CEPAPE is the fruit of the collaboration between University of Ouagadougou and the Netherlands programme MHO (Medefinanciering Hoger Onderwijs). The programme aim to teaching programme, promoting multidisciplinary research and capacity building in techniques and logistics for the better environment protection and rationale use. CEPAPE has gathered great experience through several actions as the training of 17 teacher in environment issues (22 modules), the undertaking of Master Science degree in environment, the creation of the Journal of African environment science, the editing of documents on pedagogy. Additionally, CEPAPE has organized several workshop and training focused on research, pollution by pesticides and environmental sciences.

CEPAPE were the responsible for building the necessary capacities for the local authorities to be able to further disseminate and exploit the findings of NETSSAF initiative (task 8.2). Additionally, CEPAPE was responsible for the selection of typical examples/ study cases in Work Package 2. They were foreseen to support in, among other tasks, the identification and mapping of possible regional suppliers of technological requirements, focusing their region of action, and the identification of current technology transfer and implementation activities and their actors in WP5. They were also responsible for the organization of one Workshop in West Africa (Day Workshop), they published, with the support of TUT, at least one article regarding the EG4 (Governance and institution), and they gave a seminar during the final NETSSAF Conference on the Strategies of capacity building of authorities for future dissemination.

Prof. Yvonne  BONZI-COULIBALY
Address:	Centre d´Etudes pour la Promotion, l´Aménagement et la Protection de l´Environnement BP 7021 Ouagadougou Burkina Faso
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