The overall objective of these statutory meetings of the Permanent Coordination and Monitoring Framework for IWRM in West Africa (PCMF) is to revisit the regional IWRM process in West Africa and identify promising work prospects, taking into account the developments in water resource management in the region since 2015.
At the end of these meetings, resolutions were taken and a final communiqué was issued with the report of the experts' meeting.
The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) process in West Africa was born out of the West African Ministerial Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management held in Ouagadougou from 3 to 5 March 1998.
During this Conference, the 16 ECOWAS countries at the time made a firm commitment to move from sectoral and technocratic water resource management to integrated and participatory management, in accordance with the principles adopted by the Dublin Preparatory Conference in January 1992 and endorsed by the UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992.
The implementation of the recommendations of this Conference led in particular to the adoption of the Regional Action Plan for Integrated Water Resources Management in West Africa (WARAP/IWRM) by the ECOWAS Conference of Heads of State and Government in December 2000 and to the creation of a Permanent Coordination and Monitoring Framework (PCMF) for IWRM in West Africa by decision of the ECOWAS Conference of Heads of State and Government in December 2001.
The Ministerial Monitoring Committee (MMC): the MMC is made up of the ministers responsible for water resources in the 15 ECOWAS Member States. It is the decision-making and steering body of the PCMF. It meets once every two (02) years;
The Technical Experts Committee (TEC): is made up of focal points who are water resource experts representing the Member States on the one hand, and the West African basin organisations on the other.
The TEC's mission is to assist the MMC in its role of guiding and steering the PCMF.
GWP-WA, represented by its Head of Communication and Knowledge Management, Mr Sidi COULIBALY, took part in the Abuja meetings.
