Strengthening partnership at regional level

A GWP delegation including the Chair, Prof. MAIGA, ES Armand HOUANYE, Technical Committee chair, Dr. BARRY and Network Officer, Julienne ROUX met on 16, 17 and 19 October with several institutions to start or strengthen collaboration. The personalities and institutions met include the Executive Director of the Volta Basin Authority (VBA), IFAD Burkina Faso Office,

AfDB Burkina Faso Office, Executive Secretary of CILSS, IUCN Regional Office for West and Central Africa, Head of the EU Delegation in Burkina Faso, Royal Danish Embassy, Oxfam, Secretary General of the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, UEMOA Commissioner for Agriculture, Water Resources and Environment, World Bank.

Topics discussed varied from one institution to the other from updating and signing the partnership agreement with VBA to the collaboration for the GEF project and the establishment of a specific framework for collaboration between CWPs and IUCN-PACO national offices.

Most of the organizations met like IFAD, AfDB, World Bank, the EU delegation are open to discuss opportunities for new or strengthen collaboration with GWP WA through the CWP in most cases. One of the major concern areas that came out is for GWP-WA to obtains a headquarters agreement that will make it easier to eventually benefit from AfDB financing opportunities.

Letters of thanks were sent by the Executive Secretary to the various structures for the follow-up of the recommendations and the partnership undertaken.