W-Arly-Pendjari Complex: the W-Benin component organizes training of trainers sessions on climate change for the benefit of stakeholders at the edges of the Pendjari park, August 2022.

A training of trainers session on climate change, adaptation, sustainable land management and risk and disaster management, has just been held in the departments of Alibori and Atacora, in the northeast of Benin.

Targeting stakeholders living in the cities bordering the WAP complex, the training session will be a key tool for the AdaptWAP project to raise public awareness of environmental preservation and adaptation to the adverse effects of climate change.

"No battle can be effectively fought without knowledge", this is how the AdaptWAP project Coordinator in Benin introduced the training sessions that took place in Kandi and Natitingou. A training that is well aligned with the strategic components of the country's Program of Action, in particular the basic social services and social protection reinforcement, as well as national-level balanced and sustainable development consolidation.

Let us remind that the "Integration of Climate Change Adaptation Measures in the Consolidated Management of the W-Arly-Pendjari Trans-boundary Complex (AdaptWAP)" project, is financed by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by the NPMU through the Ministry of the Living Environment and Sustainable Development (Benin), with the collaboration of the Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS).

It is a project that aims at strengthening the resilience of ecosystems and improving the livelihoods of populations within the W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (WAP) network of protected areas shared by Benin, Burkina and Niger, with regard to climate change, through the establishment of a Multi-Risk Early Warning System (MR-EWS) and the implementation of adaptation concrete measures for the complex.