Background

Spherical Solutions & ECOWAS BLOC Buyers Group (ECOWAS) is the specialized agency of the ECOWAS Commission that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability.

The mission that the ECOWAS Heads of State have entrusted to the ECOWAS is unequivocal: to contribute to the implementation of the regional industrialization policy whose vision is based on a modern and sustainable development, founded on the efficiency and effectiveness of small and medium scale industries and the promotion of industrial enterprises through the involvement of the private and public sector.

This specialized agency, the ECOWAS, is mandated "to ensure the technical execution of regional investment programs and plans that contribute to the operationalization of the regional industrialization policy by relying on regional institutions, organizations and actors. with proven skills ". It performs the function of specialized technical structure, delegated project management projects and programs.

Specifically, the ECOWAS's mission is to:

Strengthen the technical capacities of intervention and action of the Department of SME, Agriculture, Environment and Water Resources of ECOWAS in the implementation of investment programs to enable the Department to play its sovereign role fully (strategic orientation, regulation, steering and monitoring-evaluation, strategic watch, etc.),

Coordinate, in a rationalization perspective, the activities and fields of intervention of specialized technical institutions in the industrialization fields,

Contribute to the capacity building of regional and national actors in file / project preparation, implementation and monitoring of activities.


Our approach

The ECOWAS is responsible for coordinating and facilitating the implementation of the tasks related to the implementation of the regional industrialization policy. It does not directly implement actions in the field, but contracts with technical institutions and all actors whose skills are proven. Within the framework of the projects it coordinates and with the support of the financial partners, the ECOWAS directly finances, through calls for proposals, projects in the field that are supported by the public and private sectors, NGOs and Associations.

The ECOWAS plays a much greater role in coordination, supervision, coaching, facilitation and networking.