The Niger component of the AdaptWAP project promotes the collaboration between communities sharing the same pastoral resources and infrastructure in the W Regional Park surrounding area

An awareness-raising mission was organized in the villages of the Falmey, Kirtachi and Kouré communes with a view to establishing social agreements encouraging users to share the same water points and to put in place sustainable management rules relating to these water points.

As part of this mission, village forums were organized to jointly define the sites on which complementary pastoral infrastructure will be installed. It also made it possible to inform local populations and transhumant breeders about the projects to build pumping stations and pastoral wells with an emphasis on the consensual rules for access and management of these infrastructures as well as everyone’s responsibility in a peaceful exploitation.

At the end of the meetings, social agreements were concluded for the benefit of the relevant villages as to establish pumping stations and pastoral wells. Emphasis was placed on the preservation of natural ecosystems and the rational management of social practices such as transhumance.

Official recognition of the committees is underway and local representatives, communal authorities and transhumants were involved in the visits to the selected sites for consensual validation.