AU - ECOWAS Commission workshop on African Union's Silencing the Guns agenda

24/03/2021
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24/03/2021
Descripción de la actividad

On 24 March 2021, the ECOWAS Commission held a one-day workshop on the modalities for implementing the Silencing the Guns agenda in West Africa, a flagship programme of the Africa Union’s Agenda 2063. The workshop was organized through the ECOWAS Directorate of Political Affairs in collaboration with the African Union Commission’s Silencing the Guns Unit. The objective of the workshop was to further discussions on an ECOWAS strategy and approach to the regionalisation of the Silencing the Guns Agenda in West Africa and in coordination and alignment with the African Union. The workshop was supported by the GIZ ECOWAS Peace and Security Architecture and Operations (EPSAO) Project.

Descripción del Proyecto

The ECOWAS Peace and Security Architecture and Operations (EPSAO) Project is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ GmbH). The overall goal of this Project is “to prevent and manage conflicts and security threats in West Africa” and the specific objectives are to: 1) Strengthen ECOWAS’s mechanisms to promote and maintain peace and stability and post crisis operations; 2) Enable ECOWAS to manage erupting or existing conflicts. 3) Contribute to the creation of a secure and safe post conflict environment. The four–year project, co-funded by the European Union,  under the Regional Indicative Programme/11th European Development Fund (RIP/11th EDF) and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with a total budget of 20.400.000 euros, closely works with the ECOWAS Commission, Member States, and civil society groups to enhance regional capacities and responses in the fields of mediation, peace support operations and security sector reform.

Tipo de actividad
Sensitization and outreach
Enfoque de la Actividad
Regional cooperation
Regional instruments
Small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls
Socios
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
Côte d’ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Implementadores
African Union (AU)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS)
Donantes
European Union (EU)
German Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA)
Contacto

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Address: Executive Secretariat, 6 King George V Rd, Lagos, Nigeria

Tel.:+234 1 63 68 41

Email: soulate@ecowas.int

 

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH

Address: Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 36-40, 53113 Bonn

Tel.: +49 228 44 60-0

Email: info@giz.de