controlling electoral fraud and corruption, for observing elections, and for improving the security of elections. · Prospects of actions and suggestion of solutions focus mainly on initiatives at the community level with the principal aim of identifying and initiating reflections and proffering solutions to the major challenges that the management of election is facing in West Africa. · As for the actions to be taken in this domain, ECOWAS could for instance create frameworks for the identification and updating of the challenges to electoral management, initiate deep reflections on the major concerns relating to voting(How to vote? Why to vote?), and initiate actions of reflection and exchange on the evolution of electoral legislations and practices in the different countries of the sub-region. 235