West Africa
Preliminary Issues
• Need to have Francophone participation.
Suggestion is to include CSO from Benin.
• These proposals are of a tentative nature.
Wider inputs required to reflect
francophone perspectives.
Suggested Activities
• Mapping in WA region. Identify CSOs for
networking and partnerships.
• Research on improving policy engagements with
regional institutions, e.g. ECOWAS, African
Commission on Human Rights, Banjul, etc
• Research on budget analysis and monitoring
initiatives in WA region. How effective in policy
engagements.
• Exchange visits to SA region: food security
issues in Sahelian areas.
Additional Resources
• In-country challenge funds by donors, e.g.
DFID, DANIDA, CIDA
• Peace and Social Justice Programme of
the Ford Foundation, WA
Important Research Issues
• Monitor the outcomes of the WTO
Ministerial meeting, Hong Kong, Dec
2005, on WA region.
• Budget analysis and monitoring and its
effectiveness as a mechanism for policy
engagement.
Maximizing Impact, Capacity
• To develop stronger linkages among
CSOs across WA region through networks
and partnerships.
• Engaging with regional bodies on policy
issues.
• More South-South partnerships.
• Networking
• TOTs on policy research and advocacy.
Global issues
• Trade, Access to markets, subsidies
• Debt cancellation
Information products
• CD Roms
• Policy briefs packaged by CSOs in region
with CSPP support for policy makers
• Policy briefing meetings by in-country
CSOs
• Easily accessible website