During the first day and half of the second, the forty participants to the extraordinary meeting went through the Statutes and the regulatory document article by article to amend both documents. The institutional reorganisation of the network is a crucial change. Thus, the National Coordination has changed its status to become the Executive Secretariat. This Secretariat will report directly to the Board of Directors. The ordinary elective meeting started in order to renew the various organs: the board of directors, the executive board, the experts’ committee.
After consultation of various categories of stakeholders represented in the partnership, a seventeen-member board was set up. Professor Euloge AGBOSSOU was elected as the new chair to take over Mr. André TOUPE. Mr. Cyriaque ADJINACOU is the new vice chair and Ms. Catherine PAUL is completing the executive board as the secretary.
The outgoing chair, M. André TOUPE thanked the partners of the CWP for their commitment since the platform was set up in 2001. Together with Professor Abel AFOUDA, the first chair of the CWP, they have patiently built one of the viable GWP national platforms. Mr. André TOUPE was congratulated and praised for a good work done by the regional representative, Mr. Sidi COULIBALY on the behalf of both the regional chair and executive secretary.
The new chair praised and thanked the outgoing board and urged partners to stay engaged for more bigger footprints of the CWP in the country. He pledged to continue and strengthen ongoing initiatives and start building new ones related to the national development agenda.