Supporting ECOWAS Member States to Implement Harmonized Regional Fertilizer Regulations: Cases in Niger and Cape Verde
The Enhancing Growth through Regional Agricultural Input Systems (EnGRAIS) project for West Africa continues to support ECOWAS Member States in implementing Regulation C/REG.13/12/12 to regulate fertilizer quality across the region through strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and governments. For almost three years, EnGRAIS has worked consistently on national fertilizer sector reform and advocated for the publication of the regional regulation in official national gazettes.
EnGRAIS has provided strong backstopping and technical support to the Niger Fertilizer Sector Reform Project (PARSEN), funded by the Millennium Challenge Corporation/Millennium Challenge Account (MCA), to develop, review, and adopt country-specific fertilizer supporting regulations and facilitated a workshop for members of the National Committee for Fertilizer Control and represent