Rabat, 24-26 November 2025.
The regional workshop, organized in partnership with the Moroccan Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, is taking place on November 24-26, 2025 and brings together all partners involved in the Ecosystem Natural Capital Accounting (ENCA) initiative. Focal points and representatives from the beneficiary countries - Burkina Faso, the Republic of Guinea, Morocco, Niger, Senegal and Tunisia - are joining technical and financial partners, civil society organizations, and relevant national institutions.
Mr. Nabil Hamada, representative of the OSS Executive Secretary, thanked Morocco and the partners - particularly AFD - for the support they have been giving to the project, and recalled the strategic importance of natural capital in Africa and the need to integrate it into public policies, before highlighting the alignment of the COPERNICEA project with the Global Biodiversity Framework commitments. He then outlined the vision for Phase 2, which aims to institutionalize ENCA, expand its use across key sectors, strengthen national ownership, and intensify regional cooperation through AfrikENCA.
In her opening address, Ms. Farah Bouqartacha, Acting Secretary General of the Moroccan Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, emphasized that environmental accounting has become a planning foundation that guides public decision-making. She stressed the need for ecosystem national accounting based on reliable data to ensure transparent biodiversity management - and invited participants to use this regional platform to consolidate progress and prepare the project phase 2 roadmap.
These interventions opened a closing regional workshop that plays a key role in the ENCA implementation and that makes it possible to assess progress made in each country and to define the orientations needed for an ENCA sustainable implementation in regional public policies, linking technical advances with the institutional needs expressed.
Discussions are built on interinstitutional cooperation, experience sharing, and a shared commitment to natural capital and aim at promoting the project achievements as a lever for integrating ENCA into decision-making processes. They highlight the results achieved, support the integration of ENCA into national frameworks, strengthen regional cooperation through AfrikENCA, and present the communication activities accompanying the dissemination of the tools developed.
The workshop therefore marks a new step toward consolidating the achievements, integrating ENCA, expanding its applications, and progressively building a unified African voice dedicated to natural capital.