Convention Establishing a Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
Year of publication
1974
Specific thematic area
Disaster preparedness, management and/or response
Sector of governance
Disaster
Type of human mobility
Not available
Characteristics of human mobility
Not available
Type of environmental driver
Drought
Local governance marker
Not Available
Sudden-onset/slow-onset
Both
Regional instruments Member countries
Benin, Cote d-Ivoire, Gambia, Guine-Bissau, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Cape Verde
Sub-region
Western Africa
Region
Western Africa
Macro-region
Africa
Relevant GCM objective
- GCM Objective 2 - Minimize adverse driversGCM Objective 23 - International cooperation
Child marker
Not Available
Gender marker
Not Available
Human rights marker
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´´ The functions of the Committee shall be: 1. To coordinate all action to combat the drought and its consequences at the subregional level; 2. To make the international community aware of the problems caused by the drought; 3. To appeal for resources to carry out the emergency programme agreed upon by the States as part of the campaign to combat the drought; 4. To mobilize resources in order to finance operations within the framework of subregional cooperation; 5. To assist member States and existing bodies in the area in seeking financing for their individual programmes.´´
Art. 4