The event is hosted by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) and the government of Burkina Faso and supported by the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (GM/UNCCD), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in the framework of the project "Promoting Sustainable Land Management (SLM) in migration-prone areas in West Africa through innovative financing mechanisms".

The main objective of the workshop is to identify strategies to address the challenges related to the nexus between climate change, desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD) and migration at national and regional level, as well as to highlight and analyze the policy implications for building resilience and preventing security challenges. 

Location: Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso