Cotonou: Constitutive/First Meeting of the Economic Governance Working Group

Cotonou: Constitutive/First Meeting of the Economic Governance Working Group: The meeting took place in Cotonou, capital of Benin Republic, on 5^th December 2016 with participants from Nigeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Benin, the host. The meeting, while deliberating on its mandate of making OTUWA and important prop for harnessing and mobilising the energies of workers and their organisations in influencing policy dialogue at the sub-regional and other levels to realize governance mechanisms, processes and outcomes that have positive implications for the working people, identified a number of issues relevant to combating food insecurity and hunger in West Africa, in particular and Africa in general.