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1 OECD conference CENTRE 8-10 April 2013 UEMOA RPCA meeting of the FOOD CRISIS PREVENTION NETWORK Organised by the Secretariat of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SWAC/OECD) under the auspices of the Commissions of ECOWAS and UEMOA summary RECORD Under the patronage of the ECOWAS and UEMOA Commissions and with the contribution of the Secretariats of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) and the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC/OECD), the restricted meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) took place on 8-10 April 2013 at the OECD headquarters in Paris. The discussion covered the following three topics: The 2012/13 agricultural campaign and the food and nutritional situation in the Sahel and West Africa. The implementation of the Global Alliance for Resilience (AGIR) Sahel and West Africa. RPCA communication materials (during a restricted meeting).

2 1THE 2012/13 AGRICULTURAL CAMPAIGN AND EVALUATION OF THE FOOD AND NUTRIONAL SITUATION The RPCA meeting offered the opportunity to food security actors in the Sahel and West Africa region to assess the food and nutrional situation, to bring to the attention of national and international decision makers the current major challenges, and to propose response actions. Harvests have been generally good in the Sahel and West Africa. However, RPCA members highlighted the deterioration of the humanitarian situation and the alarming outlook in the northern parts of Mali and in neighbouring countries, resulting from the ongoing crisis. In addition to the northern regions of Mali, certain areas of Burkina Faso (Seno) and Niger (Tillabéri and Téra) require emergency action. Recommendations were proposed in the Final Communiqué ( Participants also discussed the organisation of the 29 th Annual Meeting of the RPCA to be held on November 2013, as part of the Sahel and West Africa Week scheduled on November 2013 in Côte d Ivoire. Indicators and methodolocial tools to measure resilience will constitute the central theme of the RPCA meeting. Classification of food insecurity, March 2013 minimal under pressure crisis emergency zone lacking data/evidence not analysed Source: Regional Analysis Unit Harmonised Framework 2 THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RESILIENCE (AGIR) SAHEL AND WEST AFRICA Adoption of the Regional Roadmap The meeting offered an opportunity to discuss and adopt the AGIR Sahel and West Africa Regional Roadmap. The Alliance was officially launched on 6 December 2012 in Ouagadougou at the Sahel and West Africa Week. The adoption of the Roadmap is the result of a process that started in In November 2012, a draft roadmap was presented and discussed at a meeting organised by the SWAC Secretariat. This meeting led to a consensus on several points, including: The root causes of recurrent food and nutritional crises in the region; A common definition of resilience and priority target groups; The overall and specific objectives of the Alliance. At the official launching ceremony of the Alliance, a Joint Statement was adopted. and Stakeholders unanimously agreed to create a Restricted Working Group responsible for finalising the Roadmap. 2 rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april 2013 Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD)

3 AGIR roadmap_en.indd 1 03-May :39:00 AM Between February and March 2013, facilitated by the SWAC Secretariat, the Restricted Working Group made the following recommendations to improve the Roadmap: Although special attention must be given to the Sahelian band which is exposed to structural food crises and chronic malnutrition, the Alliance should be anchored in all 17 member countries of ECOWAS, UEMOA and CILSS; The following elements should be strengthened: (i) gender; (ii) the connection between demographics and food issues; (iii) the regional food security and nutritional agenda as well as regional strategies, policies and initiatives regarding resilience building (e.g. the ECOWAS Zero Hunger strategy, etc.); Specific objectives should be strengthened, in particular as regards nutritional targets; AGIR GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR RESILIENCE AGIR SAHEL AND WEST AFRICA RPCA UEMOA REGIONAL ROADMAP ADOPTED ON 9 APRIL 2013 RPCA Adoption Ceremony of the AGIR Regional Roadmap on 9 April 2013, Paris. The value added of the Alliance needs to be further clarified and monitoring and evaluation indicators should be defined. The members of the Restricted Working Group discussed and validated these suggestions at the Senior Experts Group of the Alliance held on 8 April Following the meeting, all stakeholders of the Alliance reached a final consensus and adopted the regional Roadmap ( swac/publications/agir%20roadmap_en_final.pdf). This Roadmap presents the broad regional orientations, which should be applied at country level as per the subsidiarity principle, based on existing policies and programmes in national resilience priorities and accompanied by operational frameworks for financing, implementation, monitoring and evaluation. Organisation of inclusive national consultations Proposals regarding the organisation of inclusive consultations at the national level were presented by the three West African regional organisations (ECOWAS, UEMOA and CILSS). Suggestions included: The creation of a Technical Unit (TU) of the Alliance with the objective of supporting countries in conducting these consultations. Hosted by the CILSS Executive Secretariat, the unit will be placed under the direction and oversight of ECOWAS and UEMOA; Accountability of countries for carrying out consultations, relying on national expertise, such as National Agricultural Investment Programme teams and other key actors. Local experts should be tasked with mapping out existing resilience projects and programmes to serve as a basis for discussion at national workshops. These should aim to identify resilience priorities and to define the operational and financial frameworks for implementation and monitoring and evaluation. The consultations should be designed and conducted so as to directly involve all ministerial departments involved in building resilience (agriculture, livestock, fisheries, forestry, environment, health, education, social affairs, water-sanitation-hygiene, family planning, disaster risk reduction, etc.) as well as agricultural producers organisations, private sector actors and civil society. The Technical Unit will help develop methodological tools for analysing resilience intiatives, projects and programmes; The organisation of a regional conference to examine the results obtained from the inclusive consultations and the lessons learnt. Coordination among technical and financial partners for implementing the Alliance The international partners of the Alliance met on 9 April 2013 to reflect on the possible coordination mechanisms within the international community, in accordance with the expectations expressed in the regional roadmap. The meeting resulted in the creation of a Co-ordination Platform of Technical and Financial Partners (PTFP/AGIR). This platform is composed of countries and organisations that participated in the 9 April 2013 meeting but is also open to other partners who wish to contribute to the implementation of the Alliance. This international coordination mechanism will be tasked with: (i) maintaining political engagement, (ii) providing a permanent political interface between the international community and Sahelian and West African decision makers; (iii) facilitating the coordination and the definition of common positions among all stakeholders of the Alliance. Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD) rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april

4 3 rpca COMMUNICATION tools Representatives of ECOWAS, UEMOA, CILSS, OCHA, WFP, FEWS NET and the SWAC Secretariat participated in the restricted meeting on communication materials of the RPCA. The discussions covered (i) the revamping of the RPCA website; (ii) the new visual identity and communication kits, and (iii) the RPCA newsletter. The RPCA website Website design and hosting. The RPCA website has been completely revamped and simplified as certain dynamic features were not regularly updated. The website is hosted by the SWAC Secretariat within the OECD website. The RPCA website keeps the domain name in order to ensure the institutional neutrality of the Network. The RPCA newsletter Participants agreed to launch a newsletter of the network called RPCA News and composed of various sections. The monitoring section will be similar to the content of the former Food Security Information Note (NISA). The workflow of this monitoring section of RPCA News was discussed in detail. Two alternatives were proposed: (i) to produce a note highlighting the different pieces of information provided by the various information providers, (ii) to provide a consensual analysis of the food situation based on the work of the different actors working on food and nutritional security (similar to the NISA approach). The approach promoting a consensual analysis for the monitoring section, identical to that of NISA, was chosen. Website updating and management: The website is jointly managed by the CILSS Executive Secretariat and the SWAC Secretariat. This requires training for a dedicated member of the CILSS Executive Secretariat. CILSS committed to identify a communication expert who will dedicate at least 50% of his/her time to the management of this website in order to ensure regular updating and build on the lessons learnt from past experiences and to avoid repeating the situation of the past years where the person in charge could not allocate sufficient time to this task due to other responsibilities. New visual identity and communication tools The RPCA logo. A new RPCA logo was approved. RPCA and AGIR flyers. Comments were added to the ones already made during the online consultation. The new visual identity will be applied to the Network s website as well as to all other communication products which are designed with the same look-and-feel, including the cover sleeve of the promotion kits. Additional communication materials, such as products about ongoing resilience projects, could be included in the kits. As with the NISA, the CILSS Executive Secretariat will be in charge of co-ordinating the production of the monitoring section. The drafting process will follow the same steps: (i) a first draft will be produced by CILSS and submitted for comments to core Network Members; (ii) each institution will designate a focal point charged with co-ordinating the contributions and submitting them on time (see workflow schedule). The responsibility for coordinating the monitoring section requires a firm commitment from CILSS and the creation of a professional group charged with its production and the management of the finalisation process within the defined timeframe. The CILSS agreed to take on all the necessary steps to fulfill this responsibility, with the support from the FEWS-NET technical advisor on food security. The other sections of the RPCA News could provide additional information regarding the food situation and promote the actions of RPCA Members. The RPCA News will be published every two months. The first issue is expected to be published in the first half of May CILSS committed to provide a draft version 4 rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april 2013 Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD)

5 REGION f all, as the rrible sment revealed ion s food d to join forces o-ordination of r to the work of sed in hes. Food. in the past. The 0s; almost half kets have an itutional f people s. of severe food malnutrition uring the duction, and heir access to.) are some of rity. t Africa can he fight against common rs, are evidence MPAIGN hymet/cilss of the monitoring section by 20 April In addition, the production of the RPCA Policy Note will continue. The policy note summarises the principal conclusions of the RPCA Annual Meeting held in December. It should be DID the basis YOU of KNOW? action for decision-making bodies (UEMOA High-level Committee on Food Security; ECOWAS Technical West Africa might Committee be THE BEST PREPARED Specialised REGION to respond in to agriculture, and mitigate the impact of food crises. Pioneering regional co-operation in Africa, it is environment endowed and with water a consultation resources; and co-ordination and framework the CILSS adopted Council in 1984 (RPCA), and a regional system for the prevention and management of crises of Ministers), (PREGEC). government representatives, ministers, The CILSS/AGRHYMET Regional Centre and ACMAD are the region s agro- members of parliament, development partners, etc. meteorological centres internationally reputed for their excellence. Thanks to the RPCA platform, West Africa is now an OFFICIAL OBSERVER OF THE G20 Working Group on Development. The region participates in all The participants also exchanged views on the preparatory meetings, representing African interests alongside South Africa. implementation of the communication strategy of the USEFUL LINKS RPCA. The tools developed require the engagement of ACMAD: all Network Afrique Members Verte: as well as sufficient and consistent AGRHYMET: funding. For CILSS: this reason, participants have agreed CIRAD: to organise a meeting to examine the the question in ECOWAS/ECOAGRIS: FAO/GIEWS: detail and the take necessary decisions. This restricted FEWS NET: consultation IFAD: process will involve ECOWAS and UEMOA IFPRI: as well as SMART: the two facilitators of the RPCA (the CILSS SWAC: and SWAC UEMOA: Secretariats). The meeting will also serve as UNOCHA - West and Central Africa: an opportunity UNICEF - West to and establish Central Africa: a better division of tasks and WAMIS-NET: responsibilities, West Africa Gateway: as well as to discuss ways to strengthen WFP: the influence of the Network in the decision-making WMO: process. Last update: May 2013 CILSS Address CILSS Executive Secretariat 03 BP 7049 Ouagadougou 03 Burkina Faso Phone /26 cilss.se@cilss.bf mahalmoudou.hamadoun@cilss.bf SAHEL AND Club WEST AFRICA Secretariat SWAC Address SWAC/OECD 2, rue André Pascal F Paris, Cedex 16 Phone +33 (0) swac.contact@oecd.org sibirijean.zoundi@oecd.org THE FOOD CRISIS PREVENTION NETWORK ANALYSE INFORM PREVENT RPCA he Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) is an INTERNATIONAL TCONSULTATION AND CO-ORDINATION PLATFORM drawing on the political leadership of the ECOWAS and UEMOA Commissions. Its technical management is co-ordinated by CILSS, with the support of the Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat. Created in 1984, the work of the RPCA is based on CONSULTATION, DIALOGUE AND ANALYSIS. It reinforces the coherence and effectiveness of interventions through the implementation of the Charter for Food Crisis Prevention and Management. The Network brings together the three West African regional organisations (ECOWAS, UEMOA, CILSS), regional and international information systems, bi- and multilateral co-operation agencies, humanitarian organisations and international NGOs, as well as agricultural professional associations, the private sector and civil society. UEMOA ANNEX 1. FOCAL points 27-May :13:29 AM Organisation/Institution Family name/first name Title CILSS Mahalmoudou Hamadoun Coordinator PRA/SA-LCD-POP DEV mahalmoudou.hamadoun@cilss.bf ECOWAS Alain Sy Traoré Interim Director of agriculture syalaintraore@yahoo.fr FAO Jean Senahoun Food security expert Jean.Senahoun@fao.org FEWS NET Ibrahim Laouali Regional technical Coordinator librahim@fews.net SWAC/OECD Léonidas Hitimana Programme Officer leonidas.hitimana@oecd.org UEMOA Seyni Hamadou Interim Director of agriculture shamadou@uemoa.int UNOCHA Manuela Gonzalez gonzalez8@un.org USAID Jorge Oliveira Food security Advisor joliveira@usaid.gov WFP Anne-Claire Mouilliez Regional Advisor for food security analysis anne-claire.mouilliez@wfp.org Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD) rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april

6 ANNEX 2. WORKFLOW PLAN AND PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Workflow for the monitoring section Action Responsible Deadline Step 1 Share first draft with focal points CILSS The 20 th of the month of publication Step 2 Comments and suggestions RPCA focal points The 25 th of the month of publication Step 3 Finalise the note and transmit to SWAC/CILSS for CILSS The 27 th of the month of publication translation and integration it into the final publication Step 4 Share a draft version of the RPCA News for final Last minutes comments to be The 5 th of the month of publication comments. submitted within 24 hours Step 5 Distribution, updating the RPCA website, etc. SWAC/CILSS The 6 th of the month of publication Publication Schedule Month January March May July September November Sources Conclusions of the RPCA meeting Conclusions of the March PREGEC meeting. Assist in preparation of the restricted RPCA meeting in April Conclusions of the restricted RPCA meeting Conclusions of the June PREGEC meeting Conclusions of the September PREGEC meeting Conclusions of the November PREGEC meeting. Assist in preparation of the RPCA annual meeting in December NB. The first draft of the monitoring section must be circulated by the 20 th of the month and the publication should be finalised by the 6 th of the following month. These dates are subject to change based on weekends and public holidays. ANNEX 3. LIST of PARTICIPANTS COUNTRIES Charles BOIS D ENGHIEN Directeur Général Adjoint, Coopération au Développement et Aide humanitaire Belgium Isabelle WITTOEK Attaché de la Coopération Internationale, Délégation Permanente auprès de l OCDE à Paris Belgium Olivier VIGAN Secrétaire général, Ministère de l Agriculture, de l Elevage et de la Pêche Benin Mahama ZOUNGRANA Ministre de l agriculture et de la sécurité alimentaire, Ministère de l agriculture et de la sécurité alimentaire Burkina Faso Saga Pascal Yves ILBOUDO Secrétaire permanent CPSA, Ministère de l agriculture et de la sécurité alimentaire Burkina Faso Stéphane ROBERGE Premier Secrétaire (Coopération), Ambassade du Canada au Burkina Faso Canada Aboubacar TRAORE Ambassade de la Côte d Ivoire à Paris Côte d Ivoire Philippe BEYRIES Chef du pôle sécurité alimentaire, Biens publics mondiaux, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes France Jean-Marc CHATAIGNER Directeur Général Adjoint, DGMDP, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes France Anne-Laure JEANVOINE Rédactrice questions humanitaires, résilience, Biens publics mondiaux, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes France Emmanuel LEBRUN-DAMIENS Sous-Direction santé, sécurité alimentaire et développement humain, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes France Mme Laura RECUERO VIRTO Responsable Pôle Analyse économique de la mondialisation, Ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes France Daniel-Yves TAUPENAS Conseiller, Représentation permanente de la France auprès de l OCDE France Kabèlé SOUMAH Attaché d ambassade, Ambassade de Guinée à Paris Guinea Yoko KAMADA Policy Analyst, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) France Office Japan Chieko SHINDO Project Officer, JICA France Office Japan Gaoussou DIARRAH Conseiller Economique, Ambassade du Mali à Paris Mali Massa TOUNKARA Chargé de Mission à la Cellule Économique, Ambassade du Mali à Paris Mali Mohamed OULD AHMED AIDA Secrétaire général, Ministère du développement rural Mauritania Amadou Allahoury DIALLO Haut Commissaire à l Initiative 3N, Présidence de la République du Niger Niger Hassane MAMOUDOU Conseiller technique du Haut-Commissaire, Initiative 3N, Présidence de la République du Niger Niger Adebayo ADEYEMI Senior Counsellor, Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Paris Nigeria Peter SCHUURMAN Senior Policy Coordinator, Permanent Delegation of the Netherlands to the OECD Netherlands Elena BOLOTNIKOVA Russia s G20 Expert Council Russia Sergey KISELEV Director, Eurasian Center on Food Security Russia 6 rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april 2013 Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD)

7 Maimouna LO GUEYE Secrétaire Générale, Ministère de l Agriculture et de l Equipement rural Senegal Sergio COLINA Conseiller technique de coopération régionale, AECID Spain Ana-Regina Segura MARTINEZ Head of Rural Dev., Food Security and Nutrition Unit Spain enrik RUNDQUIST Permanent Delegation of Sweden to the OECD in Paris Sweden Karl SCHULER Chargé de Programme Développement Rural, Division Afrique de l Ouest DDC, DFAE Switzerland HAli-TILOH SOLITOKE Deuxième Secrétaire, Ambassade du Togo à Paris Togo Gerard HOWE Head of Cabinet and Strategy Team, Africa Directorate, DFID United Kingdom Frances MILSOM Attachée agricole et à l environnement United Kingdom Thomas BECK Senior Policy Advisor, Policy, Planning and Learning Bureau, USAID United States Candace BUZZARD Director, Agriculture, Environment and Trade Office, West Africa Region, USAID Ghana United States Christophe TOCCO Deputy Regional Director, USAID Sénégal United States ORGANISATIONS OF THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM Guy EVERS Principal Adviser, Investment Centre Division, Technical Cooperation Department FAO Philippe CORI Directeur, Fonds des Nations Unies pour l enfance, Belgique UNICEF Manuel FONTAINE Directeur régional de l Afrique de l Ouest, Fonds des Nations Unies pour l enfance (Sénégal) UNICEF Robert PIPER Regional Humanitarian Coordinator for the Sahel (Senegal) UNOCHA Mercy MANYALA Humanitarian Affairs Officer, ROWCA (Senegal) UNOCHA Félix B.F. GOMEZ Directeur régional adjoint pour l Afrique de l Ouest (Sénégal) WFP Naouar LABIDI Conseillère régionale en analyse de la sécurité alimentaire, Bureau régional pour l Afrique de l Ouest (Sénégal) WFP élix HOUNTON Administrateur de Programme, Bureau Régional pour l Afrique (Suisse) WMO REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS Janvier K. LITSE Directeur Département régional Afrique de l Ouest, Banque africaine de développement (Tunisie) AfDB Hatem FELLAH Agronome Directeur Dept régional Afrique de l Ouest (Tunisie) AfDB Papa Lamine DIOP Adjoint au Directeur de la Recherche et de la Statistique (Sénégal) BCEAO Manuela CHIAPPARINO Senior Operations Officer. GF Disaster Reduction and Recovery, The World Bank Belgium World Bank Vera SONGWE Country Director for Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde World Bank EUROPEAN UNION Andris PIEBALGS European Commissioner for Development Commission Zoltan AGAI Head of Sector - Regional Programmes & EPA Support, EuropeAid Commission Pierre AMILHAT Directeur, Direction générale du Développement et Coopération - EuropeAid Commission Jean-Louis DE BROUWER Director for Humanitarian and Civil Protection Operations, ECHO Commission Jan EIJKENAAR T/A Resilience & AGIR, Sahel and West Africa, DG Aide humanitaire et Protection civile, ECHO Delegation Senegal Jean-Pierre HALKIN Chef d Unité, sécurité alimentaire, Nutrition, agriculture durable, DG DEVCO - EuropeAid Commission Patrick ILLING Policy Officer, Food Security, Rural Development, Nutrition, DG DEVCO - EuropeAid Commission Céline LHOSTE Chargé du programme régional, Afrique de l Ouest Commission Irchad RAZAALY Member of the Cabinet of Commissioner Piebalgs - Développement Commission Maria-Francesca SPATOLISANO Ambassador, Permanent Delegation of EU to the OECD and UNESCO Delegation France Philippe THOMAS Chef, Section crises alimentaires-résilience, DG DEVCO - EuropeAid Commission Daniel WEISS International Aid Officer for Nigeria and AGIR, DG Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, ECHO Commission Fabien TONDEL Food Security Policy Officer, Food Security Programme ECDPM ORGANISATIONS / RESEARCH INSTITUTES Mbene Dieye FAYE Gestionnaire Programme politiques, marchés et commerce CORAF/WECARD Senegal Ismael FOFANA Deputy Director, Western and Central Africa Office IFPRI Senegal PRODUCER ORGANISATIONS, NGO, PRIVATE SECTOR Honourable Khady FALL TALL Présidente régionale AFAO-WAWA Senegal Gilles MERSADIER Coordinateur Afrique Verte France Etienne DU VACHAT Food Security Advocacy Officer CONCORD France Vanessa MAKOLA Responsable thématique santé communautaire et nutrition Croix-Rouge Belgium Simone ZOUNDI KAFANDO Présidente, Coordonnatrice du Réseau INTERFACE FIAB Burkina Faso Al Hassan CISSE Oxfam International Food Security Advocacy Coordinator OXFAM GB Senegal Mbacké NIANG Directeur régional des programmes OXFAM GB Senegal Kalilou SYLLA Secrétaire exécutif ROPPA Burkina Faso Mamadou CISSOKHO Président d honneur, ASPRODEB ROPPA Senegal Salifou OUEDRAOGO Directeur Afrique de l Ouest, Tchad/Cameroun SOS Sahel Afrique de l Ouest Burkina Faso Douglas R. BROWN Director of Agriculture and Food Security, Food and Livelihood Security Cluster World Vision International Canada Sahel and West Africa Club Secretariat (SwAc/OecD) rpca restricted meeting, 8-10 april

8 INFORMATION SYSTeMS Laouali IBRAHIM Coordinateur technique régional FEWS NET Niger Salif SOW Conseiller technique régional auprès du CILSS (CH/IPC et communication) FEWS NET Burkina Faso Felix LEE Deputy Chief-of-Party FEWS NET United States Sahel and West African Intergovernmental Organisations Lapodini Marc ATOUGA Commissaire, agriculture, environnement et ressources en eau CEDEAO Nigeria Yaya SOW Ambassadeur auprès de l UE et du groupe ACP CEDEAO Belgium Daniel EKLU Directeur des affaires humanitaires CEDEAO Nigeria Pierre HAAS Assistant technique AFD, sécurité alimentaire, agriculture CEDEAO Nigeria Mahalmoudou HAMADOUN Coordonnateur PRA/SA-LCD-POP DEV CILSS Burkina Faso Amadou Mactar KONATE Expert sécurité alimentaire, PREGEC CILSS Burkina Faso Abdallah SAMBA Chef Division sécurité alimentaire et Accès aux marchés CILSS-AGRHYMET Niger Ibrahima DIEME Commissaire, sécurité alimentaire, agriculture, mines et environnement UEMOA Burkina Faso Seyni HAMADOU Directeur par intérim en charge de l agriculture UEMOA Burkina Faso SAHEL AND WEST AFRICA CLUB François-Xavier DE DONNEA Président du CSAO, Ministre d Etat, Président Commission des Relations extérieures, Chambre des Représentants de Belgique T. Jean de Dieu SOMDA Special Representative to the SWAC President Laurent BOSSARD Director of the SWAC/OECD Secretariat Sibiri Jean ZOUNDI Principal Administrator Léonidas HITIMANA Programme Officer Coralie DAVID Young professional Julia WANJIRU Communication Officer OTHER ORGANISATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Roy A. STACY Senior Advisor FEWS-Net El Hadj Dramane COULIBALY Expert-conseil, sécurité alimentaire Roger BLEIN Bureau ISSALA Nanayaa APPENTENG Postgraduate Student, Sciences Po SAHEL AND Club WEST AFRICA Secretariat Contacts: sibirijean.zoundi@oecd.org leonidas.hitimana@oecd.org Mailing Address SWAC/OECD 2, rue André Pascal F Paris, Cedex 16 Tel +33 (0) Fax +33 (0) swac.contact@oecd.org