MIDWA Experts and Ministerial Meeting

The annual MIDWA meeting includes an Experts Meeting to deliberate upon identified thematic areas and develop comprehensive recommendations to the ECOWAS Commission to be later submitted to the MIDWA Ministerial Meeting for consideration and validation.

MIDWA Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is chaired by the MIDWA host Member State and is comprised of the ECOWAS Commission and the ECOWAS Member States. The Steering Committee provides guidance and impetus to the MIDWA including approving multi-annual action plans, annual work plans and budgets and supervising the work of the MIDWA Secretariat.

 MIDWA Secretariat

The ECOWAS Commission serves as the MIDWA Secretariat. It oversees the overall coordination of the Thematic Working Groups, the programmatic interest of the different sectors of intervention, the creation of synergies between different groups and the representation of the groups during the Steering Committee and MIDWA Experts and Ministerial meetings. The Secretariat is also supported and reinforced by national MIDWA secretariats.

 MIDWA Thematic Working Groups (TWGs)

Eight TWGs were established to be line with the decision to institutionalize the regional dialogue on migration in West Africa and to enhance synergies and promote concrete actions in different sectors of intervention for migration management.
pment (UNHLD) of 2006.