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.
As part of the regular monitoring of project activities the EU has conducted an external Results Oriented Monitoring (ROM) mission of the European Commission. The mission took place from 27 June to 5 July 2022 and was led by the ROM expert Filinto Omar Martis Sallah.
On 19 and 20 May 2022, a workshop was held in Conakry to restitute and validate the results of the study mission on "The realization of the prospective diagnosis of the Fouta Djallon Massif along with the analysis of opportunities and the proposal of options/priorities for the restoration of the degraded ecosystems of the Massif".
An online Workshop on “Gender Equality (GE) for Sustainable Development in Nexus sectors in Drin Riparians” took place on 12 October 2021 with the participation of around 55 representatives from different gender related institutions and nexus related sectors, gender focal points, civil society, academia, women empowerment activists and experts from Albania, Kosovo* and North Macedonia. Its overall purpose was to bring these actors together to discuss challenges and opportunities for promoting gender equality as a driver for sustainable development in Drin Riparians.
The speech below was given by GWPSA Chair, H.E. President Jakaya Kikwete, during the “Towards an International High-Level Panel on Water Investments for Africa” event on 2 November 2021, held at COP26’s first ever Water Pavilion.
Twenty young water and climate professionals from Hungary, Slovakia, Belgium, France and Sweden form the first cohort of the Youth for Water and Climate Program.
