Collaborating with the National Water Institute of Benin on Knowledge sharing

At the end of April 2022, GWP-WA Secretariat was approached by the Benin CWP with a request of collaboration from the National Water Institute of Benin to mobilize resource persons in the region to provide appropriate content and to conduct 3 webinars on:

- Webinar 1: Water governance in the Sahel (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger);

- Webinar 2: Water resources management planning in the Sahel (Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger);

- Webinar 3: Hydro-diplomacy and means of conflict resolution around the resource in the Sahel.

GWP-WA agreed to support such a dynamic by mobilizing speakers and resource persons such as: (i) Mr. Bourama TRAORÉ from Mali and Prof. SANDAO Issoufou the Permanent Secretary of PANGIRE from Niger for Webinar 1; (ii) Mr. CONGO Moustapha the Permanent Secretary of IWRM from Burkina Faso and Prof. SANDAO Issoufou the Permanent Secretary of PANGIRE from Niger for Webinar 2; and (iii) Mr. Armand HOUANYE GWP-WA Executive Secretary for Webinar 3.

GWP-WA contributed to the technical framing of the content and coherence between the elements (theoretical aspects and case studies) of each of the 3 Webinars taking part in online preparation meetings as well as the provision of technical supports. GWP also ensured the effective participation of the resource persons in the Webinar 1 on 2 May 2022 from 11:30 to 13:00 GMT, Webinar 2 on 9 May 2022 from 11:30 to 13:00 GMT and Webinar 3 on 20 May 2022 from 11:30 to 13:00 GMT.

The INE Teachers are very satisfied with this collaboration and have proposed to formalize it very soon with GWP-WA in order to work together on new projects and benefit from the GWP expertise and network of experts, resource persons and partners.