d’une justice climatique dans le cadre de l’exploitation du pétrole de Sangomar.

Climate change:
30 girls from Bargny and the Saloum delta learn about the issues and challenges involved

Lumière Synergie pour le développement, en partenariat avec Foundation for a Just Society, a lancé ce 12 août à Saly Portudal le programme École Écoféministe.

Sub-regional training on the "Right to Say No

LSD en partenariat avec WoMin accueille 35 activistes de 9 pays d’Afrique de l’ouest et Afrique centrale à Saly, au Sénégal pour une formation sur le Droit de Dire Non.

Training in the use of social networks for women leaders in the Saloum Delta

LSD en partenariat avec Womin Africa Alliance dote 16 femmes du Delta du Saloum de smartphones et les forme sur l’usage des réseaux sociaux, le 3 et 4 juin 2023 à Saly.