Sustainable development report on Africa : five-year review of the implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcomes in Africa (WSSD+5)

Abstract

The theme of the second issue of the Sustainable Development Report on Africa (SDRA-2) Five-Year Review of the Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development Outcomes in Africa (WSSD+5), is inspired by the thematic cluster of issues that would be deliberated on by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), at its sixteenth and seventeenth sessions, which include “Africa”. The Africa Committee on Sustainable Development (ACSD), at its third meeting in October 2003, requested ECA to regularly undertake a review of progress in the implementation of the outcomes of WSSD. ECA organizes RIMs as an integral part of the meetings of the Africa Committee on Sustainable Development (ACSD). The intent is to provide the reader with an overview of Africa’s progress in implementing its sustainable development agenda and to engender action on the part of all stakeholders, including Governments, civil society, the private sector and development partners, with a view to accelerating progress towards meeting Africa’s sustainable development goals.