Benin validates Gender and Climate Change Action plan 2023-2025

The validation workshop of the Benin gender and climate change action plan (PAGCCB) 2023-2025 was held at Grand-Popo in Benin, on July 28 and 29, 2022. The official ceremony was chaired by Mr. BIAO MONGAZI Wilfried, Director of Climate Change Management (DGCC) of the Ministry of Living Environment and Sustainable Development (MCVDD), who recalled the need for Benin to adopt the PAGCCB and welcomed the realization of this project, which is important to Benin.

The workshop facilitated by the Climate Analytics (CA) team  was attended by 31 people (13 women and 18 men) composed of members of the CA team, strategic actors at the level of the ministries (including the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development ; the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries ; the Ministry of Energy ; the Ministry of Water and Mines ; the Ministry of Social Affairs and Microfinance ; the Ministry of Development and Coordination of Government Action ; the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts ; the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport ; the Ministry of Health ; NGOs; stakeholders from the Country Water Partnership, ANCB ; and resource persons.

Participants amended the document, and the team is invited to take the observations into account for the final report and to prepare sectoral sheets to include the key indicators for each sector in the PAGCCB document.

The Benin WACDEP-G team is involved in the process.