Mali lanches nine Climate Fund projects
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - The UNESCO Office in Bamako, in partnership with the government of Mali, launched last week in Bamako nine projects of the Mali Climate Fund, an official source told PANA here.
The projects, launched by the Malian Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maiga, target 400,000 young people and 600,000 women and cover 10 regions and 19 districts of the country.
These projects, which are estimated at 130 billion CFA francs, aim to reduce poverty and increase resilience to climate change.
In an intervention, the representative of the UNESCO office in Mali, Edmond Mounkala, told Prime Minister Choguel Kokalla Maïga that crises were not inevitable.
Through crises, he said, opportunities emerge. Returning to the projects that were the subject of today's meeting, Edmond Mounkala believed that it was with the populations of rural areas that sustainable development would be achieved.
According to Prime Minister Maïga, the defence of the environment is one of the priorities of any responsible government.
"The fight for security, food self-sufficiency, health and development will be meaningless as long as environmental degradation continues," said the prime minister, before officially launching the Mali Climate Fund projects.
The Mali Climate Fund is intended to be an innovative and operational mechanism capable of attracting and combining financing from the private and public sectors and from bilateral and multilateral sources.
The projects of this Fund will be presented to donors in the coming days by the coordinator of the United Nations system in Mali, during a roundtable to collect financing.
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