From October 27th to November 5th, 2025, the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) will hold a series of high-priority regional meetings and workshops in N’Djamena, capital of Chad, aimed at consolidating shared water resources governance, strengthening institutional cooperation, and promoting climate resilience throughout the Niger Basin.
These meetings will be attended by participants from all nine (9) member countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Chad), as well as Technical and Financial Partners, as well as NBA Executive Secretariat staff.
Five (5) major meetings are set to convene: These successive meetings, organized in collaboration with the World Bank (WB), the African Development Bank (AfDB), the German Cooperation (GIZ), and other NBA Technical and Financial Partners, will he held as follows:
1. October 27th and 28th, 2025: Consultation meeting of the Coordinators of the National Focal Structures (NFS) on the redeployment process of the NBA Executive Secretariat staff.
This meeting aims to finalize the redeployment process of the Executive Secretariat staff, and make operational recommendations that will be reviewed by the NBA Council of Ministers at its upcoming Ordinary Session, to be held on December 5th, 2025, in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
2. October 29th and 30th, 2025: Exchange workshop between Experts from the National and Regional Coordinating Units of the Integrated Programme for Development and Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (PIDACC/NB), on the implementation of the Programme’s sub-projects and infrastructure.
This workshop will assess the Programme’s progress and, particularly, harmonize approaches to sub-project implementation and infrastructure development, with a view to significantly improving the Programme’s performance until its schedules completion, which is ending December 2027.
3. October 31st and November 1st, 2025: Regional workshop to review and validate the Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change in the Niger Basin (SRACC/NB).
The objective of the regional workshop is to have participants improve and validate the study report on the Regional Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change developed as part of the implementation of the PIDACC/NB. The SRACC/NB is an essential tool for guiding climate change adaptation interventions in the sovereign lands of the nine riparian countries of the Niger Basin.
4. November 2nd, 2025: Regional Workshop to review and validate the 2025-2035 NBA Strategic Plan.
This regional workshop will allow participants to review, amend, and validate the new 2025-2035 Strategic Plan informed by the appraisal of the prior plan (2013-2022), and the recommendations from the regional workshop to amend and validate the 2025-2033 NBA Operational Plan.
5.November 3rd – 5th, 2025: 2025 Session
The 2025 session of the Regional Steering Committee (RSC) for NBA Projects and Programmes will primarily review, amend, and validate the 2025 mid-term review of the implementation of the 2025 Annual Work Plan and Budget (AWPB), as well as NBA’s flagship projects and programmes, including PIDACC/NB, WRDSEMP-APL2A, NB-ITTAS, and the GIZ ‘’Support to NBA’’ project. Specific presentations will also focus on dam projects (Kandadji, Selingue, Taoussa, Fomi, Kainji, Jebba, and Lagdo) in the Basin, in order to assess their progress and impacts.
A Strategic Framework for Exchanges
These meetings, which will be held at the Hôtel Résidence SCI HMEC in N’Djamena, reflect the commitment of NBA Member Countries and Partners to bolster coordination, alignment, and mutual benefit in the implementation of regional programmes. They will also provide a forum for exchanges to take stock of progress, identify persistent challenges, and agree on concrete measures to improve the performance and sustainability of interventions in the Niger Basin.
