Report on the activities of ECA in the areas of human and social development as well as civil society: the years 1997 - 2001

Abstract

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has redefined its work to strategically provide the economic and social responses needed to grapple with the challenges of sustainable social and human development. Furthermore, the Social Summits and programs including among others the UN System-wide Special Initiative on Africa magnify the important emphasis on these issues and thus the need for ECA to keep policy concerns at the center of its work. ECA's strategies in this respect, was to deepen its activities aimed at improving the economic and social livelihood of the majority of Africans still in the margins of development.