Lomé, Togo — 2 June 2026: On 3 and 4 June 2026, Lomé, Togo, will host a High-Level Regional Dialogue on Conflict Prevention in the Gulf of Guinea — a landmark convening that will bring together over 60 participants, mostly senior government officials, regional institutions, UN leadership and development partners to translate a shared prevention agenda into concrete and lasting action.

Co-convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the High-Level Regional Dialogue is a decision-oriented platform designed to move beyond analysis to concrete, politically backed commitments.

The Gulf of Guinea — spanning Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Togo — faces a rapidly converging set of threats. Violent extremism, transnational organised crime, maritime piracy, illicit trafficking, farmer–herder conflicts intensified by climate change, and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons are creating a self-reinforcing cycle of insecurity that no single country can address in isolation.

Structured around facilitated roundtable discussions, the two-day Dialogue will address the systemic interlinkages between rural insecurity, illicit economies, displacement dynamics and coastal vulnerabilities.

A defining moment of the Dialogue will be the formal joint launch of the Prevention Facility for the Gulf of Guinea (2026–2029) — the sub-region's first integrated, development-driven conflict prevention platform.
By the close of the Dialogue, participants are expected to have adopted a jointly developed Regional Prevention Roadmap with clearly identified priorities and implementation entry points across the five countries; as well as made concrete political commitments to advance a coordinated, governance-led and development-driven prevention agenda.

The participants will include senior ministers and government officials, representatives of ECOWAS and key regional institutions, heads and senior leadership of UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral development and financial partners, peacebuilding, governance and civil society stakeholders.

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Jacob Enoh Eben | Head of Communications | UNDP Sub-Regional Hub for West and Central Africa
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Emile Kenkou | Chargé de Communications | PNUD Togo | emile.kenkou@undp.org | Tel: +228 91 72 08
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Dan Vieira Da Costa | Spécialiste en communication | PNUD WACA & Sénégal | danvieira.
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