On Thursday, November 28, the President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Commission, Abdoulaye Diop and the institution's collaborators met with technical and financial partners in Ouagadougou.

The meeting between the President of the UEMOA Commission and the technical and financial partners is part of the exchanges and consultations that the institution has with its partners. The aim is to take stock of their collaboration and the progress of integration in the West African subregion. The body allowed the UEMOA commission to provide partners with a summary of the implementation of projects with external funding. This general background was followed by two presentations on the sub-themes: “UEMOA economic model and resilience” and “Prospects for deepening regional integration in the face of exogenous shocks”. A brief overview was given of the macroeconomic and security situation in the Union

With regard to the state of cooperation with the community of technical and financial partners, the Commissioner in charge of the Regional Market and Cooperation Department, Prof. Filiga Michel Sawadogo indicates that “thanks to the support, the Commission is implementing a number of regional projects and programmes of an estimated total amount & agrave; 166 billion CFA francs in several areas, in particular regional statistics with a major project financed by the World Bank and which focuses on the harmonization and improvement of statistics in West and Central Africa; air transport in Central and Western Africa financed by the African Development Bank; land use planning with three major programs financed by the European Union and cooperation Swiss ration in the field of cross-border cooperation and decentralization; vocational training with the regional project for vocational training in the UEMOA area supported by Swiss cooperation; trade facilitation with support from the World Bank as part of the regional program for trade facilitation in West Africa