The Strategic Steering Committee of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) comprising of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania, the European Union (EU), the International Trade Centre (ITC), United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the West African Economic and Read more…
From 14th-24th October 2019, the Lead Business Environment Expert participated in a mission in the region (Nigeria, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, Cape Verde, Senegal, and Burkina Faso) to initiate the development of a regional programme on Enterprise Modernization and Innovation in ECOWAS. The purpose of this mission was to interact with Read more…
To ensure effective implementation, given the overall objectives of WACOMP and the different implementing agencies contributing to the overall project on the regional level, a synergy between the implementing partners is key; This synergy needs to take effect on the launching of WACOMP. Both UNIDO and ITC extensively discussed on Read more…
In an effort to build synergy among country components and programmes, a series of meetings were held between regional and national implementing partners. On the 3rd of May 2019, the UNIDO Technical Coordination Unit Team participated in the launching of the Nigerian Competitive Project (NICOP) held in Abuja. During this Read more…
In the bid to operationalize the regional industrial and private sector strategy, 16 national business environment experts were recruited. These experts were involved in the collection of data on buyers and sellers in WACOMP’s selected value chains, Business Support Organizations (BSOs), Business Training Institutions and Public-Private Partnership’ stakeholders/ projects in Read more…
To support the implementation of the ECOWAS’ MSME strategy and MSME, West Africa Competitiveness and Quality Infrastructure Project came up with various strategies, one of them is to develop a business coaching programme for entrepreneurs at various stages of growth for various target groups (youth, women, social entrepreneurs) to become Read more…
In July 2019, an international PPP specialist was contracted by UNIDO to support the implementation of activities on PPP under the WACOMP project, namely: Identify and liaise with key stakeholders from the public and private sector development finance institutions and other key PPP stakeholders on the national and regional levels. Read more…
From 18th to 21st June 2019, the Community Committee for Conformity Assessment (ECOCONF) held a meeting in Abuja to adopt the five product certification schemes in the framework of the ECOWAS certification Mark. These schemes will be extended to the products of the four selected regional value chains. The meeting Read more…
The Business Environment Manager, Mr. Raffik Feki, Lead Technical Expert, Mr. Simon Armstrong met with the ECOWAS’ commissioner of Industry and Private Sector Promotion to discuss the business environment component of WACOMP, which also lead to further discussions on a new model on regional enterprise innovation and modernization. In Read more…
To improve trade competitiveness in West Africa, WACOMP’s implementing partners underwent a series of technical analysis of various sectors and their value-added potentials to the region. From October 2018 to May 2019, UNIDO and ITC have jointly undertaken a technical analysis of 10 value chains within West Africa and Mauritania Read more…
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