{"id":2606,"date":"2020-04-24T14:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanep.gravitywebsolutionsgh.com\/?p=2606"},"modified":"2020-04-24T14:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:08:47","slug":"wanep-usaid-in-historic-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wanep-usaid-in-historic-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"WANEP, USAID IN HISTORIC PARTNERSHIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WANEP and the United States Agency for International Development, USAID entered into a unique partnership on February 23, 2015 with the signing of a five-year contract for the implementation of a project on electoral violence. The direct partnership between the\u00a0 two institutions is the first of its kind in the region and attracted high-level interest from the US government including Counsellor to the US State Department, Thomas A. Shannon who was represented by Mr. Alexander Deprez, the USAID, West Africa Mission Director.<\/p>\n<p>The project \u201cMitigating Electoral Violence in West Africa\u201d aims to mitigate<br \/>\nelectoral violence in Burkina Faso, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Guinea, Niger and Sierra<br \/>\nLeone through WANEP National Early Warning Systems, NEWS. The symbolic ceremony took place in WANEP Regional office Accra, Ghana in the<br \/>\npresence of strategic partners including the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, KAPITC, representatives of USAID and the<br \/>\nmedia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WANEP and the United States Agency for International Development, USAID entered into a unique partnership on February 23, 2015 with the signing of a five-year contract for the implementation of a project on electoral violence. The direct partnership between the\u00a0 two institutions is the first of its kind in the region and attracted high-level interest from the US government including Counsellor to the US State Department, Thomas A. Shannon who was represented by Mr. Alexander Deprez, the USAID, West Africa Mission Director. The project \u201cMitigating Electoral Violence in West Africa\u201d aims to mitigate electoral violence in Burkina Faso, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-milestones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606","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=2606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanep.org\/wanep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}