The workshop was organized around four main themes
and aimed to give greater visibility to research activities of WASCAL in
Benin and to stimulate discussions and exchange among researchers,
local communities and authorities on strategies of resilience to
environmental and climate changes.
The four themes of the workshop were:
- Challenges of field research in the study of populations and environmental and climate change
- Collected data documentary relationship on environmental/climate change and population dynamics in northern Benin
- Rural resilience to Climate Change in the northern Benin
- Local resilience actions versus interim results Restitution
Chaired
by the representative of the municipality of Matéri, the workshop was
opened by Adolphe Sétondji Avocanh, Coordinator of the Dassari
Watershed. During his welcome speech he stressed the importance of a
constructive exchange on climate change effects, population dynamics and
the impact of these changes on existing natural resources. He further
presented WASCAL and its objectives, its centers of interests and the
role of the involved stakeholders.
Papa Sow (WASCAL, ZEF), who
initiated the workshop, emphazised the importance of exchange between
all invited actors for a better understanding of climate change and its
impacts on natural resources in the region. He further outlied the
workshop objectives and presented his research on climate change and
population dynamics, where he and his team focus on social aspects of
climate change with a perspective from the social sciences to find
solution-oriented approaches to adverse effects related to climate and
extreme natural events.
The workshop offered an opportunity to
present and discuss the interim research results with the participants
and to submit the interim results to critical examination. The
participants gave valuable feedback and supported the research with
additional information. After two days of debate the discussions among
participants of the workshop diverged on to the possibility of an
institutional partnership, writing scientific research projects under
the umbrella of WASCAL and future collaborations between scientists,
local populations and policy makers.
Organization Committee
Adolphe Sétondji Avocanh, WASCAL Coordination Unit of the Dassari watershed in Tanguiéta.
Email: a.avocanh(at)yahoo.fr
Phones: 0022995151808 / 00229-97540798/ 00229-90987818
Jane Maureen Ngonjock
Email: janescorpy(at)gmail.com
Yasmina Adebi, Téléphone: 0022997160464
Email: yadebi(at)yahoo.fr
Scientific Committee
Papa Sow, Researcher, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (Germany)
Boubacar Barry, Director of the WASCAL Competence Center, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
William Fonta, Researcher WASCAL Competence Center Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Karen Greenough, Researcher WASCAL Competence Center Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Daniel Callo-Concha, Researcher, Center for Development Research, University of Bonn (Germany)
Kiansi Yantibossi, Executive Secretary U-AVIGREF
N´Sera Midama Parfait, Head of Ecology Service, Pendjari National Park
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