Workshop: Assisting farmers and institutions to better adapt to climate change and variability in West Africa
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and The International Union of Conservation of Nature, Central and West Africa programme (IUCN-PACO) are organizing series of workshops on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) to strengthen the adaptive capacity of farmers and institutions to climate change in 4 out of 5 pilot countries.
The CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and The International Union of Conservation of Nature, Central and West Africa programme (IUCN-PACO) are organizing series of workshops on Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) to strengthen the adaptive capacity of farmers and institutions to climate change in 4 out of 5 pilot countries.
Initiated in Burkina Faso in early March, 9 March to 11 March 2012, and then held in Niger from July 25 to July 27 2012, the workshop is now being rolled out in Mali from September 27 to September 29 2012.
People and organizations, CBOs, NGOs and governmental organisations, adapt better to changing conditions if they are able to anticipate future changes, monitor current changes, as well as observe and assess the effects of efforts to improve their situation. In other words, they can better adapt if they can monitor and evaluate their own adaptation practices and/or strategies, either formally or informally. Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is therefore a practice that can greatly improve learning from experience.
Therefore, the overall objective of the workshop is to promote the integration of planning and M & E’s tools among National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) scientists in order:
(i) to facilitate their understanding of the basic concepts related to the capacity to adapt to climate change and the tools contained in the kit;
(ii) to enable participants to apply different tools to produce the information necessary for planning, monitoring and evaluation of capacity to adapt to climate change.
Participants at this workshop come from NARS (IER), extension services, NGOs, civil society, farmers organization’s involved and/or of interest in climate change adaptation monitoring and evaluation.
For further information, please contact:
CCAFS West Africa Regional Program Leader: r [dot] zougmore [at] cgiar [dot] org (Dr Robert Zougmoré); and
IUCN Regional Program Officer, Jacques [dot] somda [at] iucn [dot] org (Dr Jacques Somda)
