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2023 Budget: ECOWAS seeks parliament’s consideration for displaced citizens
The ECOWAS Commission has appealed the consideration of the ECOWAS Parliament in the budgetary allocation for humanitarian affairs in the 2023 Community draft budget to tackle the needs of 38 million displaced persons in the sub-region.
Prof. Nazifi Darma, Director, Internal Services, ECOWAS Commission made the appeal on behalf of the Commission at the Budget Session of the 2022 2nd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Budget Session of the Parliament will hold at the end of the ECOWAS Administration and Finance Committee (AFC) meeting, to be preceded by the Parliament’s 2022 2nd Ordinary Session on Nov. 28.
The AFC brought before the Parliament the 2023 Community Draft budget to the tune of over Four Hundred and Twenty-Seven Million (427,979,594) Units of Account (UA) for consideration.
Darma said that the West African sub-region is plunged into a huge humanitarian crisis which has affected 38 million people who account for 10 per cent of the sub-region.
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He said that an increased budget allocation to humanitarian affairs and innovative ways of sourcing external funding is required to address the menace.
Darma said that to efficiently address the humanitarian challenges in the sub-region, the ECOWAS Commission is making commitments to making more savings and utilising every resource judiciously.
He said that the resources will be put into programmes and projects that will bring accelerated economic development to Member States and opportunities for the youths who make up 60 per cent of the population.
(NAN)
