Drought is the world’s costliest natural disaster and affects more people than any other form of natural catastrophe. Due to climate change and associated effects, the duration and intensity of drought is expected to increase in the coming decades. In order to address this pressing issue, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), are collaborating to implement a UN-Water capacity development initiative on National Drought Management Policies (NDMP). The objective of this joint UN-Water initiative is to increase the capacities in developing countries and countries in transition on the development of risk-based national drought management policies.
In the framework of this initiative, six regional training workshops have been carried out: the sixth and final workshop being for West and Central Africa region, which was held from 04-07 May 2015 in Accra, Ghana. It was attended by 30 representatives from countries in the region: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, The Gambia and Togo.
The purpose of this webpage is to present the detailed contents of the 6th regional workshop.
