BACKGROUND
The Heads of States adopted in June 2007, at the 32nd summit of ECOWAS a new approach to integration, known as "Vision 2020".
The Vision aims at a transformation, by the year 2020, from an "ECOWAS of States" into an "ECOWAS
of peoples". This new vision calls for a more participatory, more democratic and more efficient process of regional integration, in which all sectors and all stakeholders - state and non-state - of all Member States will effectively take
part.
It is in this context that the Heads of State directed the ECOWAS Commission to design an integrated regional
development program, called the "Community Development Program" with the view to implementing Vision 2020.
The ECOWAS Commission retained a strategic orientation and institutional framework around which the CDP should
be developed. Regarding the institutional framework, the establishment of a Coordinator's Office was proposed to serve
as the linchpin for the development of the CDP. As such, a Coordinator was recruited in January 2009 to head the
Office. It is expected that the capacity of the Office will be built to make it more operational and efficient in
accomplishing the tasks it has been assigned.
In fact, the CDP should serve as a reference platform for ensuring coherence of ongoing and future development
programs within the ECOWAS region. Also, given the participatory approach advocated, the development process of
the CDP enjoys the involvement of numerous stakeholders whose contributions need to be coordinated. These include
the departments of the Commission, the member-States, regional civil society, private sector and research
organizations, among others.
Thus, given the immensity of the work and in an effort to ensure the speedy development of the CDP with the desired
effectiveness and efficiency, it is proposed to bolster up the Office of the Coordinator by recruiting consultants to fill the
following positions:
- Four (4) economist-statistician modellers;
- One (1) bilingual specialist in economic communication;
- One (1) webmaster;
- One (1) Administrative Assistant.
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