Promoting Climate-Smart Agriculture and Capacity Building in Universities Across Africa

WASCAL, a collaborative effort funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, focuses on enhancing resilience to climate change in West Africa. Offering seminars, short courses, and capacity building programs in various countries, WASCAL emphasizes adaptation to climate change and sustainable land management practices. Specific modules cover integrated water resource management, gender considerations, and restoration of degraded lands. These initiatives aim to equip stakeholders with knowledge and skills to address climate challenges in agriculture and beyond.

• Climate-smart agriculture
• Capacity building
• Climate change adaptation
• Sustainable land management
• WASCAL

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1. Development of Climate Smart Agriculture and Climate Information System Relevant Curricula for Staff, Students and other stakeholders in Universities in Africa Professor KONE Daouda Director WASCAL Capacity Building Department July 12-15th2022 1

2. West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use Created at 2009 Schools established at 2012 Endorsed by ECOWAS in 2014 WASCAL is a large-scale Education, Research- focused and Climate Service Centre designed to help tackle this challenge and thereby enhance the resilience of human and environmental systems to climate change Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), WASCAL is implemented in a collaborative effort by 11 West African countries and German partners.

3. Services delivering Seminars Short Course Training (SCT) SHORT COURSES Training of trainier of 9 countries of ABN (Niger Basin Authority) 3

4. Services delivering CAPACITY BUILDING OF TRAINERS ON ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE 9 COUNTRIES OF NIGER BASIN Module 1 : (GIRE) Integrated Management of Water Resources24 Benin , Burkina Faso, Tchad Cameroun, C te d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria Module 2 : Analyse of activities related to agriculture, livestock production, fishering, animal and mining to climate change and developement of adaptation option Module 3 :Approaches and techniques for degraded lands, banks and forest landscapes restauration wild Module 4 : Consideration of Gender issue in project preparation and implementation 4

5. Services delivering CAPACITY BUILDING OF TRAINERS ON ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE 9 COUNTRIES OF NIGER BASIN Module 1 : (GIRE) Integrated Management of water resources Benin , Burkina Faso, Tchad Cameroun, C te d'Ivoire, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Nigeria Module 2 : Analyse of activities related to agriculture, livestock production, fishering, wild animal, mining to climate change and developement of adaptation option Module 3 : Approaches and techniques for lands, banks and forest landscapes restauration Module 4 : Consideration of Gender issue in project preparation and implementation degraded 5

6. CASCADE TRAINING CAPACITY BUILDING FOR ADAPTATION AND RESPONSE OF PIDACC/BN STAKEHOLDERS IN TERMS OF CLIMATE CHANGE En vert : mis en uvre par WASCAL- UAM 1 Dates et places Dates et places Module 1 Module 1- - Benin Module 2 Module 2- -Niger Module 3 Module 3- - C te d ivoire C te d ivoire Module 4 Module 4- - Ouagadougou Ouagadougou Training of Training of trainers (VC, Dean, (VC, Dean, Lecturers trainers Lecturers) ) Benin Niger List N cessit d avoir la liste des N cessit d avoir la liste des personnes former personnes former 2 3 Training of Training of trainers (VC, Dean, (VC, Dean, Lecturers trainers Lecturers) ) Cible 1: cadres techniques Cible 2 : experts des Unit s sp cialis es Beneficiaires Beneficiaires Communication du planning des formations r pliqu es par les formateurs: Tableau De Board D ploiement de la formation D ploiement de la formation Cible a connaitre Cible a connaitre 4 4 Formations des acteurs Formations des acteurs ABN ABN Formations des acteurs Formations des acteurs ABN ABN + if coaching n cessaire ABN de + if coaching n cessaire ABN de discuter avec WASCAL et UAM discuter avec WASCAL et UAM Duplication par les personnes form es, autant de fois que n cessaire pour former 4 millions de petits producteurs (trices) dans les neuf (9) pays du bassin du Niger dont 51% de femmes

7. CASCADE TRAINING FOR CSA AND CIS IN UNERSITIES CURRICULA 1 Training of Training of trainers (VC, Dean, (VC, Dean, Lecturers trainers Lecturers) ) stakeholders Training modules Training modules developed developed 2 3 Training of Training of trainers (VC, Dean, (VC, Dean, Lecturers trainers Lecturers) ) Target 2 : extension service- practionners Target 1: VC Deans, Lecturers Beneficiaries Beneficiaries Communication use partnership Upscaling Upscaling- -dissemination dissemination 4 4 Implementation Implementationof short courses short courses of Training of Training of learners ( (Bachellor Bachellor- -Master and PhD Master and PhD students students learners + if coaching + if coaching Dissemination CSA and CIS in core Universities curricula and other WASCAL countries

8. Thank you