The ECOWAS Fee via the Directorate of Free Motion of Individuals and Migration carried out a Cross Border Cooperation Undertaking Monitoring and Analysis train from 14-19 August 2024, in Wellingara-Ba, The Gambia, to evaluate the extent of implementation of the Wellingara-Ba Lumo (Market) mission.
The Wellingara-Ba Lumo mission, being financed by the ECOWAS Fee underneath the ECOWAS Cross-Border Cooperation Assist Programme (ECBCSP), is developed by the Gambian Ministry of Commerce, Business, Regional Integration, and Employment which homes the ECOWAS Nationwide Workplace, in collaboration with the Mansakonko Space Council. The aim is to transform the native market within the space to a contemporary Cross-Border Buying and selling Centre.
The Director of Free Motion of Individuals and Migration of the ECOWAS Fee, Mr. Albert Siaw-Boateng who led the Monitoring and Analysis workforce on behalf of the Commissioner for Financial Affairs and Agriculture, Mrs. Massandjé Toure-Litse, counseled the extent of the progress of the mission so far, citing the superior stage of the primary constructions, the finished solar-powered borehole and solar-powered lights in addition to a fringe fence as welcome developments in the direction of the completion of the Wellingara-Ba Lumo.
Talking in the course of the evaluation of the Undertaking web site, the Head of the ECOWAS Nationwide Workplace of The Gambia, Mrs. Ndeye Taraba Touray briefed the ECOWAS Fee’s Monitoring and Analysis workforce on particulars of the mission and highlighted a few of its challenges which embody the necessity for extra financing for its completion.
The Wellingara-Ba Lumo Undertaking is predicted to have fifty market stalls, six bathroom amenities – three for male and three for females and a chilly storage facility while noting that there are 2 hundred and fifty (250) registered market girls.
The ECOWAS Cross-Border Cooperation Assist Programme is a Multi-Sectoral Improvement Programme that works with native communities in border areas to make sure social cohesion, regional building and sustainable growth. Inside the framework of the programme, the ECOWAS Fee had disbursed a 100 thousand US {Dollars} ($100,000) subvention to Member States in the direction of the implementation recognized tangible cross-border initiatives.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS).