Forum of National and Regional Stakeholders on Climate-Smart Agriculture in West Africa, May 27-30, 2014, Bamako (Mali)
The objective of the Forum is to facilitate a collective reflection on opportunities, issues, challenges and strategic choices for the development of a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) in West Africa, in order to define the ECOWAS framework for intervention, funding, monitoring and evaluation on CSA, and to operationalize its implementation through the establishment an Alliance for consistency and coordination of initiatives on CSA in West Africa.
Specifically, it is to:
- Collectively better understand the scientific, political and financial landscape of CSA in West Africa, in the sub-sectors of crop production, livestock and pastoralism, fishery, forestry and water resources management;
- Analyze the ins and outs of CSA in the West African context, and to conduct a collective thinking process on the related opportunities, issues, challenges and strategic choices associated vis-à-vis these different sub-sectors;
- Present national and regional programs and policies relating to CSA in all these sub-sectors; and to discuss about their progress and bottlenecks, as well as their level of their inter-sectoral consistency and coordination;
- Give non-State stakeholders (farmers’ organizations, civil society organizations, private sector) the opportunity to prepare and bring to the table their messages, positions and contributions on the Forum related themes, towards national and regional decision-makers as well as regional and international scientific and technical organizations;
- Give countries the opportunity to identify and present their support needs and requests towards regional and international institutions to better integrate CSA into their NAIP while reinforcing their consistency and coordination with NAPAs/NPAs and IWRM-AP at national level, and articulation with RAIP at regional one;
- Give regional and institutional institutions the opportunity to present their initiatives and offers for intervention tools, approaches/mechanisms and services towards countries, and reinforce the consistency and coordination of their initiatives, based on the needs expressed by the countries, for better interventions efficiency;
- Contribute, on a participative and inclusive basis, to the definition of the upcoming ECOWAS intervention, funding, monitoring and evaluation framework on CSA, as part of the overarching ECOWAP/CAADP implementation, funding, monitoring and evaluation mechanism;
- Support the operationalization of this intervention framework by establishing an Alliance for the consistency and coordination of CSA initiatives in West Africa.
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