AHSI Partners

 

West Africa Network for Peacebuilding

 

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is a non-profit membership organization with the goal of facilitating coalition building among conflict prevention and Peacebuilding organizations and practitioners in West Africa. Its core objectives include the following:

• Strengthen the capability of peacebuilding organizations and practitioners in West Africa to engage actively in the peaceful transformation of violent conflicts.
• Increase awareness on the use of non-violent strategies in responding to conflicts in West Africa.
• Develop a conflict prevention network to monitor, report, and offer indigenous perspectives and understanding on conflicts in West Africa.
• Harmonize peacebuilding activities in West Africa through networking and coordination of WANEP members.
• Create a forum for mutual sharing and harmonization of human rights and Peacebuilding activists and practitioners in West Africa.

Core programs include:

• West Africa Peacebuilding Institute, an annual training and research institute which encourages research and learning among Peacebuilding practitioners in West Africa.
• Active Non-violence and Peace Education with the aim of promoting peace and social reconciliation in schools.
• Justice Lens Project focuses on the relationship of justice and Peacebuilding looking at transitions in West Africa
• West Africa Early Warning and Response Network reporting on conflict and human security issues in West Africa and mobilizing concerted and informed responses.
• Women in Peacebuilding Network focuses on the development of women‚s capacities and compentency to participate in peace processes in West Africa.

WANEP has 300 member organizations in 16 countries including Chad and Cameroon. It is governed by an Annual General Assembly that meets once a year, an Advisory Council that advises on policy direction and an Executive Board that supervises the Management Team.

WANEP has permanent offices in 6 countries and has won a USAID grant to increase the offices to ten countries: Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal, the Gambia, Togo, Nigeria, Cote d‚Ivoire, and Guinea. The Regional Secretariat is based in Accra, Ghana.