On June 25, 2015, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, WANEP rolled out the drums to celebrate
\nthe Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS 40th anniversary in an interactive Forum
\nheld in Dakar, Senegal. The Minister of African Integration, NEPAD and Good Governance represented
\nby the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Monsieur Massamba SENE gave the Keynote address aptly titled:
\n\u201cSustaining Peace and Security in West Africa \u2013 40 Years of Challenges and Opportunities for CSOs Engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n
This follows on the Media Roundtable earlier organized by WANEP on May 18, 2015 as a platform for robust reflections with the media and CSOs on the accomplishments of ECOWAS and challenges in the last four decades.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the Interactive Forum, Her Excellency Mrs. Salamatu Sulieman,
\nECOWAS Commissioner of Political Affairs, described the high powered event
\nas \u201can excellent opportunity to share experiences and explore collaborative strategies for entrenching sustainable peace in our region.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Executive Director of WANEP, Mr.
\nChukwuemeka Eze, in his welcome address reiterated the cordial relationship of ECOWAS with CSOs as stipulated in the ECOWAS Conflict Prevention Framework (ECPF). A relationship, he said, has resulted to the emergence of a broader civil society platform such as the West Africa Civil Society Forum, WACSOF.<\/p>\n
Board chair of WANEP Regional, Professor Isaac Olawale Albert, identified the competent human resources in ECOWAS, the partnership with CSOs and with centers of excellence as contributing significantly to making \u201cECOWAS a pride to the global community and a model Regional Economic Community on the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On June 25, 2015, the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding, WANEP rolled out the drums to celebrate the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS 40th anniversary in an interactive Forum held in Dakar, Senegal. The Minister of African Integration, NEPAD and Good Governance represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Monsieur Massamba SENE gave the Keynote address aptly titled: \u201cSustaining Peace and Security in West Africa \u2013 40 Years of Challenges and Opportunities for CSOs Engagement.\u201d This follows on the Media Roundtable earlier organized by WANEP on May 18, 2015 as a platform for robust reflections with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wanep-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}