Inades-Formation Burkina was present at the AfriFOODlinks consortium meeting held from June 19 to 23, 2023 in Kisumu, Kenya. The meeting was organized to further connect the consortium partners, to jointly review the work underway in the different cities and the results already achieved.
The AfriFOODlinks project aims to ” Transform Africa’s urban food environments by strengthening links between food system stakeholders in African and European cities “. More than 65 towns and 26 organizations are involved. This project is funded by the European Union for a period of 4 years (December 2022 to November 2026).
The AfriFOODlinks consortium meeting in Kisumu provided a forum for mutual learning between the project’s participating towns, and laid the foundations for project monitoring and evaluation. Over the course of five days, the hundred or so participants enjoyed a wealth of experiences through various events, moments of creativity, sharing and discovery. The meeting was punctuated by panels, plenary sessions, closed-door meetings, visits to markets and supermarkets, as well as peri-urban farming and composting processing sites.
In the Burkina Faso delegation at the AfriFOODlinks consortium meeting in Kisumu, the Director of Inades-Formation Burkina was alongside representatives from the city of Ouagadougou, AFP/APME, ADEU, the Institut de Recherche en Sciences Appliquées Technologie (IRSAT) and Rikolto. At the end of the meeting, the various participants left with a better understanding of the project’s activities and concepts, and a better mutual knowledge of the partners.
Isidore DELLA, Patrice DA