ECOWAS has held a Ministerial Conference on its 50 years of promoting gender equality and Women’s Empowerment in West Africa on the sidelines of the CSW69 in New York.
Review and appraisal of the implementation of the Bei-jing Declaration and Platform for Action and the outcome of the 23rd special session of the General Assembly’ is the priority theme of the Commission on the Status of Women, commonly known as the CSW, which is being held from 10 to 21 March 2025 at the United Nations headquarters in New York (USA).
On the sidelines of the event, the ECOWAS Commission’s Department of Human Development and Social Affairs organized on 11th of March in New york, USA, a high-level interactive session under the theme “ECOWAS: 50 years of promoting gender equality and empowering women and girls for sustainable development and effective regional integration in West Africa” with ECOWAS gender ministers, in collaboration with UN Women’s Regional Office for West and Central Africa (UN Women) and the governments of ECOWAS member countries.
Technical and financial partners and Civil Society Organizations such as the West African Network of Young Women Leaders (ROAJEF) were also present.