On February 25 and 26, 2019, the West Africa Quality System Program (WAQSP) organized a capacity-building workshop for resource persons of the ECORAS, the ECOWAS Accreditation Cooperation, on ISO IEC 17021 standard. -1 v2015 " Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems — Part 1: Requirements".
13 months later, after the green light of its Board of Directors, SOAC has opened this new accreditation program. Interested certification bodies can collect the information necessary for the registration of their application at: info@soacwaas.org.