The MIDWA is organized based on a multi-year program outlining all relevant activities and lead topics. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Free movement of persons within ECOWAS;
• Promoting regular migration between ECOWAS and other sub-regions;
• Labour migration;
• Border management;
• Migration and development;
• Gender and migration;
• Migration and security;
• Migration data;
• Protection of migrations and their families;
• Mixed migration;
• Migration and security;
• Migration and health;
• Irregular migration and counter-trafficking;
• Climate change, environment and migration.