A 3-day workshop was organized in this month of May on the date of 15 to 17. It was organized by the ECOWAS Center for Gender Development (CCDG) and brought together experts from ECOWAS, COMESA (Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa), EAC (East African Community), women users of the 50MAWSP platform and partners such as the Spanish Cooperation, the African Development Bank (

The joint workshop joint workshop of ECOWAS, COMESA and EAC is part of the objective of validating the new functionalities proposed to reinvigorate the 50MAWSP platform. These are the improvement of the user interface and the user experience, the improvement of the content and promotion of the platform, the improvement of the networking functions of the platform, and the improvement of the analysis functions of the platform. The work also focused on the study and validation of the terms of reference for the recruitment of a firm responsible for evaluating the first phase of the 50MAWSP digital networking platform project and identifying ways to make the platform autonomous and capable of self-financing during the second phase of the

The three implementing partners of the 50MAWSP project signed the Workshop Outcome Document which summarizes the points of agreement between CERs for the next steps for the implementation of the project at the end of the workshop's work.