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The Week provided a platform for information-sharing and networking between West African leaders and their North African and international partners active in the region. 

Some 350 African leaders and international partners, including Ivoirian Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan, EU Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya, as well as many other high-level officials and representatives of the research community and civil society gathered in Abidjan for the 2013 Sahel and West Africa Week. 

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29th RPCA Meeting

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Members of the Food Crisis Prevention Network (RPCA) analysed the food and nutritional situation and made recommendations for key food security stakeholders.

AGIR-SEG

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Within the framework of the RPCA meeting, the AGIR Senior Experts' Group assessed progress made in the implementation of the Global Alliance for Resilience (AGIR) one year after its launch in Ouagadougou.

SWAC Forum

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Debates at the SWAC Forum focused on the development and stability of the Saharo-Sahelian areas fostering dialogue between North and West Africa. 

CILSS Parners Committee

Drawing on 40 years of experience, this statutory meeting took stock of the collaboration between the CILSS Executive Secretariat and its technical partners.

Regional Fund for Agricultural Development

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T‌he UEMOA Commission informed development partners and West African policy-makers on the achievements of the FRDA. > brochure

Field Visit of a Cocoa Plantation

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SWAC President De Donnea participated in a field visit at Kouamekro, a Cocoa Livelihoods Programme of the World Cocoa Foundation.

Invitation of the Government of Côte d'Ivoire 

A dance spectacle across the African continent was presented during the dinner offered by the Government of Côte d'Ivoire.

Invitation of the Belgian Embassy

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Ambassador Peter Huyghebaert invited SWAW participants to a cocktail-dinner in his personal residence in Abidjan.

The Sahel and West Africa Week (SWAW) is a series of annual meetings and events of the Sahel and West Africa Club and its partners. Taking place in a different location every year, in 2013, SWAW was celebrated in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 25 to 29 November.

SWAW is organised by the Secretariat of the Sahel and West Africa Club with the support of the Government of Côte d’Ivoire and in co-operation with the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States, the Commission of the West African Economic and Monetary Union and the Executive Secretariat of the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS). All three regional organisations are Members of the Club.

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