By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The ECOWAS Commission and the African Development Bank (AfDB), on Tuesday in Abuja began a joint consultation meeting on the mid-term performance reviews
of the Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for West Africa for 2020-2025.
The meeting, which began today, Tuesday, September 5th, will end on Friday, September 8, 2023.
In a statement made available to Daybreak today, the meeting will focus on a number of topics, including the challenges and prospects of regional integration in West Africa, the state of cooperation between the Commission and the Bank, the Bank’s strategic orientation and priority areas of intervention, and future priority projects between the two institutions.
Furthermore, interventions to be discussed include economic affairs, agriculture, human development and social affairs, infrastructure, energy and digitalization, political affairs, peace and security, transportation, energy, and information and communication technology.
Expected outcomes of the meeting is a report outlining the primary conclusion and recommendations of the Bank’s engagement with the Commission and it will be submitted to the leadership of both the Bank and the ECOWAS Commission.
