ECOWAS Economic Empowerment and Development Agency (EEDA)

The ECOWAS Economic Empowerment and Development Agency (EEDA) was established by Regulation C/REG.5/08/01 of August 2001. It was definitively established in Lomé, Togo in October 2002 following a Headquarters Agreement signed on 10 September 2001 between the ECOWAS Commission and the Togolese Authorities.

The EEDA is a specialised ECOWAS agency in charge of the economic empowerment and development of region. Its mission is, among others, to make regional Economic Empowerment and Development projects bankable through the elaboration of feasibility studies (economic, financial, social, environmental, etc.), to mobilise resources for the financing of projects, to strengthen the capacities of national counterpart structures, to promote public-private partnerships, etc.

The priority programmes and projects on which the EEDA is focusing its efforts are the regional economic development master plan which will guide the development of all sectors of the economy for the benefit of the populations within the framework of the implementation of the ECOWAS Vision: that of moving from an ECOWAS of States to an "ECOWAS of Peoples: Peace and Prosperity for All" by 2050

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