Recent multilateral meetings have been preoccupied with the idea of establishing and sustaining Peace in our difficult world.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is holding a decentralized meeting in Banjul, The Gambia, on the topic of Community texts relating to peace, security, democracy, and good governance: challenges in their implementation and the oversight role. This is taking place against the backdrop of ongoing efforts to dissect the ECOWAS Framework for lasting peace in the subregion.
of the ECOWAS Parliament, from August 16 until August 20, 2022.
Three of the fourteen Standing Committees of the ECOWAS Parliament, consisting of the following: Committees on Political Affairs, Peace, Security, and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM); Legal Affairs and Human Rights; Social Affairs, Gender, and Women Empowerment; constitute the Joint Committee that will be meeting, according to a statement provided to THE AUTHORITY by the ECOWAS Parliament’s Communication Department.
According to the statement, the purpose of the conference is to keep Parliamentarians up to date on the specifics of the ECOWAS Agreement on Peace and Security. It is intended that by doing this, they will be able to take ownership and be better prepared for their upcoming supervisory responsibilities.
The primary goal of the meeting is to provide the Joint Committee’s members a chance to become acquainted
the ECOWAS documents on democracy, good governance, and peace and security, and commit themselves to them.
governance, as well as determine the ideal control mechanism for its efficient use inside the Member states. “
It is important to remember that since its founding on May 28, 1975, ECOWAS has ratified a sizable number of texts aimed at maintaining and promoting peace and regional security as well as preventing, managing, and/or resolving conflicts within the Community.
However, efforts to successfully deploy these Community Texts have revealed a number of obvious difficulties.
As a result, the effect of these texts on enhancing the environment and climate for security and good governance
is insufficiently apparent inside the ECOWAS region, the statement said.
There are 115 seats in the ECOWAS Parliament. A minimum of five seats are guaranteed for each Member State. The remaining forty seats are allocated according to how many people live in each nation.
Therefore, Nigeria holds 35 seats overall, followed by Ghana (8 seats) and Côte d’Ivoire (7 seats), respectively. Benin, Cabo Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo each receive five seats, while Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Senegal receive six apiece.
