Lomé (Togo), 18 February 2022 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), through its Sub-regional Office for West Africa, organized from February 15 to 16, 2022 in Lomé, Togo, a conversation with members of the West African economic journalists network.
This meeting is part of its communication and knowledge management strategy through the organization of Policy Dialogues and “Conversations”, in order to better engage key partners such as decision-makers and other development actors.
These series of dialogues are also organized in response to the recommendation of the 24th Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts of West Africa held from 10 to 11 November 2021 in Banjul, The Gambia, relating to better dissemination of the results of the SRO-WA/ECA.
Placed under the theme: "Achievements by the ECA Sub-regional Office for West Africa in 2021 and Outlook for 2022-2023", this conversation had the double objective of further informing the members of the Network of Economic Journalists for the West Africa on the work of SRO-WA/ECA, its tools for intervention and support to countries, Regional Economic Commissions (RECs) and to discuss the importance of the partnership built between the Office and the Network in the dissemination, even the amplification of the Office's work with development and regional integration actors in West Africa.
This meeting was also an opportunity for SRO-WA/ECA to start the Series of Dialogues as a prelude to the Fifty-fourth (54th) Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM2022) of the ECA, scheduled for March 2022 under the theme: "Financing Africa's Recovery: A New Beginning".
For the Director of SRO-WA/ECA, Madame Ngone Diop, "The work of the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of ECA was carried out in 2021 in a context marked by the challenges of a pandemic which hardship, the fight against youth unemployment, insecurity and the most urgent need to accelerate the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“Despite this lacklustre context, 2021 has been a successful year for the ECA Sub-Regional Office for West Africa. As you will see during our various presentations,” added Madame Ngone Diop.
“As media specialists, you are therefore the conduit for all these results so that the work of the ECA is apprehended and understood by all. But a fortiori, so that we can best respond to the needs of our countries, "said the Director of SRO-WA/ECA to journalists.
This conversation recorded the participation of about thirty journalists from the 15 ECOWAS States.
The West African Economic Journalists Network was set up in 2017 by BSO-WA/CEA with the aim of promoting the development of a responsible and dynamic partnership with West African media with a view to better visibility and better dissemination of its interventions as well as development issues of interest to the sub-region in the service of the economic and social development of the Member States, as this is recalled.
For further information, please contact Tahirou Gouro, Communication Officer, ECA- SRO/WAQ Email: gouro2@un.org,