Objective

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Sub-Regional Office for West Africa in partnerships with the Consortium Régional pour la Recherche en Economie Générationnelle (CREG) is organizing a REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON DEMOGRAPHIC DIVIDEND SENSITIVE BUDGETING (DDSB) on 4 – 7 July 2023 in Niamey, Niger on “Alignment of the Demographic Dividend Monitoring Index (DDMI) to the functional budget and performing the budget sensitivity analysis” to build capacity of five selected Member States, i.e. Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger, Togo, and Senegal in assessing the investments needed for capturing the demographic dividend.

This regional hands-on technical workshop will allow the finalization of the remaining technical step of the DDSB process and follows the regional capacity building workshop held in Cotonou, Benin on 22-26 May 2023 on the Retropolation of the DDMI for the period 2001-2020 for the above Member States.