February 4^th  - Low to high-income countries, including the ECOWAS Member States, generate a great extent of biomass, agro-residues, and wastes – whether agricultural or municipal solid wastes. This process has the potential of increasing the generation of distributed power and biofuels as well as optimizing the scope and quality of waste management from smaller villages to bigger cities. The additional advantage of new available innovative technologies is that social hazards, as well as severe environmental damages (e.g.