To facilitate industrialization in the region, ECOWAS regional industrial strategy has identified strategic interventions that must be implemented. To that end, the proposed actions intend to cover interventions pertaining to the development of sustainable value chains, MSMEs and facilitating a platform for dialogue on industrialization between state and private sector, Read more…
Our Technical Implementing Partner, International Trade Centre (ITC) will run a series of online training from 1st March 2021 to 4th October 2021 through the use of ITC’s SME Trade Academy Portal on https://learning.intracen.org/ ITC’s SME Trade Academy offers a series of online courses and access to educational material on Read more…
Part of WACOMP’s mandate is to strengthen the contribution of regional value chains to the growth of West African economies and thereby improve their access to global markets. However, these ambitions cannot be achieved without first strengthening the capacity of enterprises along value chains at national and regional levels and Read more…
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims to create a single market – bringing together the 55 African economies – that would facilitate the movement of goods, services and people across the African continent. Beyond the liberalization of goods and services or the free movement of natural persons and Read more…
As part of the agreed efforts to improve the performance and growth of enterprises in the ECOWAS countries and strengthen the capacity of business support organisations (BSO) in the field of entrepreneurship training under the WACOMP, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the International Training Centre of the Read more…
It has come to our notice that fake job offers are been circulated on behalf of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) by certain individuals/entities claiming they are representatives or subsidiaries or under contract with the Programme. The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) does not: Send job offers to individuals. Read more…
The West Africa Competitiveness Programme has 1 regional Programme and 16 National Components, funded by the European Union and implemented with the support of Technical Partners. In Sierra Leone, the International Trade Center (ITC) supports the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the WACOMP implementation at national level and Read more…
This week, the ECOWAS Commission, with the support of our technical implementing partner, International Trade Centre (ITC), launched another series of e-learning courses in support of Business Support Organizations (BSO) as well as Trade Promotion Organizations (TPO) across West Africa. The e-learning courses will provide access to pragmatic, topical online Read more…
Abuja – 6 October 2020 The United National Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the ECOWAS Commission and the International Training Center of the International Labour Organisation (ITC-ILO) have launched a joint training of trainers to develop a pool of qualified trainers to help support enterprise creation and growth in the West Read more…
WACOMP holds Regional Meeting on Textile and Garments Value Chains Earlier this week, on the 29th of September 2020, WACOMP held a Virtual Regional Meeting on Textile and Garments Value Chains with officials of the ECOWAS, UEMOA, European Union, our technical implementing partners namely United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Read more…
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