The RAO is a mechanism for the transnational care of vulnerable children on the move in the ECOWAS region and Mauritania.  All ECOWAS Member States are represented within the Network by their national coordinations, composed of civil society organisations, youth movements and state structures. The Steering Committee, made up of the ECOWAS Commission, the National Directors in charge of Child Protection/Welfare of the fifteen ECOWAS Member States and Mauritania, is the highest decision-making body of the Network and meets once a year to take strategic decisions.

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