The Regional workshop on the promotion of renewable energies and appropriate eco-technologies within the framework of the Convention to combat desertification in Africa, was held at El Mechtel Hotel in Tunis, Tunisia, October 26-29. This workshop is the fifth of a series of seven thematic consultations coming within the framework of the process of elaborating the Regional Action Programme to Combat Desertification in Africa.

The purpose was to bring out through a consensus and pragmatic approach the major lines of a continental network capable of consolidating the framework of information and expertise exchange, consultation and coordination, as well as consolidating the harmonization of approaches within the framework of the Regional Action Programme to combat desertification.