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Background | Objectives | Topics | Conclusions | Participants | Contacts & Documents
 Background
The idea for this Forum originated within the framework of the workshop, “Capitalising on Endogenous Capacities for Conflict Prevention and Governance in West Africa” which was held in March 2005 in Conakry. The participants, representative of various actors of the region expressed the need to deepen strategic thinking on endogenous capacities while ringing together in one meeting, youth, women, knowledge and widsom bearers in order to establish an exchange of views between different generations on African capacities relating to governance.
Objectives
The Forum's objectives were to:
- Develop an inter-generational synergy contributing to the transmission, update and capitalisation of regional capacities;
- Define, with this view, the strategies to sustainably combine various generations’ expertise and capacities with a view to effectively meeting the already identified challenges;
- Propose initiatives that will contribute to the advent and implementation of African governance comprised of regional capacities and external contributions.
Topics
Discussion and debates were organised in three workshops on the following topics:
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Culture, Governance and Development;
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Conflicts, Peace and Governance;
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Societal Evolution : Situation, Role and Responsibility of its Different Components.
Conclusions
Discussions and debates both during plenary meetings and workshops led to the following general conclusions and recommendations:
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Create the bases of a network for governance firmly anchored in the realities of the region and in the service of its people;
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Reinforce the partnership with young people, women and the elderly in the view of setting up objectives to capitalise on endogenous achievements and to appreciate inter-generational possibilities;
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Contribute to the reproduction of the Forum and its inter-generational dialogue dynamic at the national and local level;
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Involve ECOWAS in setting up the objectives determined by the Forum.
Participants
Some 100 representatives from the 15 Member States of ECOWAS (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo) as well as Mauritania, Cameroon and Chad, joined by France, Luxembourg, observers from the region and OECD Member States (France, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Canada), representatives from ECOWAS, the African Union, UNOWA, AfDB, UEMOA and the CILSS participated in the Forum.
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