GWP-WA TEC members meet to plan action

After a meeting held with the new Technical Committee (TC) chair in November in Ouagadougou, a larger meeting with the Chair, all Technical Committee members and the staff of the Executive Secretariat was organized in Bamako on 13 to 15 December 2017. The meeting served as a platform for GWP-WA TC members to engage with the Chair and Executive Secretariat on how to work together to advance GWP work at the regional level and in countries in West Africa.

As expected, the meeting came up to a common understanding on the GWP WA network, work and roles of its organs including the Technical Committee. The participants reflected on the implementation of the GWP-WA 2017 Assembly of Partners’ Meeting main recommendations and the roles of the TC in working together with other organs of the network. An action plan was drawn after a reflection on how to make efficient the support of the TC to the entire network; the aim is to make more relevant GWP work to advancing the development agendas in the region and the countries.

The meeting allowed to design an operational Work Plan for the GWP-WA TC from October 2017 to December 2018. The meeting discussed as well the modalities for the support of the TC members to the network in the region.