ALTP Project: planning workshops to ensure project ownership by stakeholders

The exercise of the planning workshops organised in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in November 2019, with the authorities concerned and relevant civil society actors, involves analysing the relevance of the activities proposed by the project to fight against human trafficking in the Gulf of Guinea; identifying complementarities with other projects and between stakeholders; setting the priorities; and, finally, proposing deadlines and specific recommendations for an effective implementation of the activities.

The results of this work will make it possible to tailor the project activities to each context, while ensuring that each stakeholder takes ownership of the project. Following these planning workshops, national launch meetings will be organised in each country before an event is held at regional level, which will gather all the partners in Abidjan in the first half of 2020.

A participatory methodology

Each workshop has a short format: one and a half days and a participatory and inclusive methodology. Following a general presentation of the project to fight against human trafficking in the Gulf of Guinea, three working groups are formed to reflect the project components: institutional strengthening, strengthening of the penal chain and protection of victims of human trafficking. Questions concerning regional cooperation are addressed in a crosscutting manner in the three groups. The outcomes of the discussions are subsequently shared in plenary to open up the discussions to all the partners.