The PATTEC Coordination office represented by A.g. Coordination, Dr Gift Wanda, has participated on workshop aimed at Strengthening National Planning in the Formulation and Implementation of Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Intervention Programmes in member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The Workshop was held on 24 – 28 April 2017, in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso and it was organised by IAEA in collaboration with PATTEC-Burkina Faso, AU-PATTEC and FAO. The major output of this workshop was the identification of a regional project. The workshop undertook to draft the regional project which will be finalised in due course.