To ensure effective implementation of the program in Benin, the Country Water Partnership (CWP) of Benin has developed an annual work plan for the year 2021 (AWP 2021) which provides for monthly and quarterly coordination meetings as part of the monitoring and evaluation of the program. The coordination meetings will make it possible to exchange on the progress of activities, share important information related to the implementation of program activities, and ensure the operational follow-up of program implementation.
The participants in the session are representatives of the main technical partners (Water directorate, Climate and Environment Fund-FNEC, Climate and environment directorate-DGEC) supporting the program implementation and members of the program management unit within CWP -Benin. In total, the session was attended by eight participants
Participants discussed the status of the ongoing legislative and regulatory processes (NAP process, CDN review, National IWRM Action Plan 3 preparation, National Environment legal framework’s review) in the water, environment and climate change sectors; and the development of a roadmap for activities to be carried out in the first half of 2021 to support ongoing legislative and regulatory processes for integrating the gender transformative approach.
The recommendations include:
- Ensuring the evaluation of PANGIRE (IWRM Plan) 2, takes into account the gender transformative approach;
- Strengthening the capacities of the focal points on the gender transformative approach;
- Meeting the Secretaries General of the sectoral Ministries concerned by the program, to present to them the program activities and the main actions expected from their respective ministerial departments;
- Making an inventory of similar initiatives in progress and a mapping of the actors involved for a better synergy with relevant actions.
