Gender mainstreaming is not easy to implement because of a severe lack of practical guidance and a training limited capacity to integrate gender into climate risk management and forecasting initiatives. As a result, gender mainstreaming is often not effective in natural disaster risk management, including in the specific components of the End-to-End Early Warning Systems for Flood Forecasting (E2E-EWS-FF) and integrated flood risk management (IFRM).
This is why the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and the Global Water Partnership West Africa (GWP-WA) organize capacity building of the Volta Basin stakeholders on gender mainstreaming in the E2E-EWS-FF and IFRM. Similar training workshops were organized in the five other Volta basin riparian countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali and Togo).
This is part of the "Integrating flood and drought management and early warning for climate change adaptation in the Volta Basin" (VFDM Project) funded by the Adaptation Fund. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the Volta Basin Authority (VBA) and Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA) are implementing in consortium the project.
