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A national workshop on the promotion of the green economy was held on September 20, 2023 in Conakry, bringing together mainly private sector players under the aegis of Guinea's Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development and Ministry of Fisheries and the Maritime Economy.

Conakry, the capital of Guinea, hosted the official launch ceremony of the 22nd International Congress and Exhibition of the African Water and Sanitation Association (AfWAS), which will take place in Conakry from February 18 to 22, 2024.

On October 12, 13 and 14, 2023, the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Sanitation organized the Forum on IWRM implementation in Burkina Faso. The event, held under the patronage of Burkina Faso's Prime Minister, brought together over 400 participants from all levels of IWRM implementation in the country.

The Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU), in collaboration with the Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA), the Pôle Eau de Dakar, the Secretariat of the Convention for the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes and partners, is organizing a process to capitalize on innovative and successful good practices in the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) in the WAEMU region.

The annual progress reporting on GWP major achievements in West Africa is released.

Experts from Member States, Transboundary Basin Organizations and Regional Organizations work together to build capacity and define strategic and operational actions to be implemented.

This CAE, set up in May 2022 as part of the activities of the Mekrou Phase 2 Niger Project financed by the European Union through the European Union in Niger, covers the regions of Dosso and Tillabéri and the three communes of Falmey, Kirtachi and Tamou.

As part of the implementation of the Mekrou phase 2 Niger project's capacity-building plan, a training course on the manufacture and use of improved stoves was held on Thursday and Friday 6 and 7 April 2023 in Belandè. The two-day course brought together some 20 participants from Boumba, Falmey and Belandè.

Togo became a Party to the Water Convention in December 2021 and has drawn up a strategy and an implementation plan for 2022 in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders.

Volta Basin Authority together with IUCN, UN Environment Programme and Global Water Partnership West Africa launched on 25 April 2023 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso a new project called “Reversing Ecosystem and Water Degradation in the Volta River Basin or REWarD – Volta River Basin,