The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is organizing a regional awareness-raising workshop on the implementation of the new regional road safety policy, the action plan and the community road safety charter.

ECOWAS, through the Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Digitization, announces the organization of a workshop in Accra, Ghana, this week regional awareness-raising on the implementation of the new ECOWAS policy, action plan and road safety charter. Management of the ECOWAS Commission, road safety experts from member states' ministries and agencies, and key partners such as the African Union, ECA, ADB, SSATP-World Bank, African Road Safety Organization (ARSO), and Fed West African engineering organizations are, among others, the expected participants in the 2-day workshop.

Indeed, the new ECOWAS road safety policy, charter, action plan and monitoring and evaluation (M&E) framework developed by the Directorate of the Department of Transport Infrastructures, as part of its technical assistance project on transport governance in West Africa, were approved at the 60th summit of With this new policy and charter, the Commission wishes to intensify its work with the Member States and the development partners to improve road safety in the region, which is one of the main themes and key activities planned under the ECOWAS technical assistance project for transport governance, jointly funded by the cooperation agreement with the European Union and its financial counterparts in ECOWAS.