Intergovernmental organisations and private sector actors from West Africa will discuss the implementation of the AfCFTA in the sub-region

Abstract

Intergovernmental organisations and private sector actors from West Africa will discuss the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the sub-region. This will take place during a virtual regional forum for West Africa co-organized by the Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). This meeting is part of the implementation of the AfCFTA, which entered its operationalization phase on January 1, 2021, thus laying the foundations for a process of strengthening intra-African trade. Its main objective is to strengthen the state of preparedness and the involvement of sub regional actors, in particular the Regional Economic Communities, Intergovernmental Organizations and sub-regional private sector platforms, in the implementation of the AfCFTA.