Comité permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte versus la Sécheresse dans le Sahel

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Map of the member states of the CILSS

The Comité Permanent Inter Etats de lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (“Standing Intergovernmental Committee to Combat Drought in the Sahel”), or CILSS for short , is an intergovernmental organization to which the countries of the Sahel region belong.

The CILSS was founded in 1973 in the face of the drought and famine in the Sahel region to mobilize the people of the Sahel countries as well as the international community for measures in the fields of agriculture, water management, the environment, transport and communication. In 1995, it focused its activities primarily on the areas of food security and the management of natural resources.

The managing director from 2001 was the former Gambian Agriculture Minister Musa Mbenga , whose second three-year term expired in 2007. After that, Alhousseïni Bretaudeau from Mali headed this organization for 6 years. The Executive Secretary of CILSS has been Djimé Adoum from Chad since July 26, 2013.

The main office ( secrétariat exécutif ) is in Ouagadougou , the agro-hydrometric center Régional AGRHYMET in Niamey and the Sahel Institute in Bamako .

Member States

literature

  • Ourbak T., Bilgo A .: Climate Change Knowledge Platforms Targeted at West Africa: A Review and a Focus on the New CILSS Platform. In: Leal Filho W. (Ed.): Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation. Springer 2015, doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-642-38670-1_13 ( free full text ).
  • Thomas Hammer: Departure in the Sahel. Case studies on sustainable rural development . Lit, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-8258-3416-6 , chap. 10: Sustainable resource management, land use planning and food security as priorities in combating desertification? The example of the CILSS, p. 269-296 .
  • Papa Syr Diagne: L'action des Etats du CILSS contre Ia sécheresse . In: Bernard Bret (ed.): Les hommes face aux sécheresses. Nordeste brésil, sahel africain . Institut des Hautes Études de l'Amérique Latine (IHEAL), Université de Paris, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-86818-025-6 , p. 347-356 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CILSS website (French / English)
  2. ↑ Institut du Sahel (French)