Burkina Faso: Preparatory workshop on 19 and 20 June

News of 02/06/2025

SPONG is a national platform that brings together more than 200 national and international NGOs and development associations, foundations, research and training centres, youth movements and thematic networks.
The NGO APIL is a development organisation that focuses primarily on training farmers to provide small family farms with technical and organisational innovations that guarantee a sustainable improvement in their living conditions.
CNABio is a platform in Burkina Faso that brings together around a hundred players, all committed to promoting agro-ecology and organic farming. CNABio is behind the first organic certification label in Burkina Faso.
Tree Aid is an international NGO working with people in arid areas of Africa to combat poverty and the effects of the climate crisis by planting trees, improving incomes and restoring and protecting land.

This workshop is being organised to facilitate consultation between civil society organisations, local authorities and public and private institutions in Burkina Faso on specific issues, and to develop collaborative advocacy aimed at national and international decision-makers on the following themes:

• Supporting local authorities in managing their territory in anticipation of drought risks;
• And agro-ecological transformation of farming systems to improve drought resilience.

The two-day workshop programme will be structured around thematic presentations, working groups (sub-group discussions on existing actions, challenges and solutions) and recommendations and advocacy messages.

Programme de l’atelier du jeudi 19 juin

08h30 – 09h00 Welcoming participants

09h00 – 10h00 Welcome and presentation of the day’s proceedings, objectives and expected results

10h00 – 10h30 Coffee break

10h30 – 11h00 Communication 1 :  Presentation of the Désertif’actions Summit

11h00 – 12h00 Communication 2 : The main conclusions of COP 16 (challenges and opportunities) Framework of definitions and concepts relating to drought

12h00 – 13h00 Communication 3 : Identifying the levers of regional resilience to drought problems

13h00 – 14h00 Communication 4 : Issues and challenges of the agro-ecological transition towards a paradigm shift in agriculture

14h00 – 15h00 Lunch break

15h00 – 17h00 Group work

1 7h00 End of the first day of workshops

Programme de l’atelier du vendredi 20 juin

08h30 – 09h00 Report on Day 1

09h00 – 10h00 Group work

10h00 – 10h30 Coffee break

10h30 – 12h00 Feedback from group work

12h00 End of workshop