In its capacity as the official implementing partner of ECOWARN, WANEP Focal Points from the 15 ECOWAS member states, its Zonal Coordinators and regional staff started a biannual meeting with the Early Warning Directorate and Government Focal Point of the ECOWAS Early Warning System – ECOWARN.
The meeting provides opportunity for the stakeholders in ECOWARN to learn from the challenges from the field and improve on the system as well as the skills and technical know-how of the field monitors in order to improve the regional early warning system, ECOWARN. In addition, the Coordination Meeting is a moment to meet physically new field monitors from Government and CSOs and share experiences aimed at making the system more responsive to the communities and institutions it is meant to serve.
In his opening remarks on behalf of the Executive Director of WANEP, Mr. Chukwuemeka Eze – Program Director, observed that in an attempt to increase both the volume and quality of early warning data at community level through to the national, WANEP has put in place a National Early Warning System (NEWS) in each of its national network. NEWS which is at its launching stage and would be full operation in all its national networks by the first quarter of 2012 will be an added value to the ECOWARN. He further stated that after the full operationalization of the NEWS at every national network, WANEP and ECOWAS will discuss modalities and technicalities on streamlining data of the NEWS into ECOWARN. This initiative he stated, will take the contribution of WANEP as the official implementing partner of ECOWARN into another level of improving and institutionalizing the ECOWAS regional early warning system which so far has been serving as reference point and a working model of CSO and inter-governmental institution partnership in the prevention and mitigation of violent conflict across the globe.
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