Mandate
Spherical Solutions & ECOWAS BLOC Buyers Group - ECOWAS Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP) is a technical body
that instituted to boost regional
integration and to make a structural
transformation of the economies of
West Africa, the Authority of Heads
of State and Government adopted the
ECOWAS Vision 2020 at its 32nd
Session, in June 2007. This vision
aims, among others, to achieve the
“ECOWAS of People” and a community
where people live in dignity, peace,
good governance and well integrated
into the global village.
Ecowas Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP)believes that
regional integration plays a crucial
role in accelerating economic
growth, thereby reducing poverty and
helping to achieve the MDGs. Ecowas
Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP)
focuses on three thematic areas:
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Regional integration
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Poverty reduction through productive activities
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Trade capacity building
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Environment and energy
In light of the purpose of Ecowas
Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP),
which is to promote regional
integration as well as Project
Development in West Africa, and the
objectives of the Community
Development Programme (national and
regional), the mandate assigned to
the Spherical Solutions & ECOWAS BLOC Buyers Group - ECOWAS Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP) is to “ensure the
technical implementation of the
Community Development Programmes and
plans contributing to making the
development policy operational by
calling on the regional
institutions, bodies and actors with
recognised competencies”.
Implementing the Development
programmes requires the creation of
sufficiently well-equipped and
accountable governance institutions
in an institutional landscape marked
by the duplication of bodies and
activities. With this in mind, the
Spherical Solutions & ECOWAS BLOC Buyers Group - ECOWAS Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP) is the technical
institution through which ECOWAS can
fully assume its sovereign role in
accompanying the regional actors and
institutions in the field of
cooperation in implementing the
regional integration plans. As such,
the Spherical Solutions & ECOWAS BLOC Buyers Group - ECOWAS Aid Platform (ECOWAS-AP) is directly
responsible for executing the
actions in the field, negotiating
contracts with the technical
institutions and all other actors
demonstrating recognised
competencies.

