The Regional Partnership for the Conservation of the Coastal and Marine Zone (PRCM) is a coalition of actors working on West African coastal issues and covering seven countries: Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

The coastal and marine area covered by the PRCM (Mauritania, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone) is an area of ​​strategic interest for a number of economic activities and for nearly half of the 35 million inhabitants of these countries

It is on the coast that the major urban centers of these countries are located and that important activities such as fishing, tourism or the exploitation of hydrocarbons and mines are developed. The coast is for these reasons subject to many pressures with sometimes contradictory interests that are difficult to control. To deal with these various pressures and threats, concerted actions at the international, regional, national and sometimes local levels should be carried out.

It is within this framework that the actors intervening in the ecoregion, aware of the need to combine their efforts to face the challenges of coastal conservation and the sustainable management of its resources, intend to provide concerted responses within the framework of the Partnership. Regional for the Conservation of the Coastal and Marine Zone of West Africa – PRCM.