The E-Commerce and Digital Economy Branch of UNCTAD is organising a second briefing for Permanent Missions of ECOWAS Member States in Geneva on the Regional E-commerce Strategy Development Project. The objective of this meeting is to provide an update on the project, in particular with regard to the validation of the strategy during the 5^th Regional Meeting on the development of the ECOWAS E-commerce Strategy on 20-21 March in Accra, Ghana.

As a background document, UNCTAD had prepared the eTrade Readiness Assessment of Member States of the Economic Community of West African States in 2022. The Regional E-commerce Strategy Development Project in ECOWAS is supported by the Government of the Netherlands as part of UNCTAD’s eT Ready Implementation Support Mechanism (ISM).