Compétences Professionnelles et Employabilité des Jeunes en Environnement (COPEJ)

Initiated by the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles (Cégep), the "Compétences Professionnelles et Employabilité des Jeunes en Environnement (COPEJ)" project aims to improve community resilience by integrating young women and men into a sustainable, inclusive economic system that promotes adaptation to climate change. It addresses three major challenges: helping populations adapt to climate change, fighting poverty in the project's intervention areas, and integrating young people, especially young women, into the socio-economic lives.

With a duration of 6.5 years (2025-2032), it targets the communities of the Saloum Delta and the Senegal River Delta; two regions that are particularly vulnerable to climate change. These two areas, composed of several protected areas, face severe climate impacts: sea level rise, extreme weather events, floods, coastal erosion, salinization of agricultural land, and loss of biodiversity. These phenomena are deteriorating people's living conditions, making them more vulnerable to food insecurity and poverty.

The COPEJ project will focus on three main areas to strengthen community resilience to climate change:

  • Training young people in the fields of the blue and green circular economy;
  • The integration of young people and women into jobs related to these fields;
  • Their participation in the governance of sustainable resource management.
  • The construction of the two school companies taking into account vulnerabilities and people living with disabilities.

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Latest update

November 6th, 2026 – The public comment period on the project is closed. Global Affairs Canada is considering comments received to help inform its determination on whether the carrying out of the project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects.

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Key documents

Key documents
Document number Document title File Date
1 Notice of Intent to Make a Determination – Start of Public Comment Period - COPEJ - October 6, 2026

Contacts

Environment Specialists
Global Affairs Canada
200 Promenade du Portage
Gatineau QC J8X 4B7
Email: CommentsIAARegistry-CommentairesRegistreLEI@international.gc.ca


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This map is for illustrative purposes. The markers represent the approximate locations based on available data. More than one marker may be identified for a given assessment.

  • Location

    • Senegal (Outside Canada)
    • Senegal (Outside Canada)

  • Nature of activity

    • Agriculture
    • Building and Property Development

  • Assessment status

    In progress

  • Start date

    2026-10-06

  • Proponent

    Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles

  • Authorities

    • Global Affairs Canada

  • Assessment type

    Project outside of Canada

  • Reference number

    90823
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