{"id":1779,"date":"2021-01-20T17:32:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2021-01-20T17:37:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T16:37:49","slug":"publication-report-alliance-sahel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/press\/publication-report-alliance-sahel\/","title":{"rendered":"What record for the Alliance Sahel after 3 years at the service of the Sahelian populations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The first results report on the action of the Sahel Alliance, at the end of its 3 years of existence, was officially published on Tuesday 19 January during a digital conference. The conference panel brought together high-level speakers, including the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, the European Union and Cooperation, and the Mauritanian Minister of Economic Affairs and Promotion of Productive Sectors.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1780 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Adrien-Haye-1-2-768x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Adrien-Haye-1-2-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Adrien-Haye-1-2-1260x704.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Adrien-Haye-1-2.jpg 1277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This first report provides an opportunity to take stock of this <strong>cooperation<\/strong>, to highlight the <strong>innovative approaches<\/strong> developed as well as the <strong>challenges<\/strong> to be met, and to show the <strong>impact<\/strong> of the projects funded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>half a million farmers and herders supported in their activities<\/li>\n<li>420,000 youths who have benefited from vocational training<\/li>\n<li>access to electricity for 550,000 people, to sanitation for 1.6 million people, to drinking water for 5.6 million people<\/li>\n<li>more than 3 million children have been vaccinated<\/li>\n<li>1,200 civil society organisations supported<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Sahel Alliance has established itself as the main platform for coordination and consultation on international development cooperation in the Sahel region and as a privileged mechanism for dialogue with the G5 Sahel and its member states&#8221; <\/em>according to H.E. Minister <strong>Arancha Gonz\u00e1lez Laya<\/strong>, President of the Alliance&#8217;s General Assembly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Sahel Alliance now brings together <strong>24 development partners<\/strong> and represents nearly <strong>\u20ac17 billion in funding<\/strong> &#8211; an amount that has doubled in 3 years. <em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>By supporting nearly 900 development projects, we are mobilizing in areas of severe insecurity as well as in job-creating regions to improve people&#8217;s lives through very concrete projects,&#8221; according to<strong> R\u00e9my Rioux<\/strong>, Chief Executive Officer of the Agence Fran\u00e7aise de D\u00e9veloppement (AFD)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More specifically for the G5 Sahel Emergency Development Programme:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Sahel Alliance and the G5 Sahel have worked to launch 18 of the 21 projects of the Emergency Development Programme (EDP) in the priority sectors of resilience, water and social cohesion<\/em>,&#8221; according to <em>H.E. <\/em>Minister <strong>Kane Ousmane Mamoudou<\/strong>, Chairman of the G5 Sahel Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The core issue of accountability<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><em>Accountability to beneficiary populations is paramount, not least because one of the manifestations of poverty lies in this sense of marginalization of the most vulnerable individuals, that is, their exclusion from the decisions that are supposed to shape their destiny\u201d, according to H.E. Mr<\/em> <strong>Tertius Zongo<\/strong>, Director of the Sahel Chair at FERDI, a research body closely involved in drafting the report.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H.E. Mr. <strong>Maman Sidikou<\/strong>, Executive Secretary of G5 Sahel, also underscores<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the need to move from declarations to actions &#8211; and to relinquish the fragmented approach of operators who give prioritize the visibility of their interventions against the achievement of tangible results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In closing the conference, HEM <strong>Angel Losada<\/strong>, European Union Special Representative for the Sahel, stressed that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Our commitment is more important than ever. The stabilisation of the region and national democratic processes, such as in Mali, must also be accompanied by development.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Alliance must now consolidate its action and demonstrate, in a tangible and visible way, increased effectiveness on the ground. The urgency of the situation, which continues to deteriorate despite increasing amounts of aid, demands it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The results report for the 3 years of the Sahel Alliance is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/results-report-3-years\/\">available on its website<\/a> and for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/AS_digital_EN.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">download in PDF format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Press-release-Sahel-Alliance-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first results report on the action of the Sahel Alliance, at the end of its 3 years of existence,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"thematiques":[],"types-de-ressources":[],"pays":[],"secteurs-intervention":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"thematiques","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thematiques?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-ressources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-ressources?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"secteurs-intervention","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alliance-sahel.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/secteurs-intervention?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}