UNECA-MRAG mission report on short-term training workshop to trainee diplomats advisory service, institute of diplomacy and international studies, University of Nairobi

Abstract

At the request of the Director of the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies, University of Nairobi, Kenya, S.K.B. asante, Senior Regional Adviser in Economic Cooperation and Integration, ECA-Multidisciplinary Regional Advisory Group (ECA-MRAG), undertook a mission to Nairobi between April 8 and 26, 1996. The purpose of the mission was three-fold. First, to provide short-term training workshops on, Regional Integration and Africa's Development and; Europe-African Relations under the Lom6 Convention to ;15 diploma students, and 12 M.A. students as part of the academic programmes of the Institute. Second, to collaborate with the Institute in reviewing its programmes with particular reference to the establishment of Centre for Information Technology and Diplomacy. Third, to examine the possibility of establishing partnership of ECA with; the Institute of Diplomacy and International Studies (IDIS); Institute of Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), and African Economic Research Consortium.