Regional Project

Since 2004, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung appointed the Cotonou Office as the Regional Office in charge of coordinating programmes and projects dealing with the issues of international trade and regional integration.

Through this regional project, the FES aims at accompany its partners in their participation in the process of designing and implementing trade policy and regional integration, thereby enabling them to efficiently contribute to the entrenchment of democracy and social justice.

To attain its goals, the FES Cotonou ensures the organisation, every year, of sub-regional seminars that gather key actors such as the parliamentarians, trade unionists, journalists and other civil society actors.

Please click on the following links, for further information: on our priority areas and strategies, on our activities and publications.

The second component of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung’s regional project in West Africa, which deals with security policy issues, is coordinated from Abuja. For further information, please visit the Abuja Regional Office’s Web Site. More informations here