the member countries in order to produce useful results for everybody. We deem it necessary at this point to underline the significance and the beneficial nature of experience-sharing during the training. To these two categories of direct training of actors involved in the electoral process(at the national and regional level), a third category of initiatives can be added. It is about the possibility of creating a framework of information and expertise that contributes to finding solutions for urgent needs of actors in electoral processes of a member country of the community 12 . This can be in the form of a website created at the level of the ECOWAS which offers information pertaining to electoral practices, challenges met here and there, pertinent solution and ideas, etc.; it can also consist in setting up a team of experts from the ECOWAS or elsewhere to suggest answers to urgent questions expressed by the different actors of member countries within a short period of time. 5.1.2 Identification and suggestion of specific supports to the weak points of the electoral process Training activities for key actors of the electoral process with regards to their rights and duties naturally do not exhaust the concerns for the support of ECOWAS which can be crucial and pertinent. Another dimension of the electoral process where the intervention of ECOWAS structures can be profitable is the one which relates to what can be referred to as weak points of the electoral process. More specifically, it is about the shortcomings noticed at the level of key actors and/or specific stage of the electoral process which cannot be completely corrected by training and awareness-raising activities. The shortcomings in question can be related to deficiencies at the level of the key actors of the electoral process: they may not know or adhere to their rights and obligations. Although the risks which arise from non-respect of their obligations are quite obvious, it is not as easy to see the risks coming key actors who incapable of enjoying their 12 These could function like the emergency service in hospitals where first care will be given while awaiting for more stable conditions to seek for the real remedy to patient's condition. 229