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Mandate:

Under the authority of the Ministry for the Environment and Sustainable Development, the Directorate of Water, Forestry, Hunting and Soil Conservation (DEFCCS) is in charge of formulating and implementing national forestry policy. The Directorate enacts State prerogatives in the areas of soil conservation and management of forest ecosystems and wildlife.

Main activities:

• restructuring the forestry sector on the basis of a strategy of participatory reclassification/declassification of forestry zones involving all relevant actors
• rationalizing the exploitation of forestry resources by systematizing the implementation of sustainable development plans for forests with populations at their heart
• undertaking soil conservation and restoration actions and promoting the certification of forestry products
• improving the conservation of biodiversity in all ecosystems and restoring the production capacity of agrarian and agroforestry systems
• using synergy to promote public forestry based on the management of protected areas and support/advice, community forestry including urban forestry to promote natural resource management by local groups and private forestry to add value
• strengthening the technical capacities of State agents, local elected officials and grass roots organizations and developing their management and organizational capacities
• seeking synergy among various national development policies by linking forestry programmes with other operational public programmes such as park and reserve management, National Agricultural Development Programme (PNDA), National Livestock Development Programme (PNDE), the agro-sylvo-pastoral development policy, energy subsector policy document, poverty reduction strategy paper (DSRP), land management, town planning, hydraulic energy, tourism and so forth.

• Providing expertise to other countries or institutions:
• Providing reference substances, services or training to other countries or institutions:
• Collaboration with FAO and other institutions and organizations:
• Knowledge dissemination: conferences, meetings and publications 

• public department

• Capacity building (forest inventory, forest management, cartography, internships)
• Partnership (receiving interns, secondment of experts)

Colonel Baidy Ba, Director of Water, Forests, Hunting and Soil Conservation 
Telephone: +221 33 831 01 01
E-mail: [email protected]

TITLE AND FULL NAME: Mamadou Gaye, water and forestry engineer, Head of Forest Management Office  

Areas of expertise: Sylviculture, forest management, planning, monitoring and assessment, forest economies, agroforestry, project formulation and so forth.

Number of years experience: 15

Brief CV (maximum 150 words)

ü  University courses: (i) Water and forestry engineering diploma from the National College for Rural Managers in Bambey (ENCR), (ii) diploma in design engineering in agricultural sciences (forestry option) from the Rural Polytechnic Institute for Training and Applied Research in Katibougou (IPR/IFRA, Mali) and (iii) many other certificates from courses attended in Senegal and abroad

ü  November 2014 to present: Head of Forest Management Office in the Directorate of Water, Forestry, Hunting and Soil Conservation in Senegal /Dakar

ü  February 2014 to November 2014: Deputy to Regional Inspector of Water and Forestry in Kaolack 

ü  February 2009 to October 2010: Deputy to Regional Inspector of Water and Forestry in Sédhiou and Head of the Division of Forest Management, Monitoring and Assessment  

ü  June 2005 - January 2009: Head of the Division of Monitoring, Assessment and Training at the Regional Inspectorate for Water and Forestry in Kolda

ü   October 2005: Recruited into the civil service and assigned to the Ministry of the Environment and Nature Protection  

ü  January to September 2005: Assistant to the Head of Monitoring and Assessment of the Regional Coordination Office (BRC) of the National Rural Infrastructure Programme (PNIR) in Tambacounda 

ü  September to December 2004: Interim Departmental Supervisor of the USU/PNIR Office in Kédougou 

ü  April 2003 to September 2004: Assistant to the Departmental Coordinator of the National Rural Infrastructure Programme (PNIR) in the rural community of Bandafassi

ü  July 1999 to January 2003: Regional Coordinator (Saint Louis) of activities under the Programme of Agricultural Recovery and Partnership for Economic Growth (PROVAL/PEG) implemented by the United States NGO Winrock International.

The above information is hereby certified as correct.