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ECA renews calls for the creation of strategic food commodities common market in Africa
(2010-03)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) today in Abuja called on African countries to build on the outcomes of the Abuja Food Security Summit in creating a common market of strategic food and agricultural ...
African journalists hone skills to get it right on climate change reporting
(2010-10)
The challenges posed by impacts of climate change to ordinary livelihoods in Africa are too acute to deserve the patchy coverage the African media give the phenomenon, some 40 African journalists concluded at the end of ...
New report says $100 billion annually can be mobilized for climate financing in developing countries
(2010-12)
A new report on the potential sources of revenue for financing climate change mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries concludes that it is feasible to mobilize $100 billion annually by 2020, though ...
African Ministers of Finance and Economic Development commit to placing Agriculture at the core of growth policies
(2010-03)
In the framework of the General Assembly Resolution 57/7, which recommends that NEPAD be the framework within which UN agencies support Africa’s development, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa ...
Third edition of the African Economic Outlook focuses on aid and Public Resource Mobilisation
(2010-07)
The African Economic Outlook has become a widely acclaimed annual report on African economies. AEO is the only recurrent report on Africa that provides country-by-country analysis of recent political, economic and social ...
UNECA and Microsoft join forces to support economic growth and opportunity in Africa
(2010-01)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Microsoft announced the signing of a partnership agreement to promote development and foster regional cooperation in Africa by leveraging information and ...
Africa prepares to launch single land policy frameworks and guidelines
(2010-10)
African Ministers of Agriculture gathered for a special session of their conference at which the Frameworks and Guidelines on Land Policy in Africa will be launched in the Malawian. The official launch will pave the way ...
Side events to the AUC/ECA Committee of experts meeting focus on illicit financial flows and regulatory models in the knowledge economy
(2010-03)
African finance and development leading experts gathered in Lilongwe (Malawi), tackled financial integrity issues and the e-economy regulatory models during two panel discussions organized as side events to the Committee ...
ECA's IDEP collaborates with UNDP in gender and economic management course
(2010-10)
The capacity building arm of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Institute of Development and Economic Planning (IDEP), announced today in Tunis that it is collaborating with UNDP in designing and teaching a ...
8th Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE 2010): opens with the theme "Earth Observation for Africa's Development Agenda"
(2010-10)
The 8th African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment Conference opened at UN-ECA in Addis Ababa gathering distinguished geoscientists, educators, researchers, decision makers, practitioners and allied service ...