The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an independent international platform. Its Secretariat is hosted at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Its mission is to promote regional policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of the people in the Sahel and West Africa. SWAC produces and maps data, drafts analyses and facilitates strategic dialogue in order to help policies better anticipate the transformations in the region and their territorial impact. It also promotes regional co-operation and more contextualised policies as a tool for sustainable development and stability. Its current areas of work are food dynamics, cities, environment, and security.
SWAC Members and partners include Austria, Belgium, Canada, CILSS (Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel), the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission, the European Commission, France, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) Commission and the United States. SWAC has a memorandum of understanding with the University of Florida Sahel Research Group.
More information: www.oecd.org/swac, www.africapolis.org, www.mapping-africa-transformations.org