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Good preparations strengthen Africa's negotiating positions at COP19, experts
(2013-11)
As negotiators and experts prepare to enter the high level segment of the 19th Session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP19), which opened in Warsaw this week, the mood ...
The first innovation prize for Africa to be awarded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
(2012-03)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) are delighted to announce the establishment of the African Innovation Prize worth USD 100,000 for the winner and USD 50,000 ...
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 ...
First phase of ACPC workshop series on meteorological data to cover five African countries
(2012-09)
The initial phase of ACPC workshop series on meteorological data opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this morning and will soon extend four other African countries, ECA’s Director for the Division of Food Security and Sustainable ...
Cameroon's thumbs up for ECA's social and economic analyses on Africa
(2014-07)
The Economic Report on Africa 2014 was launched in Yaounde by the country’s Minister Delegate in the Ministry of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development. The report calls for the adoption by African states of ...
African CSOs praise governments, seek more action on women's rights
(2013-09)
Civil society organizations in Africa commended governments on the continent for the progress made in improving socio-economic conditions of Africans, but urged them to do more to enhance women’s rights in Addis Ababa, 26 ...
ECA to convene high level roundtable on democracy, governance and the pan African idea
(2012-05)
The Governance and Public Administration Division of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is organizing a High Level Colloquium on the theme: Democracy, Governance and Pan-African Idea: Whither Africa? ...
UN Global Compact XII Annual Local Network Forum & UN System Private Sector Focal Points Meeting: statement by Carlos Lopes UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA
(2014-06)
A study on “Reputation and Corporate Social Responsibility”, published by Reputation Institute in 2013, indicates that within the fifteen largest markets in the world, only five per cent of companies are seen as making a ...
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 ...