Annual report November 2022–October 2023

Abstract

The annual report of the Subregional Office for West Africa of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) includes highlights of the main achievements of the Subregional Office since the twenty-fifth session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts for West Africa. The Subregional Office implemented its programme of work against a difficult backdrop, marked by multiple challenges, including the socioeconomic repercussions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the climate crisis. The crises are undermining the efforts of States to respond to the need to accelerate harnessing the demographic dividend and represent a threat to the realization, by means of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, of inclusive and transformational development that takes climate change into consideration against that backdrop of multidimensional crises, but also of opportunities, the Subregional Office implemented its programme of work, in accordance with its mandate, and achieved several positive results for its members. The results are highlighted in the present activity report, along with the challenges that were encountered, and the steps taken to respond to them, along with the outlook for the future.