The Transport Directorate of the ECOWAS Commission is hosting a 3-day technical validation
workshop for the Detailed Design Study (DDS) of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway in
Lagos, Nigeria, from Wednesday, 11th September to Friday, 13th September 2024.
The Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project (ALCHDP) aims to construct a 6-lane
dual carriage highway from Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire, through Ghana, Togo, Benin to Lagos in
Nigeria. The five Corridor Countries have entrusted the ECOWAS Commission as the
Implementing Agency in the interim, to design, procure, mobilize financing and construct the
Highway. In the long term, a supra-national Corridor Authority, known as the Abidjan-Lagos
Corridor Management Authority (ALCOMA) which will be operationalized to take over the project
on behalf of the corridor Countries.
The first Phase of this Project involves among other things, alignment definition and feasibility
and preliminary designs studies for the 1,028km road which was completed by the three
Engineering Design Consultants and validated by the Corridor Member States in November 2022,
after a substantial delay because of the COVID-19 pandemic. These firms went on to develop the
Detailed Design of the Highway.
Project Directors and Engineers from the five Corridor Member Countries accompanied
Engineers from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) including the Project
Unit and Technical Assistants to hold initial technical reviews of the Detailed Design Reports and
Drawings within the context of the broader corridor objectives and the specific country
peculiarities. These were done through national-level pre-validation workshops across the five
(5) Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Member States of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, and Côte d’Ivoire from
June 18 to 24, 2024.
The Reports and recommendations from the national pre-validation workshops have been
collated and consolidated with comments from the ECOWAS Technical Assistance team and will
form the basis for the validation of the Detailed Design of the entire Abidjan Lagos Corridor
Highway.
This final technical validation workshop marks a crucial phase in concluding the technical
studies of the project’s development and will involve an extensive technical validation session,
where the Project Directors and Engineers of the five (5) participating Corridor Member Countries (CMCs) will review and grant their final approval to the Detailed Design Studies (DDS) and
Technical Specifications essential for advancing the development of the Highway Project to the
next stage.
This Technical Validation Workshop will have in attendance engineers from the Project
Implementation Unit (PIU) of the Abidjan Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project, the
Directorates of Transport and Environment, of the ECOWAS Commission, the ECOWAS Project
Preparation and Development Unit (PPDU) and the CEP, Representatives of Ministries in charge
of Infrastructure, Project focal point, Directors and Corridor Member Country (CMC) Engineers,
who are members of the PIU of Corridor Member Countries (CMCs), Development Partners and
Stakeholders including African Development Bank and European Union.
Also in attendance will be project Engineering Consultants comprising SETEC International,
PEARL Consultants, SCET Tunisie and SOFRECO the Technical Assistant to the ALCHDP and the
media.