The Namibia-Ghana Permanent Joint Commission of Cooperation (PJCC) concluded in Swakopmund, Erongo Region, with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Namibia’s International Women’s Peace Centre and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC).

The MoU provides for cooperation in the areas of technical capacity building, training, policy research, and analysis of women in peace and security, as well as in peacekeeping and peace support operations.

The Commission also expressed the desire to elevate the Permanent Joint Commission for Cooperation to a Bi-National Commission to be co-chaired by the two respective Heads of State.

The 5th Namibia-Ghana Permanent Joint Commission of Cooperation was held in the coastal town from Tuesday to Thursday.

The ministerial session of the PJCC was preceded by a meeting of senior officials that was co-chaired by the Executive Director of the Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation, Ambassador Penda Naanda, and Ambassador Hannah Nyarko, Coordinating Director for Political and Economic Matters of Ghana's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.

The Namibian delegation was led by Dr. Peya Mushelenga, Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, while the Ghanaian delegation was led by Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration.