Established 2001

Objectives

The MIDWA Process was designed to encourage the ECOWAS Member States to discuss common migration issues and concerns in a regional context for which immediate solutions may not be forthcoming on a national level.

Current Focus

• Border management
• Data collection
• Labour migration
• Irregular migration
• Development
• Remittances
• Migrants' rights
• Trafficking and smuggling
• Return and reintegration

15 Members

Benin Burkina Faso Cape Verde Côte d'Ivoire Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau

Liberia Mali Niger Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Togo

Partner and Observer Institutions

• Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
• International Labour Organization (ILO)
• International Organization for Migration (IOM)
• Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• African Union (AU)
• Union Economique et Monètaire Ouest Africaine (UEMOA)
• UNAIDS
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
• World Food Programme (WFP)

Secretariat

IOM provides support, in consultation with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Planned Meetings for 2012

Previous Meetings

• 7-9 April 2010 Ouagadougou: Protecting People on the Move in the ECOWAS Space – regional training workshop on protection of vulnerable persons in mixed migration flows for governmental and civil society representatives from Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo. Organized by IOM in collaboration with ECOWAS Commission, ILO, OHCHR and UNHCR.
• 4-6 May 2010 Accra: Protecting People on the Move in the ECOWAS Space, vol II, for Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Organized by IOM in collaboration with ECOWAS Commission, OHCHR and UNHCR.

Contact Information

IOM focal point for MIDWA

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