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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The Niger River is one of the most important economic pillars of the nine member countries of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA). The Basin is populated by approximately 160 million people, 85% of whom live in rural areas where food security and social well-being depend directly on the natural resources.
Faced with the extent of the phenomena of degradation of the natural resources of the basin and to provide a solution, the Heads of State and Government of the basin have, by decision No. 2 of the 11th Summit held on Friday, January 8th, 2016 in Cotonou, Benin, decided of the create a fund called the Regional Climate Change Adaptation Fund (RCCAF) and a payments for environmental services (PES) mechanism in the Niger Basin.
Still in this dynamic of providing a coherent and sustainable response to these issues, the ABN has developed a number of the strategic documents including the Operational and Investment Plans for the Strengthening of Resilience to Climate Change of the Basin (OIP/SRC).
As part of the implementation of the (OIP/SRC), the NBA has initiated, with its technical and financial partners, namely the African Development Bank (AfDB), a Regional Program called " Program Integrated for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/NB). It is the first Program of the IPC with the establishment and operationalization of a Regional Climate Change Adaptation Fund and the Payments for Eenvironmental Services (RCCAF/PES) mechanism in the Niger Basin as a major indicator.

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