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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“2023 will be a pivotal year for PIDACC in Benin” WOROU WARA Adamou, National Coordinator of PIDACC/NB in Benin
Strengthening the resilience of the ecosystems and populations affected by climate change in the Niger River Basin in Benin is the objective of the Program Integrated for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger River Basin. More than two years after its official launch by the African Development Bank, the Government of Benin and the Niger Basin Authority, we went to meet the National Manager of the program in Benin.

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The pressures exerted on the soils and on the vegetation have had negative consequences on the productivity of the soils, which has greatly decreased, reaching worrying proportions in the Niger basin and more particularly in the Benin portion. The main causes of this situation are essentially due to climatic variations aggravated by the systems of production and exploitation of the natural resources with little concern of their regeneration (uncontrolled clearing, stump removal, overexploitation of the soils, excessive use of the chemical fertilizers, etc.).

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