ECA Sub - Regional Office for West Africa: newsletter No 03-December 2022

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The Sub-Regional Office for West Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA-SRO/ WA), in collaboration with the Regional Institute of Population Studies (RIPS) and the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), launched on Wednesday in Accra, Ghana, the second edition of its Think Tanks and Experts Seminar on Population Dynamics for Development in West Africa, to be held from September 28 till October 01, in Accra, Ghana. under the theme “Bridging the Research-Policy Gap to Accelerate the Demographic Dividend in West Africa,” the meeting aims to accelerate progress toward the demographic dividend by stimulating policy-oriented research and translation to strengthen evidence-based policy and planning processes in the West African sub-region.