ECOWAS WARNING AND RESPONSE NETWORK (ECOWARN): AN EVOLVING SYSTEM FOR

PEACE AND SECURITY

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Early Warning Early Action Burkina Faso16 September 2019

Presented by: Abdoulaye MAIGA, Analyst in Security ( Terrorism, Violent extremism and

Maritime security)

Content

I. What are the main current and planned activities in Burkina Faso of your Organisation

and your partners, related to Early Warning and Conflict Prevention?

II. How do these activities relate to early warning and conflict prevention?

III. What were the main considerations leading to this particular choice of activities? (Why

those activities and not others; what are main restrictions, etc)

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I. The ECOWAS activities related in EW/CP in Burkina Faso : the main current

Capacity building on

ANALYSIS of Staff

of National Early

Warning Center in

Burkina Faso (7-9

August 2019)

I. Assessment

Activity 1: Formulate hypotheses

(vulnerabilities); compare with the data

Activity 2: Articulate the hypothesis (risks);

compare with the data

Activity 3: Build a map of the stakeholder

network

Activity 4: Identify Social / Institutional

Resilience Factors

II. Introduce an analytical framework

Activity 5: Describe the human security

situation (1 page summary)

Activity 6: Articulating Trends

Activity 7: Actors, Resources and Motivations

Activity 8: Scenarios - Best, Worst, Most

Probable Cases

III. Gender and Early Warning

Products

Applying a gender perspective in

early warning and response/

Applying a gender perspective in

evaluation and analysis

Activity 9: Describe the impact of

the human security situation on

women, girls, men and boys

Activity 10: Gender and the

mitigation of the human security

situation

Activity 11: Gender Integration

(Actors, Resources, Motivations)

Activity 12: Gender Integration

(Scenarios)

IV. Review of examples of early

warning products

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I. The ECOWAS activities related in EW/CP in Burkina Faso : the main current

I. Exchange of Informations

with the Early Warning

National Center in Burkina

Faso

II. Monitoring the socio-political

situation and diplomatic

activities: ECOWAS permanent

Representation

Other ECOWAS structures in

Burkina Faso:

➢ The Youth and Sports

Development Center

➢ Water Resources

Coordination Unit

➢ West African Health

Organization

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Ecowas Vice president took part to the

first meeting of the Advisory and

Orientation Council of the National

Early Warning and Response Center

was held on August 8, 2019 in

Ouagadougou,

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I. The ECOWAS activities related in EW/CP in Burkina Faso : the planned

activities

Collaboration with WAEMU

And G5 Sahel Early Warning

Centers

Capacity Building

Thematic Field mission

Support to National

Center for the upcoming

Election (monitoring)

Simulation exercise

The 15 Components of the ECPF reflect the importance of combining Operational and Structural Conflict Prevention in planning interventions in Member States

II. The Link between ECOWAS activities and EW/CP related in EW/CP

RESPONSES STRUCTURES ECOWAS

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Response

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All actions identified through Early

Warning Analysis process in order to prevent or mitigate breach to human

security

Sectorial or holistic

Instantaneously, short and Long

term

Individually or collectively

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Reasons :

❖ Double mutation of

ECOWARN:

new thematic based on

human security;

❖ Decentralization to

the States of the

early warning

system.

• Drug/Human Trafficking and Organized Crime/Cyber Criminality/Migration

Crime & Criminality

• Terrorism, Violent Extremism/Maritime Security

Security

• Political Governance/Elections/ Youth bulge/Unemployment/ Gender

Governance & Human Rights

• Epidemics/Pandemics/Public Health Infrastructure

Health

• Climate Change and Natural disasters/Food security/Transhumance/ Land tenure

Environment

III. The reasons behind the choice of the activities and the restrictions

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III. The reasons behind the choice of the activities and the restrictions

Restrictions/Challenges :

The confidential nature of

certain national information

: diversification of sources (

Permanent

Representation/Field

Monitors)

Geospatial correlation/ Data gap

GAP BETWEEN

ALERT &

RESPONSE

NCCRM IN BURKINA FASO

Deploy Early Warning

to the National Level

NCCRM

NCCRM: National Centre

for the Coordination of the

Response Mechanism

ResponseAlert

Mandate of the Centre• In order to reduce the gap between alert and response, the centre, in

collaboration with State services and ECOWAS, is mandated to:

• To alert Government of potential threats on populations, to proposeappropriate responses to the threats identified, in turn identify responsestructures (both at the level of the State, civil society, communities,development partners, etc.), to facilitate, coordinate, and monitor theimplementation of response related activities.

• Member States instruct through an Executive Order all competent publicservices at the national and regional levels to regularly submit all data,information and records on issues related to human security at the NationalCentre for the Coordination of the response mechanism.

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