The ECOWAS Fee via the Directorate of Humanitarian and Social Affairs organized a 3-day capability constructing workshop from 1st to third July 2024 for the ECOWAS Safety and Human Safety Built-in Coordination Mechanism (ECO-PHSICM) with the help of the Nationwide Early Warning and Response Mechanism Coordinating Centre (NCCRM) which is the coordinating Secretariat for the Mechanism (underneath the auspices of the Workplace of the Vice President of the Republic of Liberia).
The Workshop centered on reviewing progress recorded by Liberia from the institution of ECOPHSICM in 2022 and the adoption of an Implementation Roadmap. The Workshop additionally had the aims of reviewing the Roadmap (in view of latest and rising points) and growing an Motion Plan for its actualization for the interval 2024 to 2026. The Mechanism was established to drive a complete of Authorities and Society method in strengthening the ‘safety net’ for all individuals inside the territory of the Republic of Liberia.
Welcoming the contributors, the Ag. Director of the NCCRM, Mr. Arthur BESTMAN acknowledged that the workshop was essential to Liberia and the sub-region because it seeks to reinforce nationwide capacities for stopping, responding to and mitigating threats to human safety. He harassed the necessity for collaborative efforts by actors in the private and non-private sectors. Acknowledging collaboration with companions, together with WANEP, the Peace Constructing Workplace of Liberia, and GIZ-EPSAO, he thanked ECOWAS and the Authorities of Liberia for his or her continued dedication to realizing the targets of the mechanism.
Mr. Olatunde OLAYEMI Programme Officer, Trafficking in Individuals, on behalf of the ECOWAS Director for Humanitarian and Social Affairs, Dr SINTIKI Tarfa Ugbe, delivered remarks and offered an summary of the workshop. He highlighted the significance of safety inside the wider ambit of a human safety method as mirrored within the Revised Treaty of ECOWAS and within the Protocol Referring to the Mechanism for Battle Prevention, Administration, Decision, Peace-keeping and Safety in addition to the Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance. He identified the particular consideration given to the safety of the rights of girls and youngsters and different weak teams. He highlighted the important parts of the workshop, together with a evaluate of the present Roadmap and the target of clarifying key actions and indicators for the interval 2024 to 2026 and identification of key alternatives to be leveraged by the Mechanism. He talked about the supply of the sum of 25,000 USD launched to the workplace of the ECOWAS Resident Consultant in help of the ECOPHISM and thanked H.E the Resident Consultant for actions already being taken, in shut coordination with the NCCRM, to implement the grant.
Dr Nathaniel B. Walker who represented the ECOWAS Everlasting Consultant in Liberia, Amb. Josephine NKRUMAH acknowledged that the workshop, geared toward strengthening nationwide supply within the space of safety and human safety, relies on the identification of human safety realties in West Africa. These embody weaknesses within the rule of regulation and observance of elementary human rights. Cllr. N. Oswald Tweh, Minister of Justice, Republic of Liberia, pledged the unwavering help of his Ministry to the NCCRM in Liberia and ECO-PHSICM and requested all stakeholders to develop methods and create a synergy that may help and maintain this system in Liberia and the sub-region. He highlighted the necessity for a basic strengthening of the rule of regulation as being core to human rights and human safety.
In his opening remarks, Mr. Prince Menkalo Gbieu, the Chief of Workers within the Workplace of the Vice President of Liberia, tasked stakeholders to unite and present dedication in advancing and implementing plans for the strategic mitigation of human safety dangers; in the direction of an general harmonious society and nationwide and regional safety. He charged that, the prosperity of the individuals and safety, stability and peaceable coexistence inside the subregion will depend on the standard of choices and actions taken, together with in the course of the Workshop. He concluded by expressing gratitude to the ECOWAS Fee for its help to the NCCRM in Liberia.
Remarks had been additionally acquired from representatives of the ECOWAS Nationwide Workplace; Ministry of Labor; Ministry of Gender, Ladies and Youngsters’s Safety; Ministry of Finance&Improvement Planning and the Press Union of Liberia on behalf of the companions current on the workshop
The workshop featured classes on a variety of thematic focus areas that embody baseline threat and preparedness evaluation of safety and human safety vulnerabilities in Liberia, mapping of operational roles of key stakeholders which might be a part of the ECO-PHISCM, motion Planning for Implementation of the ECOPHISCM Street-map, sensible methods and procedures for group engagement, gender mainstreaming in ECO-PHISCM operations amongst others.
The workshop which was effectively attended ended with the adoption of a plan of motion for the implementation of the Liberian Street map on Safety and Human Safety.
Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Financial Group of West African States (ECOWAS).