Location
Benin / Côte d'Ivoire / Mauritania / São Tomé and Príncipe / Senegal / Togo / Africa
Project record
WACA ResIP 1 coastal protection works programme
WACA ResIP 1 is in its final delivery phase across six countries, but its civil works do not form one regional construction contract. Côte d'Ivoire's Grand-Lahou works, Senegal's Gorée protection, and country packages in Benin, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Togo carry different scope, schedule, environmental, social, and acceptance conditions. ResIP 2 and the 2026 WACA+ programme are follow-on frameworks and are not evidence that ResIP 1 packages are complete or re-awarded.
Segment
Coastal infrastructure
Status
ResIP 1 in finalisation; country work fronts and closing dates remain separate / Confirmed
Last checked
17 July 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Coastal infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Participating governments and implementing agencies in Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Mauritania, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, and Togo
- Delivery parties
- Country and package contractors are not consolidated in the reviewed regional restructuring records
- Contract route
- World Bank regional investment financing implemented through country project units and separate country-level civil-works, consulting, environmental, and community packages
- Execution window
- ResIP 1 is in finalisation, but there is no single valid regional completion date for every work front. The May 2025 restructuring paper extended Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal to June 2026. A June 2026 Senegal additional-financing paper then proposed a further 12-month extension to 30 June 2027 without changing Senegal's scope. Country dates must therefore be controlled against the relevant restructuring or financing record.
- Works package
- Multi-country erosion and flood-risk reduction through coastal protection, lagoon and waterway works, quays, dikes, rockfill, drainage, landscape management, ecosystem restoration, monitoring systems, and institutional measures. The record is a programme map, not a substitute for country package definitions.
- Marine interfaces
- Lagoon dredging, inlet and barrier management, rock and dike protection, quays at Braffédon, Singapour, and Lahou Kpanda, Gorée Island coastal structures, coastal drainage, live-community access, sediment behaviour, sea-state work windows, and heritage and environmental controls vary by country and site.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- ResIP 1 comprises multiple country packages and financing decisions, not a single cross-border tender or one contractor award. Senegal's additional-financing request reflects cost and schedule pressure on existing scope; it is not evidence of a new regional marine contract. ResIP 2 and WACA+ create separate future opportunity lanes whose finance and scope must not be attributed to ResIP 1.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogSenegal sought more time for the Gorée works
The additional-financing paper linked the delay to sea conditions, supply constraints, inflation, and heritage-site design changes, then proposed a 30 June 2027 closing date. That date remains a financing proposal, not a completion record for Gorée or the wider programme.
SourceThe World Bank launched WACA+ as a separate programme
The first WACA+ financing covers new work in Benin and Mauritania. It opens a follow-on pipeline but does not extend every ResIP 1 contract or change the status of the six-country work fronts already under delivery.
SourceThe regional steering committee put ResIP 1 in its final phase
The update separated ResIP 1 close-out from ResIP 2 expansion into The Gambia, Ghana, and Guinea-Bissau. Each country still needs its own civil-works, safeguards, and acceptance record.
SourceThe World Bank revised the Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal timelines
The restructuring paper recorded delays and moved both country programmes to June 2026. It did not create one regional construction schedule: Grand-Lahou, Gorée, and the other work fronts remain separate packages.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Country-specific closing dates and financing effectiveness
- Grand-Lahou and Gorée contractor programmes and sea-state work windows
- Lagoon, inlet, barrier, quay, dike, rockfill, drainage, and promenade acceptance by site
- Sediment, erosion, flood, heritage, environmental, and community-access controls
- Environmental and social action close-out rather than civil completion alone
- As-built surveys, owner acceptance, and maintenance responsibility
- Clear handover boundaries between ResIP 1, ResIP 2, and WACA+
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 5
- West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project restructuring paper World Bank, 21 May 2025
- West Africa Coastal Areas Resilience Investment Project restructuring document World Bank, 22 October 2024
- Senegal WACA ResIP additional-financing project paper World Bank, 25 June 2026; disclosed 7 July 2026
- WACA 2025 regional steering committee and 2026 work-plan update WACA Program / World Bank, 16 December 2025
- WACA+ first-phase financing and programme boundary World Bank, 17 March 2026