AGoSE provides ECOWAS Member States (MS) with a wide range of tools and capacity building activities aiming to achieve multiple policy objectives, including the harmonization of regulatory frameworks, reginal integration, improving the investment climate, promoting energy access, supporting the transition to clean and sustainable energy economies and implementing energy efficiency.

The Energy Charter Secretariat has been supporting ECOWAS under the AGoSE program since the spring of 2019, as part of the formal cooperation between the Secretariat and the ECOWAS Energy Commission. The Secretariat has provided support to ECOWAS MS through a range of technical assistance activities, including knowledge workshops in the region and the hosting of ECOWAS MS officials in Brussels through the Secretariat’s secondment program. Bearing in mind the ongoing cooperation, the Secretariat will provide further support to ECOWAS MS in November 2021 by co-hosting the ECOWAS-Energy Charter Regional Energy Governance Forum and Training Program. This in-person capacity building activity will take place in Cotonou, Benin, from 15-25 November 2021 and will be hosted by the government of the Republic of Benin.

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