By its resolution 42/169, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare a decade for natural disaster reduction and by its resolution 44/236, proclaimed the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster ...

The main aim of the Conference was to review the efforts made by member States in implementing the Kilimanjaro Programme of Action (KPA) recommendations and the associated difficulties. The outcome of the exercise was the ...

This paper focuses on the strategies for financial resource mobilization for Africa’s development in the 1990s. African economies are characterized by a low level of per capita income, high marginal propensity to consume, ...

The Executive Secretary welcomed and thanked the ministers and plenipotentiaries participating in the meeting. He noted that the agenda was straightforward and consisted of one main item namely the consideration of the ...

This report is divided into two parts. Part I presents the progress report on the international conferences/summits, namely the international Conference on Population and Development; the World Summit for Social Development; ...

The purpose of the present document is, to provide the meeting with an account of action taken by the ECA secretariat towards the implementation of these resolutions.

The document focuses on the twenty-ninth session of the commission twentieth meeting of the Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning convened under the theme "ECA at 35:Building ...

La trente et unième session de la Commission/vingt-deuxième réunion de la Conférence des ministres responsables du développement économique et social et de la planification s'est tenue au nouveau Centre de conférences ...

This document contains resolutions brought to the attention of the Commission or calling for action on the part of the Commission, which have been adopted by its subsidiary organs since its last session, and which are not ...

The information contained below is from responses of the majority of African countries to a questionnaire on disaster types listed drought, floods and soil erosion as the major disaster types on the continent, followed by ...