Nigeria will host the 11th ordinary session of the Committee of Experts (CTE) and the 5th ordinary session of the ministerial committee for the monitoring of IWRM in West Africa (CMS) on Tuesday, 25 June. A meeting organized by the ECOWAS Water Resources Management Center (CGRE)

The IWRM national focal points of the 15 ECOWAS Member States and Basin organizations in the region, the technical and financial partners, the ministers in charge of water resources of the 15 ECOWAS member states will meet for three days in Abuja the statutory meetings of permanent framework for coordination and monitoring (CPCS) of IWRM in West Africa. The holding of the 11th Session of the CTE and the 5th Ordinary Session of the CMS in Abuja aims to give new impetus to the regional IWRM process in West Africa with the main objective of revisiting the regional IWRM process in West Africa and to identify promising work prospects, taking into account the developments recorded at the regional level in water resources management since 2015. These meetings will take place in two stages

The first will be held from 25 to 27 June 2024 and will focus on meetings of the Technical Committee of Experts (CTE). They will focus on the status of implementation of the resolutions of the 4th ordinary session of the ministerial IWRM monitoring committee in West Africa, then the presentation of the 2016-2023 CGRE/ECOWAS activity report, the draft CGRE/ECOWAS 2024 program and budget, the status of implementation of CGRE/ECOWAS, the status of implementation of PREAO and current or planned ECOWAS and partner

The second meeting concerns the ministerial follow-up committee to be held on Friday 28 June. Several files will be studied during this 5th Ordinary Session. These will include the draft CGRE-ECOWAS strategic plan 2020-2030, the draft directive on the development of water infrastructure in West Africa, the draft directive on the management of shared water resources in West Africa; the relaunch of the program to promote new transboundary basin organizations in West Africa; the institutional study for a reform of the CPCS and the operationalization of the Regional Water Observatory.