Conservation Tracking

RCoE Action

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The African Development Corridors Database (ADCD) is a comprehensive, georeferenced database detailing 79 ongoing and planned investment corridors across Africa, synthesizing data on 184 specific infrastructure projects (railways, ports, pipelines, airports, techno-cities, and industrial parks). Its purpose is to allow for critical assessment of the spatial and temporal impacts of massive infrastructure investments to maximize development opportunities and support the UN Sustainable Development Goals and AU Agenda 2063. The database includes 22 interlinked tabular and spatial attributes with provided sources, which is expected to improve coordination, efficiency, strategic planning, transparency, and impact assessments for governments, investment banks, practitioners, and conservationists, among other stakeholders.

The INFORM Risk Index 2021 is a composite model structured into a hierarchy of dimensions, categories, and components. All scores are normalized on a scale of 0 to 10 (10 being the highest risk).

Below is the clear breakdown of the index's architecture based on your descriptions:

The Composite Index

The top-level score representing a country's overall risk of humanitarian crisis. It is used to assign countries into Risk Classes:

Low: ≤3.5
Medium: 3.5−5.0
High: 5.0−6.5
Very High: ≥6.5

Dimension: Vulnerability

This dimension measures the predisposition of a population to be affected by a hazard based on economic, political, and social characteristics.

Sub-Index: Socio-Economic Vulnerability

An aggregate index covering three main components of systemic instability:

Development Deprivation: Measures poverty using the Human Development Index (HDI) and Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).
Inequality: Captures the dispersion of human development, including the Gender Inequality Index and the Gini Coefficient.
Aid Dependency: Measures economic instability through reliance on public aid, development assistance, and remittances.

Sub-Index: Vulnerable Groups

Captures social groups with limited access to care and heightened susceptibility:

Uprooted People: Tracks refugees, IDPs, and returnees.
Children Under 5: Specifically monitors child malnutrition and mortality rates.
Recent Shocks: Factors in populations already affected by natural disasters in the last 3 years.
Food Security: Captures trends in chronic hunger and nutritional balance.
Health Conditions: Monitors the prevalence of pandemics (HIV, TB, Malaria) and neglected tropical diseases.

Dimension: Lack of Coping Capacity

This dimension measures the ability of a country to manage and recover from disasters through its infrastructure and government effort.

Sub-Index: Institutional Capacity

Measures the "soft" infrastructure of a country's disaster management:

Governance: Captures government effectiveness, resilience-building, and political integrity (lack of corruption).
DRR Implementation: Quantifies how well Disaster Risk Reduction activities are actually put into practice.

Sub-Index: Infrastructure

Measures the "hard" assets and systems available during a crisis:

Communication: Evaluates the efficiency of early warning dissemination and the literacy/education of the recipients.
Physical Connectivity: Assesses the accessibility of transport and the quality/availability of water and sanitation services.
Access to Healthcare: Captures health system strength, including physician density and maternal/infant health services.

Net official development assistance (ODA) is government aid designed to promote the economic development and welfare of developing countries. Aid may be provided bilaterally, from donor to recipient, or channelled through a multilateral development agency such as the United Nations or the World Bank. Net official aid (OA) refers to aid flows from official donors to more advanced (developing) countries and territories. Official aid is provided under terms and conditions similar to those for ODA. This map shows the aggregated figure (sum of ODA and OA) for African countries. Data are in current U.S. dollars.

This spatial dataset contains the geographic boundaries and ecological evaluations of 45 Key Landscapes for Conservation and Development (KLCDs) across Sub-Saharan Africa. Building on the <a href="https://africa-knowledge-platform.ec.europa.eu/dataset/key-landscapes-c…; Key Landscapes for Conservation (KLCs) </a> identified in the EU report <a href="https://op.europa.eu/sl/publication-detail/-/publication/d76ac7eb-bc4a-…;“Larger than elephants”</a>, the NaturAfrica initiative is rolled out across these key biodiversity and development landscapes.

NaturAfrica's efforts are concentrated on ‘mega-landscapes’—biogeographical regions identified as crucial for both conservation and development. These regions encompass:
<ul>
<li>The forest ecosystems of the Congo Basin;</li>
<li>Landscapes of transhumance pastoralists in North Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Chad;</li>
<li>Guinean forests of West Africa;</li>
<li>Savannahs in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of West Africa;</li>
<li>Savannahs and watersheds of the East Africa rift;</li>
<li>Transfrontier conservation areas of Southern Africa.</li>
</ul>

The layer was developed to support the prioritization of intervention areas for the second phase of this initiative, which combines conservation with sustainable job creation. It provides a spatially explicit characterization of ecological value across these landscapes, evaluated and attributed based on five core ecological and environmental dimensions:
<ul>
<li>Threatened Species Richness: Concentration and diversity of threatened species.</li>
<li>Species Endemicity: Presence of endemic species unique to the specific geographic region.</li>
<li>Ecosystem Integrity: The integrity of protected and conserved areas, accounting for degrees of human modification and habitat fragmentation.</li>
<li>Ecological Connectivity: The degree of connectivity and spatial linkages between protected and conserved areas.</li>
<li>Ecosystem Services: Provisioning and regulating services, with a specific focus on carbon storage and water services.</li>
</ul>

Purpose
The layer was created to inform the EC Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA) and policymakers in selecting and prioritizing funding intervention areas based on specific targets (e.g., species conservation, connectivity, or water security) within different biogeographical regions. It serves as a spatial decision-support tool to align with the European Green Deal and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

Geographic Extent
<ul>
<li>Region: Sub-Saharan Africa</li>
<li>Coverage: 45 distinct Key Landscapes for Conservation and Development (KLCDs)</li>
</ul>

Keywords
<ul>
<li>Thematic: Biodiversity Conservation, NaturAfrica, Ecosystem Services, Protected Areas, Habitat Connectivity, Species Endemicity, European Green Deal, Ecosystem Integrity, Transfrontier Conservation, Mega-landscapes.</li>
<li>Spatial: Sub-Saharan Africa, Congo Basin, West Africa, East Africa, Southern Africa, Sudano-Sahelian zone.</li>
</ul>

Lineage / Data Source
This dataset is derived from the <a href="https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC145021"> technical assessment conducted for the European Commission Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity (KCBD) </a>.