3rd AI-CD regional forum for the Sahel region

Start Date

July 16, 2019

End Date

July 18, 2019

Type

Meeting

Location

Dakar

Enrico Bonaiuti ◦ MEL Team Leader (ICARDA)

The 3rd Regional Forum for the Sahel on African Initiative for Combating Desertification to Strengthen Resilience to Climate Change in the Sahel and Horn of Africa (AI-CD) was held from for 16 to 17 July in Dakar, Senegal. It particularly focused on access to finance for promoting policy implementation in combating desertification by AI-CD participating countries.

Agenda:

Progress achieved in terms of networking, knowledge sharing and access to finance
Representatives from BurkinaFaso, Chad, Cameroun, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal presented project concept notes aiming to access to finance and implement a project on the ground
Presentation on the CILSS Concept Note
Presentation of AI-CD organizational chart for Sahel
Presentation of Desertification funding mechanisms by partners (FAO/GEF/BAD/ICARDA)

ICARDA presented the Strategy, funding, monitoring and learning @ ICARDA-CGIAR

Strategy, funding, monitoring and learning @ ICARDA-CGIAR from ICARDA

Reference: AI-CD Facebook page

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