ECOWAS is strengthening its social safety techniques by way of a 5-day workshop in Abuja from sixteenth to twentieth September 2024. The workshop, led by specialists in collaboration with ILO, UNDP, UNICEF, and the African Union, goals to construct a community of expert social safety leaders throughout Africa. It follows a system-strengthening strategy to boost the design and effectivity of social techniques.
The workshop focuses on rising the capability of ECOWAS employees, to implement the Social Safety Framework successfully whereas fostering collaboration amongst social safety actors inside the area.It represents a vital step towards constructing an inclusive social security internet in West Africa, positioning ECOWAS to deal with broader socio-economic challenges.
The continued workshop comes lower than a 12 months after the landmark validation of the ECOWAS Social Safety Framework and its Operational Plan in November 2023. At the moment, social safety specialists and ministers from ECOWAS member states gathered to endorse the framework, marking a historic second for the area. This doc was later advisable to the ECOWAS Council of Ministers for adoption by social safety ministers.
The ECOWAS Social Safety Framework holds the potential to deal with a few of the most urgent challenges dealing with member states within the design and implementation of social safety applications. Notably, it goals to deal with vital points comparable to financing, protection gaps, and coordination—challenges which have lengthy hindered the area’s capability to offer complete social security nets for its residents.
In her opening remarks, the ECOWAS Director of Humanitarian and Social Affairs Dr. Sintiki Tarfa–Ugbe represented by Dr. Daniel Amankwaah, P.P.O, Regulation Enforcement (Medicine) emphasised the important position of improved social safety techniques in Africa’s broader struggle in opposition to poverty. She highlighted how strengthening these techniques straight helps the achievement of Sustainable Growth Purpose (SDG) 1, which goals to eradicate poverty in all its kinds. Particularly, the framework aligns with SDG goal 1.3, which requires the institution of nationally acceptable social safety techniques and measures for all, significantly for essentially the most susceptible teams.
Moreover, the coaching aligns with ECOWAS’s personal strategic goals, as outlined within the 4×4 Strategic Goals and the ECOWAS Neighborhood Strategic Framework (Strategic Orientation 16). The Regional ECOWAS Social Safety Framework is a key aspect in realizing these objectives.
Dr. Sintiki famous that enhancing coordination amongst these stakeholders is crucial for guaranteeing that the framework delivers its supposed impression. By empowering social safety leaders and reinforcing regional cooperation, ECOWAS is laying the groundwork for a extra sturdy and inclusive social security internet throughout West Africa, positioning the area to higher tackle the social and financial challenges it faces, she added.
Mrs. Adebisi Arije, Partnership Manger (ECOWAS) UNICEF, reward the ECOWAS Social Safety Framework as a powerful signal of the significance hooked up to the Social Safety and strengthening of social safety techniques and mechanisms, which incorporates humanitarian and fragile settings. The UN organizations take into account this a milestone and are prepared to help ECOWAS and its member states its full implementation.
The transformation coaching his workshop units the stage for future progress, demonstrating ECOWAS’s dedication to making a safer and equitable future for the individuals of West Africa.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Neighborhood of West African States (ECOWAS).