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I.          Background

Following the recommendations by the 2019 steering committee meetings in view to improve management, enhance coordination, convergence, and institutional synergy of ECOWAP projects and programmes, ECOWAS, together with sister institutions - UEMOA, CILS, FAO and CORAF- are organizing online regional steering committee meetings from 1 to 10 February 2022.

As it was first experienced in 2021, the 2022 regional steering committees will be grouped per thematic interests to highlight areas of collaboration and synergy building. In addition, activity reports for year 2021 and the AWPB for 2022 will be submitted to the members of relevant project committees for endorsement. Prior to these committee meetings, ECOWAS organized technical monitoring committee (TMCs) meetings for projects in December 2021 to discuss achievements of the year under review and the 2022 AWPBs. These TMCs provided opportunities to conduct a comprehensive assessment of progress made in the implementation of the projects and discuss way forward to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the activities.

The regional steering committee meetings will cover the following eight thematic areas:

1.    Livestock &, pastoralism;

2.    Fishing and aquaculture;

3.    Agricultural productivity and competitiveness;

4.    Climate change adaptation ;

5.    Environment, forests and biodiversity conservation

6.    Pesticide management, plant pest management and SPS ;

7.    Resilience, food security and nutrition ;

8.    Institutional and organizational capacity building.

II.          Objectives 

The objectives of the regional thematic-based steering committee meetings are as below:

§     To approve the 2021 activity report for each project or program;

§     To approve the 2022 draft annual work plan and budget (AWPB) for each project;

§     To review the implementation progress of the recommendations made by the 2021 steering committee meetings and offer recommendations for each project; and

§  To discuss synergies, convergences and complementarities between projects implemented under the same thematic area.