A five-day training on local project management for
recipient communities of the regional sustainable land management and climate
change adaptation in the Sahel and West Africa Programme (PRGD) will run from
the 11th till 15th
August 2014, at the Ocean Bay Hotel.
In
his welcoming remarks, the governor of North Bank Region, Lamin Queen Jammeh,
said the forum was aimed at developing the capacities of rural communities,
project managers and promoters through training, using a regional approach
towards Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and climate change adaptation in the
Sahel and West Africa.
It
was due to the commitment of the respective governments, development partners
and individuals’ efforts that the PRGDT project was conceived some time back,
he said.
He
noted that individual projects under the main project are being harmonised for
training and are currently being attended to with great enthusiasm from
participants in The Gambia.
“This
training workshop, which converged all stakeholders on SLM starting from the
local communities at rural policy makers and at national levels, was a clear
manifestation that decentralization is taking place in a context of
differential but shared responsibility in the management of our scarce
resources,” Governor Jammeh added.
He
said countries through the realization of the impact of climate change,
particularly in the rural areas, is affecting livelihoods, and adaptation as a
climate response to the communities could not be overemphasized.
The
use of sound knowledge and appropriate tools to address climate change effects
and impacts as desired by the training could be one of the surest means of
improving community livelihood which would ensure environmental sustainability.
