The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, member states, development partners and Civil Society actors, have agreed for the implementation of an updated Regional Action Plan with milestones, targets and deadlines for Road safety activities from the first quarter of 2023.

 

The regional body through the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization had organized a two-day regional sensitization workshop on the implementation of the new ECOWAS Road Safety Policy, Action Plan and Charter in Accra, Ghana.

The new ECOWAS Road Safety Policy, Charter, Action Plan, and Monitoring and Evaluation Framework prepared under the Regional Transport Governance for West Africa Technical Assistance Project with financing support from the European Union, was approved at the sixtieth summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government on twelfth December, 2021.

 

In his welcome address, the ECOWAS Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy and Digitalization, Mr. Sediko Douka whose speech was read by the Acting Director, Transport, Mr. Chris Appiah, told participants that the main objective of the workshop is to seek the buy-in of Member States, Stakeholders and Partners on the newly approved Regional Road Safety Policy, Charter, and its Action Plan.