Partners

In order to better implement activities planned in three components, the project cooperates with national and international experts.

MAB National Committees coordinate activities at national level in consultation with biosphere reserves managers, universities and research centres.

The main partners of the MAB-GEF Regional programme are the Ministries of environment in charge of biosphere reserve management through the decentralized services such as CENAGREF (National Centre for the Management of Fauna Reserves) in Benin or UCFs (Units of Conservation and Fauna) in Burkina Faso.

The partnership is concluded with national and international research centres (CIRAD -Agricultural Research Centre for Developing Countries, IRD - Research Institute for Development; INRA -National Institute for Agricultural Research; ENSAR - agricultural school of Rennes; University of Abdou Moumouni of Niamey); international programmes (ECOPAS - protected ecosystems of Sahelian Africa; PAGEN - partnership for natural ecosystem management programme); NGOs (IUCN - The World Conservation Union; WWF - …).