Sahel and West Africa Club/OECD Economic Community of West African States Agenda Workshop on the Appropriation, Dissemination and Implementation of Regional Instruments and Endogenous Democratic Governance and Conflict Prevention Mechanisms in West Africa Dakar & Saly, Senegal 16-19 October 2007 with the participation of the Women s Group and the Youth Coordination Group of West Africa With the financial support of:
Schedule of sessions Tuesday 16 October OPENING CEREMONY PAYING TRIBUTE TO SALIOU KANDJI, AFRICAN HISTORIAN 9.00 10.00 Welcome of participants SESSION CHAIRED BY THE MINISTER REPRESENTING THE GOVERNMENT OF SENEGAL, represented by the Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Senegal, Dr. Cheikh Tidiane GADIO 10.00 11.00 Message by the organisers and partners. Presentation of the workshop s objectives: - The workshop s issues and objectives by Mr. Massaër DIALLO, Head of the Governance, Conflict Dynamics, Peace and Security Unit of the Sahel and West Africa Club/OECD Partners interventions: Mr. José MONTABES, Deputy Director CIDA (Canada) Mr. Jean-Marc GRAVELLINI, Director AFD-Senegal (France) Mr. Boubacar ISSA ABDOURHAMANE, Representative of the OIF Colonel Yoro KONE, Director of Early Warning, ECOWAS 11.00 12.00 Tribute to Saliou Kandji, (deceased 27 August 2006), Former Ambassador of Senegal, Historian and humanist, endeavoured to clarify the role of women Mr. Babacar SEDIKH DIOUF, Traditionalist, representative of the Elders Mrs Bintou SANANKOUA, for West Africa Women s Group Mr. Babacar DIOP, President of PALAE, for the Researchers Dr. Cheikh Tidiane GADIO, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the Senegalese government Mr. Massaër DIALLO, Sahel and West Africa Club/ SWAC Mr. Mody NDIAYE for the Youth 12.00 Press Conference Elections and Conflict Prevention 13.15 14.45 Lunch 15.30 Participants departure for Saly
Wednesday 17 October 8.30 18.00 FIRST SESSION: Conflict prevention How to appropriate, disseminate as well as contribute to the implementation of instruments and mechanisms? ECOWAS Mechanism 8.30 9.00 Opening Statement: ECOWAS Crisis Resolution, Management and Prevention Mechanisms as an instrument in building peace in West Africa, by Colonel Yoro KONE, Director of the ECOWAS Early Warning/Observation Monitoring Centre 9.00 10.30 Discussions and Recommandations 10.30 10.45 Coffee Break Endogenous Mechanisms and other initiatives 10.45 11.15 Preventative Strategies Recommended by the International Organisation of French-speaking Countries (Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie), by Mr. Boubacar ISSA ABDOURHAMANE, OIF 11.15 11.45 Presentation of an endogenous crisis prevention mechanism and political regulation: Charter of Mande (Charter of Kurukan Fuga), by Mr. Mangoné NIANG, Director of CELTHO, African Union, Niger 11.45 12.15 Civil Society and the ECOWAS Convention on Small Arms and Light Weapons in Conflict Prevention: experiences of the Movement against Small Arms and Light Weapons in West Africa 1, Mrs. Christiane AGBOTON, MALAO, Senegal 12.15 13.15 Discussions and recommandations 13.15 14.30 Lunch 1 Mouvement contre les Armes légères et de petits calibres en Afrique de l Ouest
14.30 17.00 WORKSHOPS Operationalisation of the Approach and Prevention Systems Worshop 1 : - What are the strategies and dissemination activities for a preventative approach? Workshop 2 : - What are the complementarities and synergies between institutional, social, political, and development partner actors in the implementation of prevention instruments? 17.00 18.00 Restitution of the work of workshops 1 and 2 carried out in plenary session ***
Thursday 18 October 8.30 18.00 SECOND SESSION: Governance and Democracy How to ensure dissemination and implementation of instruments and mechanisms? Regional Instruments and Mechanisms of in West Africa 8.30 9.00 Place and role of the 2001 ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol on Democracy and Good Governance in the promotion of democracy and governance in West Africa, by Mr. Massaër DIALLO, SWAC/OECD 9.30 10.30 Discussions and Recommendations 10.30 10.45 Coffee Break African Union Instruments 10.45 11.15 Presentation of the Charter on Governance and Elections, by Mr. Babaly SALL, Director of UFR Political Science, University of Saint-Louis, Senegal 11.15 11.45 Presentation of the African Youth Charter, Mr. Efem UBI, Nigeria, Department of Research and Studies, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Nigeria 11.15 13.30 Discussions 13.30 15.00 Lunch 15.00 17.00 Clarification of the work to be carried out in the two Workshops: Workshop 3: - Implementation and Dissemination of the ECOWAS Supplementary Protocol Workshop 4: - Regional instruments and electoral dynamics 17.00 18.00 Restitution of work carried out in plenary session
Friday 19 October 8.30 18.00 THIRD SESSION: Promotion of Women s Rights Promotion Instruments of Women s Rights in West Africa 8.30 9.00 Presentation of the Protocol on Women s Rights Supplementary to the African Charter on Human and People s Rights, Mrs. Ecoma ALAGA, Women Peace and Security Network Africa (WIPSEN-Africa), Ghana 9.00 10.00 Discussions 10.00 10.15 Coffee Break 10.15 13.00 FOURTH SESSION: Conclusions and Perspectives 10.15 11.30 Preparation of the work s summation 11.30 12.30 Discussion and adoption of the summary 12.30 13.00 Conclusions and Follow-up 13.00 14.30 Lunch End of Work 15.30 Participants Departure for Dakar 15.00 18.30 Internal meeting 2 on the Functioning of the Women s Group and the Youth Coordination Group s Strategy 2 This meeting only concerns members of the Women s Group and the Youth Coordination Group.