Our UNDP WACA 2022 Annual Report explores the intricate nature of our work in 24 countries, where we continue to see glimmers of optimism in several communities through some of our combined efforts.

This UNDP WACA Annual Report 2021 details our work with partners in promoting economic recovery, supporting efforts to stabilize parts of the Sahel deep in crisis, and creating conditions for realizing the SDGs and the AU’s Agenda 2063 across the sub-region.

This non-paper aims to refocus attention on the invaluable role that the justice dimension plays in any holistic reflection on the governance challenges in the Sahel.

Explore the unprecedented opportunities as well as significant risks brought on by digitalization and its linkages to governance in Africa.

Global socioeconomic circumstances continue to change and evolve, necessitating reactive and proactive adjustment of economic governance frameworks. In the short and medium term, governance modifications are triggered by new and episodic factors. The current relevant factors include the COVID 19 pandemic, and the ‘cost of living crisis’, the later partly caused by the 2022 Russia-Ukraine war, which has disrupted supplies of fuel, food and fertiliser, amongst other things. Megatrends in regional and global production, consumption and economics give rise to new governance components and indicators, which are added to revised and updated implementation, monitoring and review mechanisms. This evolutionary pattern applies to the Sahel as its takes place regionally and globally.

This non-paper outlines the critical context and insights within which constitutionalism operates in the Sahel.