Report of the Regional Conference on Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa

Abstract

The Conference was attended by about 130 participants including four African Ministers of Education, educational policy makers from 29 ECA member States including 11 universities, 12 institutions of higher learning, 7 Non-governmental institutions and senior representatives from development agencies and other experts invited in their personal capacity, and drawn from all the sub-regions of Africa. Present at the meeting were representatives of the following member States of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA); Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, Congo, Cote d'lvoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, the Sudan, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe.