West Africa

STEPS 2018 Profile for Benin launched: Adapting educational options to indispensable human resource needs in order to propel the structural transformation of the country

Cotonou (Benin), 28 June 2018 (ECA) – The Government of Benin, in collaboration with the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has launched the Benin Country Profile on Structural Transformation, Employment, Production and Society (STEPS), in Cotonou, this Thursday, June 28.

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21st Session of ICE: New challenges and prospects for regional integration in West Africa, is at the heart of the Cotonou discussions

Cotonou, Benin, 27 June 2018 (ECA) – The Government of Benin in collaboration with the Subregional Office for Africa of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Wednesday started the 21st Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) for West Africa in Cotonou.

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Cotonou: West African Experts Meeting to Brainstorm on the Implications of ECOWAS Potential Expansion and the AfCFTA

Cotonou, Benin, 26 June 2018 (ECA) – The Government of Benin, in collaboration with the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has launched the activities of the Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting, under the theme: “Implications of ECOWAS potential expansion and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”, in Cotonou, on Monday, June 25.

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21st Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE): Debating the new challenges and prospects of regional integration in West Africa

Cotonou (Benin), 25 June 2018 (ECA) – The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Benin are organizing the 21st Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) for West Africa in Cotonou, on June 27-29.

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Reform of Civil Registration in Senegal: A Boost by the ECA

Dakar, Senegal, 20 June  2018 (ECA) - A high-level mission comprising representatives from the African Development Bank (AfDB), the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), led by the Director of the ECA Sub-Regional Office for West Africa, Mr. Dimitri Sanga, visited Dakar, Senegal from June 18 to 21.

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Ad hoc Expert Group Meeting on the implications of ECOWAS potential expansion and the AfCFTA

Cotonou, Benin, June 18, 2018 (ECA) – The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Benin are organizing an ad hoc expert group meeting, under the theme: “Implications of ECOWAS potential expansion and the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”, in Cotonou, on June 25-26.

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AD HOC EXPERT GROUP MEETING

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is the main regional economic community in West Africa. According to the African Union, ECOWAS is considered as one of the major regional economic communities whose contribution to the acceleration of the integration process of the continent is likely to have a considerable impact on areas such as trade, free movement of goods and persons and monetary matters.

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Twenty-first session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts, West Africa

The Intergovernmental Committee of Experts is a body established by the United Nations General Assembly.  In West Africa, it meets annually to discuss economic and social performance, based on working documents prepared by the Subregional Office for West Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA/SRO-WA).   The Subregional Office for West Africa, based in Niamey, covers the 15 member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS):  Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sie

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United Nations integrated strategy for the Sahel: Engage in dialogue with potential partners

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), May 07, 2018 - Within the framework of the 2018 Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), in collaboration with United Nations agencies, is organizing a high-level side event on the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel and the United Nations Support Plan for the Sahel (2018-2022).

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