Mission report: To sensitize the government of the royal kingdom of Swaziland on the role of ECA/SRDC-SA and to collect data on social and economic conditions

Abstract

In 1995 the ECA Conference of Ministers approved the reform programme of the Commission presented in the report "Serving Africa Better - Strategic Directions for the Economic Commission for Africa" where key decisions where presented. One of these required the strengthening of the MULPOCs. The ECA Sub-Regional Development Centers (SRDC) with a revised mandate were set up in 1997 with the former Eastern and Southern African MULPOC being split into two: Eastern and Southern Africa SRDCs with the latter serving eleven countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.