The African Development Bank and the Niger Basin Authority (ABN) organized a regional workshop to evaluate the mid-term results of the Integrated Program for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/BN), in Niamey on 28 May 2024. The workshop was opened by Niger’s Minister for Water, Sanitation and the Environment, Maizama Abdoulaye.
The program, which runs from 2019 to 2025, aims to strengthen the population’s resilience to climate change in the nine Niger Basin countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad.
The workshop was an opportunity to examine the physical and financial progress of the national and regional components, the program’s institutional arrangements and implementation approaches, and the application of procurement procedures. It was also a chance to assess progress and the time needed to adjust procurement procedures to speed up post-review activities.
A series of recommendations and strategic guidance emerged, particularly regarding activity costs and program length. The aim is to implement several activities, including those relating to community or multi-purpose infrastructure, and community-led development sub-projects.
The Integrated Programme for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin costs approximately USD 218.66 million. Of that amount, USD 77.55 million is being funded by the African Development Bank Group through the African Development Fund, USD 67.80 million is being financed by the Green Climate Fund, the European Union is providing EUR 14.60 million, the Global Environment Facility is funding USD 12.01 million and the Strategic Climate Fund is providing USD 9 million. Government counterpart funding from the nine countries in the Basin Authority and the beneficiaries amounts to USD 33.42 million. The German Development Agency, through the German Development Bank KFW, is providing matching funding of EUR 10 million for the Mali component and EUR 14 million for the Guinea component.

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The Niger Basin Authority, with the support of the African Development Bank (AfDB), organized the strategic mid-term review of the Integrated Development and Climate Change Adaptation Programme in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/BN), on 28, 29 and 30 May 2024 at the BRAVIA HOTEL in Niamey. This review, which took place in a context of increasing climate change and complex environmental challenges, provided an opportunity to take stock of the results achieved, in progress and those not started, as well as the obstacles encountered since the launch of the Programme in 2019.
As a reminder, PIDACC/BN adequately responds to the needs of safeguarding the Niger River and strengthening the resilience of the basin's populations and ecosystems to climate change for more than 160 million inhabitants of the nine countries of the Niger Basin, namely: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire,  Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad. With a total cost of US$218 million for its nine national components and the regional component, PIDACC/BN is financed by the African Development Bank (AfDB) through the African Development Fund, the Green Climate Fund, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Strategic Climate Fund (FSC/CIF),  the governments of the nine countries, the NBA, as well as the beneficiary populations.

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The Regional Adaptation to Change Fund (FRACC) and the payment mechanism for Environmental Services (PES) in the Niger Basin constitute an endogenous, innovative, autonomous and sustainable means which will be supplied by several sources to finance the PES.

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The Integrated Program for Agricultural Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/BN) aims to contribute to improving the living conditions of populations and their resilience to the effects of climate change through sustainable management natural resources…

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Below is the Editorial taken from the 2nd issue of the PIDACC Infos magazine for the month of September 2023. The post signed by the Executive Secretary of the Niger Basin Authority (ABN), Mr. Adderahim Hamid Birème, highlights the progress of program in a context marked by various challenges. He also welcomes the sub-projects launched by the components, testifying to a “collective awareness” of the need for sustainable management of natural resources.
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''The Information Magazine of the Integrated Program for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change (PIDACC INFOS) for the month of September 2023 is available in French and English versions.
In the coming days, we will publish the content to discover the main projects implemented and their impacts. We will also go to the heart of the different country components and their initiatives which are changing the face of our Basin.''
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