Copernicea

Bringing together six french-speaking countries — Burkina Faso, Guinea, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, and Tunisia, Copernicea or the "Regional Cooperation for New Indicators of Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounting in Africa" project, forms part of a broader effort to build the regional capacities in ecosystem accounting, with the shared ambition of progressively institutionalizing Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounting (ENCA) at national and regional levels.

At the heart of the project lies the development of a national and regional coordinated information-sharing network to support the production, exchange, and use of data relevant to ecosystem accounting processes.

For this goal to be achieved, the project framework promotes the pooling and harmonization of data held or produced by national institutions, the improvement of access to data for a broad spectrum of users, and the alignment of data to international accounting standards. It also includes the establishment of operational, autonomous ENCA systems in each of the six participating countries.

Not only does Copernicea serve as a mechanism for producing robust, localized outcomes but also as a model for adaptation and replication in other countries across the region.