In her opening address at the coconut hotel in Accra, the Acting Executive Director of the Water Resources Commission Mrs.Adwoa Painntsil said, the project which is financed by the Adaptation Fund and implemented by WMO, is to reduce vulnerability and also increase adaptive ways in which communities will respond to the climate change in some west Africa countries such as in Burkina , Faso, Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali and Togo.
To the Acting Executive Director, WMO is currently participating in Adaptation Fund Portfolio Monitoring Mission to Integrating Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Change Adaptation in the Volta Basin.
The Acting Executive Director further explains that the mission seeks to gather experience, and lessons learned about the effectiveness of the transboundary implementation of integrated flood and drought management strategies.
The Adaptation Fund Delegation visited some countries in the ECOWAS region such as Cotonou, Benin to hold consultations with the bodies responsible in the sector, and they also conducted community visitation to Tabota Village in the Northern part of Benin where the project was successfully implemented.
Mrs. Adwoa Painntsil, Acting Executive Director of the Water Resources Commission said the Adaptation Fund and VFDM project partners which comprise the WMO, Volta Basin Authority and Global Water Partnership- West Africa subsequently conducted a stakeholders consultation in the national capital of Cote d’lvoire which is Abidjan.
The state Institutions which were consulted included the hydrological service., meteorological service, environmental and climate change, and civil protection.
The Executive Director further said plans are underway in Ghana for national state Institutions to have community visitations