ROPPA, founded in 2000, gathers organizations or "consensus executives" coming from 10 West African countries (Benin, Burkina Faso, the Ivory Coast, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo), since the 4th ROPPA Ordinary Convention in 2006 also Ghana and Sierra Leone. Its work deals with three major issues:
- sub-regional integration
- decentralization and
- globalization. ... [according to site editor's information; editors ilissAfrica]