On the 10th of December 2025 in Abuja, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Prof. Fatou SOW SARR, Commissioner for Human Development and Social Affairs (DHAS) of the ECOWAS Commission, received Ms Lena KJELLBERG, Head of the Regional Africa Programme at the Folke Bernadotte Academy.
The meeting aimed to strengthen the partnership between the ECOWAS Commission, through the ECOWAS Gender Development Centre (EGDC), and the Folke Bernadotte Academy to reinforce the peace and security architecture in West Africa.
This strategic partnership between the two institutions provides a new collaborative platform that further focuses the reflections and initiatives of both institutions on gender-sensitive processes and approaches in regional peace and security efforts in general, while remaining open to other areas related to gender and development issues in the West African region.
It promotes mutual learning and the exchange of experiences on the different institutional approaches of the EGDC and the FBA in their role in promoting gender equality and peacebuilding in the region.
