The official website of the Central Bank of West African States. It contains financial information, information on banking and the financial system, integration projects, WAMU (the West African Monetary Union), and the institution itself. Readers can get access to regular publications, special publications, studies and research links. ... [editors EconBiz]
Conciliation Resources informs and strengthens peace processes around the world by making sure that the hard-won lessons of peacemaking are analysed, documented and readily available. We do this through our acclaimed Accord publication series and projects. Over the past 10 years we have developed a unique body of documentation on peace processes and armed conflict. ... [according to site editor's information]
Work began in 1990 to establish a regional network of peacebuilding initiatives in West Africa. This arose as a result of the Liberia civil war, which necessitated the creation of a regional peace intervention force. Religious and civil society groups were mobilized to collectively participate in active peacebuilding. In the northern region of Ghana a consortium of non-governmental organizations with funding support from the British High Commission in Ghana became actively involved in peacebuilding to respond to inter-communal violence that threatened Ghana's stability.WANEP was created as a mechanism to harness peacebuilding initiatives and to strengthen collective interventions that were already bearing good fruits in Liberia, the Northern Region of Ghana, and Sierra Leone. ... [according to site editor`s information]
The West African Monetary Institute (WAMI) established under the Agreement of the West African Monetary Zone shall perform its functions and carry out its activities in accordance with the WAMZ Agreement. The members of the WAMI shall be the central banks of the Member States (National Central Banks). The WAMI in collaboration with the Technical Committee shall have the responsibility of managing the stages of implementation of the WAMZ up to the commencement of the WACB. ... [according to site editor's information]
ECOWAS is a regional group of fifteen countries, founded in 1975. Its mission is to promote economic integration in "all fields of economic activity, particularly industry, transport, telecommunications, energy, agriculture, natural resources, commerce, monetary and financial questions, social and cultural matters." ... [according to site editor's information]
The Community Court of Justice was established in 1991 and the Revised Treaty of the community came into existence in 1993. According to the Protocol on the community Court of Justice it shall1. ... ensure the observance of the law and of the principles of equity in the interpretation and application of the provisions of the Treaty.2. ... also be competent to deal with disputes referred to it in accordance with the provisions of Article 36 of the Treaty, by Member States or the Authority, when such disputes arise between the Member States or between one or more Member States and the Institutions of the Community, on the interpretation or application of the provisions of the Treaty.3. A Member State may on behalf of its nationals, institute proceedings against another Member State or Institution of the Community, relating to the interpretation and application of the provisions of the Treaty, after attempts to settle the disputes amicably have failed.4. ... shall have any powers conferred upon it specifically by the provisions of this Protocol. ... [according to site editor's information]
The ECOWAS Parliament has 115 seats, which are distributed among the 15 ECOWAS Member States on the basis of their population. Nigeria, which has by far the largest population, has 35 seats while the least populated, such as Togo and Gambia, have 5 seats each. The Parliament’s political organs are the plenary, the Bureau, the Conference of Bureaux and the parliamentary standing committees. A General Secretariat, under the authority of the Speaker of Parliament, is responsible for the administration of Parliament. ... [according to site editor's information]
The West African Monetary Agency (WAMA) is an autonomous specialized agency of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). WAMA was empowered to ensure the monitoring, coordination and implementation of the ECOWAS monetary cooperation programme, encourage and promote the application of market determined exchange rates for intra-regional trade, initiate policies and programmes on monetary and economic integration and ensure the establishment of a single monetary zone in West Africa. ... [according to site editor's information]
The main role of the Center for Gender Development is to establish, develop, facilitate, coordinate and follow up the strategies and programmes aimed at ensuring that matters related to the disparities between men and women in the integration programmes of the Community as well as women promotion are incorporated within the framework of objectives of the ECOWAS Treaty. Its mission is to:
- Implement the ECOWAS policy and system of gender management;
- Strive for the increase in the performance of women in their fields of activities (seminars, round tables, study trips in order to stimulate the spirit of entrepreneurship and enjoy better exchange of experience);
- Ensure apprenticeship and development of skills needed to execute the Millennium Goals on sex equality in the sub-region and in programmes;
- Build networks and partnership with relevant Agencies and Institutions for financial, technical and statutory support to the activities of the Center. ... [according to site editor's information]
WRCU is a regional Unit in charge of the follow-up and supervision of ECOWAS activities in the domain of water management and implementation of the Regional Action Plan on IWRM in West Africa. The Unit is placed under the supervision of ECOWAS Deputy Executive Secretary in charge of Integration Programs and is localised in Ouagadougou - Burkina Faso.
The objective is the promotion of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) practices, the coordination and follow-up of the Regional Action Plan in order to permit the West African countries to have an operational IWRM Action Plan at their disposal in accordance with ECOWAS statutes, policies and programmes. ... [according to site editor's information]