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  Background

At the last Strategy and Policy Group (SPG) meeting held in Berlin in January 2007, SPG members suggested that the next SPG meeting could take the form of a workshop on the five-year orientation plan of the Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC). The information note "Contributions to Discussions on the Orientations of the 2008-2012 Work Plan" served as reference for the exchange of views on the content of the SWAC Work Plan for the 2008–2012 period.

  Objectives

The workshop's aims were to:

• Discuss the transformations underway in West Africa and implications for SWAC
• Take stock of activities and key results of the SWAC’s 2005-2007 work period
• Exchange views on the future orientations of the SWAC’s 2008-2012 Work Plan

  Outcomes

• SPG members feedback on SWAC work orientations
• Roadmap for the development of the SWAC's Work Plan 2008-2012

The summary record of the meeting will soon be available.

  Participants

• SWAC's financial partners
• SWAC's West African partners and other development partners of the West African region
• Representatives of the West African diplomatic community based in Paris
• Members of the OECD Development Cluster

  Contact: 

• Anne Hamilton, SWAC (registration, logistic information)

   Read more:

• Agenda
• Summary Record
• List of Participants
• Opening Statement by Mr. Mario Amano, OECD Deputy Secretary-General 
• Opening Statement by Dr. Ibn Chambas, President of the ECOWAS Commission (French)
• Opening Statement by Mr. Charles Goerens, SWAC President (French)
• Contributions to Discussions on the Orientations of the 2008-2012 Work Plan, Information Note, SWAC August 2007