Notice of Recruitment by ECOWAS on Food Crisis Management

By ElombahNews On Aug 20, 2015

The European Union (EU) is willing to support ECOWAS in the implementation of a Regional Food Security Reserve (RRSA), intended only for emergency operations

in the event of food crises.

The project aims to support ECOWAS in the implementation of its regional food security strategy storage, based on complementarily and subsidiary between three lines of defense to address these repetitive food crises:

1. Locally-held stocks,

2. National food stocks, and finally,

3. A regional strategy for food security for regional solidarity to play in a major food crisis.

The project, funded by the European Union will be implemented through a centralized management between the French Development Agency and the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development.

It is within this framework of setting up the project that ECOWAS is seeking to recruit the following 7 positions: