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Fruit Fly

Activities Conducted in 2009

On 29-30 September 2009, the STDF and the ECOWAS Commission, in collaboration with the Government of Mali co-organized a two-day workshop to sensitize stakeholders on a complementary study for a Regional Action Plan to control fruit fly in West Africa.  The event gathered close to 100 participants from governments, private sector, research institutions, specialized agencies and development partners who emphasized the need for a coordinated response to control fruit fly in West Africa in line with the Paris Principles on Aid Effectiveness.  The workshop adopted the "Bamako Declaration" which outlines a common framework to implement the five-year Regional Action Plan which is costed at €25 million. The plan has the potential to become a generic operating framework that could be replicated in other African regions.  The full material, including presentations, the "Bamako Declaration", video and the final list of participants can be found in the section below.

At a separate session, donors expressed substantial appetite to (i) coordinate their assistance and work within a commonly accepted framework; and (ii) finance selected parts of the Regional Action Plan provided that the fruit fly problem appears as a priority in key strategic documents such as the ECOWAS Regional Agricultural Investment Program, National Poverty Reduction Strategies and National Agricultural Investment Programs.   To this effect, the Bamako Declaration calls for fruit fly control to be mainstreamed in ECOWAS' Agricultural Policy and to be presented at the ECOWAS Aid for Trade Review in early 2010.

STDF/ ECOWAS Donor Workshop on Fruit Fly Control in West Africa

Bamako, Mali, 29-30 September 2009

Information letters, research papers and other reports related to fruit fly

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