Cote Dlvoire, Nov. 14 -- The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund has awarded a grant of $9.48 million to implement the Community and Ecosystem Resilience and Adaptation in the Wetlands of the Sahel Catchment Basins Project.The financial support comes from the Climate Action Window -- a climate change financing mechanism backed by the African Development Fund, the concessional lending window of the African Development Bank Group.The funding will address a range of climate and human-induced challenges affecting the Sahel's main river catchments. The Sahelian wetlands of the catchment basins in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal are subject to ongoing degradation due to unsustainable exploitation practices, ineffective manage...