Consultation meeting with key stakeholders

The  consultation  workshop  with  Burkinabe  key  stakeholders  for  the  V1  Project  within  the   Challenge  Program  on  Water  and  Food  (CPWF)  of  the  Volta  Basin  took  place  from  14  to  15   March  2011  in  Ouagadougou.  The  meeting  room  of  the  DIST  in  CNRST  was  booked  for  the   first  day  while  in  the  second  day,  the  workshop  took  place  in  the  conference  room  of  the   National  Archives  Centre.  

The  opening  ceremony  was  made  by  Dr.  Eric  Kemp-­?Benedict  (SEI/Boston,  USA)  and  Dr.   Kabore?  Se?raphine  (INERA/Ouagadougou).  After  welcoming  all  attendees  of  the  workshop,   Dr.  Eric  has  thanked  INERA  for  its  active  participation  in  the  2nd  phase  of  the  CPWF  program   for  the  Volta  Basin  and  particularly  in  the  V1  project  “targeting  and  scaling  out  water   harvesting  interventions  for  agriculture”.  He  has  outlined  the  objectives  of  the  workshop,   that  is,  to  consult  and  discuss  among  actors  for  the  better  understanding  of  the   methodology  adopted  for  the  V1  research  project.  

The  coordinator  of  the  V1  project  in  INERA  (Dr.  Kabore?)  seconded  Dr.  Eric  and,  on  behalf  of   the  Director  of  INERA  welcomed  the  trainer  as  well  as  all  participants  who  positively   responded  to  her  invitation.  She  argued  that  the  main  objective  of  the  project  is  to  elaborate   a  reliable  tool  suitable  for  scaling  out  good  water  management  practices  and  approaches  for   food  production  in  the  Volta  Basin.  She  finally  asked  attendees  to  actively  work  for  the   success  of  the  workshop.  

After  this  ceremony,  each  attendee  was  asked  to  fully  present  himself.  This  was  followed  by   two  PowerPoint  presentations  of  an  overview  of  the  project.  Attendees  were  from  INERA,   government  institutions,  NGOs  and  development  projects  on  water  and  agriculture.