OVERVIEW
USAID SRPS is a five-year program that supports the efforts of West Africans to address the risk of instability from conflict through targeted conflict and violence prevention, peacebuilding, and preventing and countering violent extremism (P/CVE) interventions across the West Africa region. SRPS will build the capacity of critical institutions, and work with willing partners to enhance political will and domestic resources that can enable lasting peace, stability, and ultimately, prosperity. SRPS will also help advance the priorities of the U.S. Strategy on Women, Peace and Security (WPS) such as enhancing women's leadership and participation in all aspects of governance, conflict prevention, stabilization, and peacebuilding.
SRPS will prioritize transnational, transboundary, and multi-country issues that support coordinated, demand-driven programs and services to government counterparts, nongovernmental partners, bilateral USAID missions and offices, and U.S. Embassies. At the regional level, SRPS engages with regional partners, such as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), among others. Initial bilateral interventions are planned for: Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger and Burkina Faso. For the first two years of program implementation, SRPS will prioritize conflict prevention activities such as strengthening the capacity of regional institutions and of governments to effectively address vulnerability factors and the risks of instability, including governance challenges; strengthening social cohesion across select communities in target countries; women, peace and security interventions; addressing cross-border conflicts such as farmer-herders and transhumance; and strengthening information integrity and resilience (IIR).