About RAO
Mobilise and strengthen the capacities of countries in West Africa to support and protect children/youth on the move in vulnerable situation, ensuring their sustainable socio-professional reintegration
Connect state and Civil Society Organization (CSO) child protection systems in West Africa to better identify, protect, reintegrate and monitor children/youth moving between countries in the sub-region
WAN has developed a quality approach, which consists of focusing all efforts on the child and including him/her in all stages of his/her care, in order to guarantee his/her maximum interest and to make the best decisions for his/her future with his/her participation
Contribute to the protection of children/youth made vulnerable by their transnational mobility in West Africa, through their individualized reintegration and prevention activities
Mobilise and network actors at the national, regional and transnational level
Contribute to the collaboration and cooperation between national child protection system
Implement a harmonized ECOWAS support procedures and standards
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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