Author: Abdel Kader Sanankoua
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EU/ECOWAS COOPERATION: 56 MILLION EUROS TO FUND ECOWAS 2011 WORK PLAN
Activities planned by ECOWAS and submitted to the European Union Funding will cost 56.6 M€ for this year. This comes from the 2011 work plan elaborated by ECOWAS for the implementation of the last phase of the Contribution Convention signed between EU and the ECOWAS Commission in June 2007. Extending over the period 2007-2011,…
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THE 4TH STEERING COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONAL INDICATIVE PROGRAMME RECOMMENDS A BETTER PLANNING OF THE 10TH EDF ACTIVITIES IN PREPARATION
By the end of the implementation of the Regional Indicative Program (RIP 9th EDF), in December 2012, ECOWAS and UEMOA risk likely a net loss of resources of roughly 30 million euro, due to insufficient human resources for the implementation of projects and delays in the starting and execution many others. This emerges from…
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TECHNICAL MEETING ON FINALIZING THE REGIONAL ROAD MAP OF PIR 10TH EDF
The technical meeting on finalizing the regional road map of PIR 10th, EDF jointly organized by the UEMOA and ECOWAS Commissions in Dakar, has organized at the end of its work session recommended to focus available resources on major programs and gave priorities to finance concrete projects visible by the populations, namely in the…
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PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS IS A CREDIBLE ALTERNATIVE TO MEET RESOURCES INSUFFICIENCY
Resources of private sector, public sector and Donors are getting less and less sufficient to implement national and regional projects and programs. An efficient remedy to this increasing difficulty through the World is «Public-Private Partnership (PPP), an approach that makes many actors to intervene at the same time. To increase knowledge and use of…
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HARMONIZE INTERNAL OPINIONS SO THAT TO PUT IN PLACE A UNIT FOR PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECOWAS PROJECTS
About twenty executives met in Kaduna to discuss major issues such as implementing at the earliest the Unit for Preparation and Development of the ECOWAS project (PPDU) while ensuring an appropriate institutional context, appropriate management autonomy and a compliance of texts with those of the Commission. During three days meeting, participants in Kaduna representing…
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3RD BUSINESS FORUM OF ECOWAS: TO MAKE THE WEST AFRICAN ECONOMIES MORE COMPETITIVE
Began on September 28, the 3rd Business Forum of ECOWAS which was attended by 400 private sector and civil society was completed on 1 October 2010 with the adoption of a series of recommendations with an accompanying action plan. The recommendations of the Forum include Abidjan on 3 strategic points, promoting self-sufficiency in energy,…