This decision support note is the second to materialize the operationalization of the Observatory of Mobile Livestock Systems in West Africa and the Sahel (OSEMAOS); an information platform piloted by the AGRHYMET Regional Center of CILSS in collaboration with ECOWAS and WAEMU. It deals with the pastoral situation from June to November 2024 based on data and informations transmitted by the focal points of the countries, by the Professional Organizations of breeders, pastoralists and farmers, local and cross-borderinter-communities.

The stakeholders involved in the project to Improve Food and Nutrition Governance and Sustainable Agriculture in the Sahel and West Africa (PAGR-SANAD), notably ECOWAS, UEMOA, CILSS and CEI/PREGEC region through ROPPA, have been heavily involved in improving the food and nutrition situation for many years. On an institutional level, nutrition has been considered, following the accession of all the countries in the Sahel and West Africa region to the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) movement. Almost all the countries have revised their nutrition policies and strategies in line with the multi-sectoral approach. However, the issues of nutrition-sensitive sustainable food security remain a major challenge.