IDMP training of trainers held

A training of trainers capacity building workshop was held from 25 to 29 April 2016 on "drought risk reduction in the context of Integrated Water Resources Management" with the financial and technical support of Cap-Net. The course content focused on six (6) modules on Overview of drought / occurrence of droughts, vulnerability and IWRM (Module 1), Vulnerability and impacts of droughts (Module 2), Managing the risks of drought (Module 3), Characterization of droughts, temporal and special scale, monitoring and forecasting ((Module 4), Strategic Planning in IWRM for risk management of drought (Module 5), Preparing for drought, emergency management and post drought recovery (6. Module 6).

Participants were selected taking into account five (5) considerations that include i) the professional aspects, ii) the basics on drought management / climate change issues, iii) the personal and institutional needs, the facilitation skills and the availability to replicate the training at national level. A total of 21 participants including five (5) women took part in the workshop. They are professionals from the private sector, government institutions and civil society from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and some regional institutions based in Ouagadougou.

The assessment made at the end of the workshop shows that 87% of the participants are satisfied of the training. They were assessed on the goals, the educational content, the quality of exchanges, the organizational and material conditions of the training.

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