Past Events of the Sahel and West Africa Club

Overcoming barriers: Human mobility and development, presentation on the 2009 UNDP Human Development Report and the SWAC/OECD's publication on Regional Challenges of West African Migration, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Paris, contact: laurent.bossard@oecd.org

EU Development Days, OECD stand within the Development Village, Stockholm (Sweden), contact: julia.wanjiru@oecd.org

Seminar on the "Electoral process in Côte d'Ivoire", IFRI, 14:30-17:00pm, contact: massaer.diallo@oecd.org

Validation workshop of the Regional Investment Programme for Agriculture (PRIA), Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)

ECOWAS/SWAC Experts Meeting on Conflict Systems and Risk Assessment in West Africa, Bamako (Mali)

SWAC Strategy and Policy Group Meeting, International Energey Agency, Paris

Stakeholders Meeting on ECOWAS Cross-border Co-operation, Abuja (Nigeria)

Workshop on the Regional Investment Programme for Agriculture (PRIA), Dakar (Senegal)

4th Restricted Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, OECD Conference Centre, Paris

ECOWAS/SWAC Experts Meeting on Conflict Systems and Risk Assessment, Bamako (Mali)

West Africa Regional Workshop on the AU Border Programme, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

March

Launching Workshop of the Saly-Action Plan, Accra (Ghana)

ECOWAS/CILSS Meeting on Food Security, Cotonou (Benin)

16-18

CILSS Regional Conference on the "Agricultural and Food Situation and the Trade Opportunities in the Sahel and in West Africa", Abuja (Nigeria)

ECOWAS Workshop on the Peace Exchange Platform, Praia (Cape Verde)

Debate on the "Geostrategic Impact of Major Demographic Trends : Consquences on Migration-Conflict Dialectics", CEREM, Paris

Launching Workshop of the Regional Agricultural Investment Programme (PRIA), drafting of the sub-programme on "Improved Management of other Shared Resources", Bamako (Mali) > Agenda 

Task Force Meeting on Child Labour in the Cocoa Sector, OECD/Paris

High-level Parliamentary Conference on Policy Coherence for Development and Migration, Brussels

WANSED/ECOWAS/DCAF Workshop on Security Sector Reform, Abuja (Nigeria)

Workshop on the Future of International Migration to OECD Countries, OECD Headquarters

Scientific Workshop on the OMAE Project on the "West African-international migration observatory for a new co-operation between West African and the EU", University Paris Descartes, Poitiers

SWAC Strategy and Policy Group Meeting, OECD Headquarters

ECOWAS Workshop on Conflict Systems and Risk Assessment in West Africa, Conakry (Guinea)

European Development Days, Strasbourg (France)

West African Ambassadors' Information Meeting, SWAC Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux

ECOWAS/Development Partners Annual Co-ordination Meeting, Abuja (Nigeria)

2nd Euro-African Ministerial Conference on Migration and Development, Paris

24th Annual Food Crisis Prevention Network Meeting, Dakar (Senegal)

CILSS Workshop on Food Security and 2008 Crop Prospects in the Sahel and West Africa, Praia (Cape-Vert)

ECOWAS Workshop on the setting-up of a Peace Forum, Dakar (Senegal) 

ECOWAS/SWAC Editorial Committee Meeting of the West Africa Report: validation of content and preparation of outreach activities, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Third High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, Accra (Ghana)

SWAC-internal Workshop - Validation of the "West Africa Report", Issy-les-Moulineaux, SWAC Headquarters

Information Workshops on SWAC Work with the Austrian Development Co-operation, Vienna (Austria)

West African Experts Workshop on Livestock and Transhumant Pastoralism, SWAC Headquarter

30-3

ECOWARN Launching in Mali, ECOWAS Workshop, Bamako (Mali)

9-11          

Experts' Meeting on Migration and Development, Dakar (Senegal)

WANSED Workshop on Collaboration with ECOWAS and the Donors' Role and Governance in the Security Sector, Abuja (Nigeria) > SWAC Statement | www.wansed.info

3-5

SWAC/ECOWAS Workshop on Post-Conflict and Development, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)

16                

SWAC Strategy and Policy Group Meeting, SWAC Headquarters

ACDI/CIDA Preparatory Workshop for Accra on the "Role of Civil Society Organisations in Advancing Aid Effectiveness", Bamako (Mali) > summary record

3rd restricted Food Crisis Prevention Network Meeting, OECD Conference Centre, Paris 

4-5 

Editorial Workshop: West Africa Report 2007-2008, Cotonou (Benin)

11      

20-21              

OECD DAC GOVNET Conference on "Governance Assessment and Aid Effectiveness", London

17

Workshop on the Financing of the ECOWAS Cross-Border Initiatives Programme (CIP) and the Karakoro Basin Pilot Operation, Bamako (Mali)

24 

West African Ambassadors Meeting, OECD, Paris

31-1           

11-12

Regional Workshop on Policy Coherence in Fisheries in West Africa, organised by Enda Diapol/REPAO, WWF, Sub-Regional Commission of Fisheries, with the support of the OECD, Division of Fisheries Policy and the SWAC, Dakar (Senegal)

12 

West African Ambassadors Meeting, SWAC/OECD, Paris

12-13 

Workshop on the Joint SWAC/ECOWAS Annual Report on "Resources for Development in West Africa", Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) 

ECOWAS Meeting of the Regional Programme on Agricultural Investment (PRIA), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

WANSED Meeting on elections in West Africa, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)

ECOWAS Ministerial Meeting of the Technical Committee on Agriculture and Food Supply, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Brainstorming Seminar on Education in Nomad environment, Dori (Burkina Faso)

19-20

ECOWAS/Development Partners Annual Coordination Meeting, Abuja (Nigeria)

27-30          

23rd Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, jointly organised by the SWAC/CILSS, Brussels (Belgium)

WANSED Meeting on "Security in West Africa", Accra (Ghana)

SWAC Mission to Benin, Burkina Faso and Ghana to meet with West African government representatives and SWAC partners (CILSS, ECOWAS, UEMOA, UN, USAID)

13-14             

SWAC Strategy and Policy Group Meeting, SWAC Headquarters, Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris

17-21

19-21     

Launching workshop of the Regional Programme for Agricultural Investment (PRIA) and the NEPAD’s Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme, Cotonou (Benin) 

Mid-August 

SWAC meetings with Representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Clinton Foundation to mobilise funding, New York

25-27 

Joint SWAC/FAO mission to the Regional Centre Agrhymet (CILSS-CRA), Niamey (Niger)

Field Mission to the Kano-Katsina-Maridi (K²M) Cross-Border Corridor (Niger-Nigeria)

AU Ministerial Meeting on the Establishment of the AU's Borders Programme, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

SWAC Mission to ECOWAS, Abuja (Nigeria) 

3rd Meeting of the Cape Verdien Transition Support Group - "Cape Verde's Graduation from the Least Developped Countries", Praia (Cape Verde)

11-19           

CILSS Meetings on Food Security issues, Bamako (Mali)

7th Global Forum on Reinventing Government - SWAC participation in working session VII on Governance Challenges in Crisis and Post-Conflict Countries, Vienna (Austria)

14-15       

2nd experts meeting on the draft proposal for an ECOWAS Joint Approach on Migration, Accra (Ghana)

30-31

ECOWAS Ministerial Meeting on the draft proposal for an ECOWAS Joint Approach on Migration, Bamako (Mali)

End       

Launching of the new SWAC website: www.westafricaclub.org 

ECOWAS Seminar on Early-Warning Systems for Crisis Prevention, Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network in the Sahel and West Africa, OECD Paris 

First Experts Meeting on the elaboration of an ECOWAS Joint Approach on Migration, Dakar (Senegal)  

Experts Meeting on the Establishment of the AU Border Programme, Bamako (Mali) 

19-22     

SWAC Mission to ECOWAS to Follow-Up on the ECOWAS Retreat, Abuja (Nigeria)

SWAC Mission to the African Union and UNECA: Strengthening Cross-Border Co-operation, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Joint CILSS/SWAC Political Mission to meet with the Nigerien President within the framework of the initiative on "Cross-Border Co-operation and Food Security in the Kano-Katsina-Maradi (K2M) Corridor", Niamey (Niger)

Regional Working Group on the DDR, Post-conflict and Development in West Africa, Praia (Cape Verde)

31st session of the Authority of Heads and State and Government of ECOWAS, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

The Sahel and West Africa Club's Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) meeting, GTZ House, Berlin

12-13       

22nd Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (FCPN), organised by the CILSS and the SWAC at the FAO Headquarters in Rome (Italy)

November

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Information Meeting with West African Ambassadors, OECD Paris > summary report

SWAC Roundtable on "Exploring Opportunities for Sustainable Shrimp Farming in West Africa: Focus on South‐South Co-operation", Conakry (Guinea)

26-28

Inter-generational Forum on Endogenous Governance, organised by the SWAC, Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Thematic Meeting of the SWAC's Strategy and Policy Group (SPG): "Medium- and Long Term Development Perspectives of West Africa", Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

Information Meeting with West African Ambassadors, OECD Paris > summary report

20-21

Information Meeting on the Food Situation in West Africa and the Follow-up to the Recommendations on Food Security, Paris 

26-28

Working meeting on "Women, Endogenous Governance and Conflict Prevention in West Africa", Niamey (Niger)

28-30

Workshop on "Human Security in West Africa: Challenges, Co-ordination and Action for a Regional Agenda", Lomé (Togo)