The Federal government of Côte d’Ivoire, with the Ministry of Economic Situation, Preparation and Growth, introduced the yearly conference of the Regional Online Forum of Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) of West Africa on June 10th, in Abidjan, on the motif: “Strengthening the harmony of activities to increase local combination and lasting growth in West Africa in a context of several obstacle”.
This conference, which was held from June 10 -11 2024, was arranged by the United Nations Economic Compensation for Africa, Sub-Regional Workplace for West Africa (UNECA-SRO-WA), in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Situation, Preparation and Growth of Côte d’Ivoire.
The purpose of this Regional Online forum was mainly to enhance the collaboration for lasting growth in between the entities of the United Nations system stood for by the ECA and the Workplace of the Homeowner Planner of the Cream Color Shore on the one hand, and West African IGOs on the various other.
In his speech at the opening event, Mr. Phillipe Lasmel, Supervisor General of Growth Collaboration at the Ministry of Economic Situation, Preparation and Growth, specified that “regardless of the financial development made by nations in the sub-region, they will certainly not have the ability to satisfy the 2030 SDGs targets”.
” It is for that reason immediate to activate around all the bars with the ability of reversing this fad. Hereof, local combination comprises a vital bar for attaining the purposes of lasting growth and far better replying to the desires for health of African populaces,” states Mr. Philippe Lasmel.
For his component, the agent of the Supervisor of the ECA Sub-Regional Workplace for West Africa, Mr. Amadou Diouf, verified that the sub-region requires collective initiatives from all stakeholders to attain total combination and lasting growth, in addition to Program 2063.
According to Amadou Diouf, it is needed to take on a strategy that enables enhancing the harmony of treatments around 4 axes of merging: i) growth of rivers and containers for water administration and accessibility to power; ii) info and information generation; iii) Funding centers, promo of a solitary money, incorporated repayment systems, and fortifying of the macroeconomic structure; and iv) multisectoral and area treatments.
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