In partnership with the Ghana Trade Fair Company, WACOMP Ghana organised a conference on the competitiveness of the cosmetics sector in Ghana. The objective of the conference was to sensitize...

Supporting the production, processing and marketing of commodities can strengthen the competitiveness of West African countries. Guinea has chosen to prioritize the pineapple sector to strengthen...

Within the framework of the national component of WACOMP in Sierra Leone, UNIDO organized a series of training on standards and quality management systems. A total of about 100 representatives...

The ECOWAS Community Metrology Committee (ECOMET) held the first meeting of its Technical Committees on Awareness, Legal Metrology and Thermometry on 23 and 24 January in Dakar, Senegal.
The...

West Africa's competitiveness cannot be considered without covering quality aspects along a value chain. In February 2020, UNIDO deployed 47 national experts throughout ECOWAS to collect existing...

The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP), funded by the European Union, aimed at improving the performance, growth and contribution to industry, regional trade, exports of selected value...

Abuja, 15 June 2020 - The West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) takes another step forward with the launch of its official website. This new platform will allow users to keep abreast of...

Mr. Christophe Yvetot | UNIDO Representative for Senegal, Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Mauritania, reiterated this during a teleconference organized by the Senegalese Association for...

UNIDO’s Department of Digitalization, Technology and Innovation (DTI) announces a special series of ISO/UNIDO webinars on “Countering the Impacts of COVID-19 with International Standards”. The...

Commissioner Mamadou Traoré (see list of speakers below) will participate as a speaker in this webinar, which is part of a series of webinars that UNIDO is organizing as part of its contribution...