National Quality Award: Burkina Faso awarded its representatives to the ECOWAS Quality Award

26, 27 and 28 July 2016, the Burkinabe Association for Management and Quality (ABMAQ) held in Ouagadougou, an evening awards ceremony of the 5th Burkinabe Quality Award. A ceremony that closed the National Quality days 2016 organized by ABMAQ under the theme: “Burkina 2025: From the effervescence to the emergence through quality and productivity’’.

Mr. Marcel SINKA, PCA of the National Agency of Standardization, Metrology and Quality (ABNORM), the award managing structure, welcomed the presence of Commissioner Kalilou TRAORE among authorities such as: the representatives of the Regional Technical Coordination Unit (RTCU), those of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Trade and the Minister of Public service of Burkina Faso.

It is important to remember that according to the regulation C/REG.17 /12/13 adopting the organizational rules of ECOWAS Quality Award, national quality awards’ organization in the fifteen ECOWAS countries

is a prior. Therefore, it is a step towards the organization of the 1st Edition of the ECOWAS Quality Award, because the national quality awards help to select the participants of the regional awards, who are ultimately the winners of national quality awards. For this edition, the jury awarded Grace Divine, SONAR Assurance and Bank of Africa.

Commissioner’s presence was therefore of a double meaning: symbolically mark the support of the ECOWAS Commission in the organization of national quality award, but also attend an awards ceremony to get a concrete idea of not only the effort expended at national level, but above all, the scale of the task in the context of the organization of the regional award.

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