The Sahara and Sahel Observatory (OSS) and the French Development Agency (AFD) initialled a partnership agreement on Thursday 5 November 2020 in Tunis to implement a regional initiative on "water stress and climate change in North Africa. It falls within the framework of the Public and Citizen Policy Dialogue Support Facility financed by AFD. The region "is already suffering the effects of climate change with exacerbated water stress, falling agricultural yields and an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme events", an AFD press release states. This partnership will lead to the production of synthesis documents by country and on a regional scale and the publication of research documents in AFD's collections. A high-level exchange workshop will take stock of this partnership in Tunis in June 2021.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 06, 2020 15:11 UTC