Intra-African Talent Mobility Partnership Project

This project commenced in 2014 when ACET was engaged by the World Bank to act as the West-Africa secretariat for the Intra-African Talent Mobility program. The project sought to establish a “Schengen” type mechanism for the movement of talent within Africa. Over the past few years, the West-Africa Program – composed of Benin, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Sierra Leone have been working towards the development of a framework agreement (MoU) covering priority areas to ease the movement of skilled persons across their countries. In 2016, countries concluded capacity building workshops and signed the MoU on the sidelines of the ECOWAS annual meeting in December. In the presence of the President of ECOWAS and other government representatives, countries committed to implementing a number of recommendations as stipulated in the MoU’s schedule of commitment. The Government of Cote d’Ivoire, together with ACET have taken the lead in 2017 to seek further funding to operationalize the activities in the pilot countries.