Obtain emblemThe nationwide IWRM focal factors of the 15 ECOWAS Member States and the area’s basin organisations, the technical and monetary companions and the ministers in command of water sources of the 15 ECOWAS Member States are anticipated from 25 to twenty-eight June 2024 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, to participate within the statutory conferences of the Everlasting Coordination and Monitoring Framework (PCMF) for IWRM in West Africa. The assembly is being organised by the ECOWAS Water Assets Administration Centre (WRMC).
It was in the course of the West African Ministerial Convention on Built-in Water Assets Administration held in Ouagadougou from 3 to five March 1998 that the then 16 ECOWAS nations made a agency dedication to maneuver from sectoral and technocratic water sources administration to built-in and participatory administration, in accordance with the ideas adopted by the Dublin preparatory convention in January 1992 and endorsed by the UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992. The applying of the suggestions of this Convention led particularly to the adoption of the Regional Motion Plan for Built-in Water Assets Administration in West Africa (RAPIWRM-WA) by the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Authorities in December 2000 and to the creation of a Everlasting Coordination and Monitoring Framework (PCMF) for IWRM in West Africa by choice of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Authorities in December 2001.
Given the truth that the regional IWRM course of in West Africa is in the present day in a sure lethargy marked particularly by the non-holding of statutory conferences of the PCFM since its final our bodies organised in Dakar in November 2015, The holding of the eleventh Session of the Committee of Specialists and the fifth Atypical Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee in Abuja goals to provide new impetus to the regional IWRM course of in West Africa with the principle goal of revisiting the regional IWRM course of in West Africa and figuring out promising work prospects, considering the developments recorded within the area by way of water sources administration since 2015.
The Abuja conferences might be held in two levels. The primary, to be held from 25 to 27 June 2024, will concentrate on the conferences of the Technical Committee of Specialists (CTE), which is able to look at the state of implementation of the resolutions of the 4th extraordinary session of the Ministerial Comply with-up Committee on IWRM in West Africa, adopted by the presentation of the CGRE/ECOWAS 2016-2023 exercise report, the draft CGRE/ECOWAS 2024 programme and price range, the state of implementation of the PREAO and ongoing or deliberate ECOWAS and accomplice initiatives.
The second assembly issues the Ministerial Monitoring Committee, which might be held on Friday 28 June. Throughout this fifth Atypical Session, a number of points might be examined, particularly the draft strategic plan of the CGRE-ECOWAS 2020-2030, the draft directive on the event of hydraulic infrastructures in West Africa, the draft directive on the administration of shared water sources in West Africa; the relaunch of the programme to advertise new transboundary basin organisations in West Africa; the institutional examine for a reform of the PCMF and the operationalisation of the Regional Water Observatory.
As a reminder, the individuals anticipated on the eleventh Session of the CTE are particularly the IWRM Nationwide Focal Factors of the 15 ECOWAS Member States; the IWRM Focal Factors of the Basin Organisations of the area (ABCBT, ABN, ABV, ABM, OMVG, OMVS, CBLT, MRU); representatives of the sub-regional Establishments intervening within the water sector in West Africa (UEMOA, CILSS, ALG, GWP/AO); Representatives of African Regional Establishments (AMCOW, ADB/FAE, EAA); Technical and Monetary Companions (PACO-IUCN, OSS, UNECE 1992 Water Conference, ACEWATER, WASCAL); ECOWAS entities concerned in water sources administration (WAPP, Atmosphere Directorate, Agriculture Directorate, Fouta Djallon Mountains Programme, PPDU, ECREEE, ARAA) and the CGRE-ECOWAS Workers.
The fifth Session of the Ministerial Monitoring Committee (MMC) might be attended by the Ministers in command of water sources of the 15 ECOWAS Member States and the ECOWAS Commissioner in command of water sources.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS).
