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ECA holds expert meeting assessing Anti-corruption efforts across Africa
(2009-01)
As part of its anti-corruption program, the Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) will hold a meeting of anti-corruption officials, assessing how well the national anti-corruption institutions in Africa are ...
ECA conducts workshop to review progress with MDG-consistent national development plans
(2009-12)
The fourth meeting of the African Learning Group on Poverty Reduction Strategies and the Millennium Development Goals opened in Mombasa, Kenya. The outcome of this meeting will feed into several regional and international ...
Leading Africans honored with university doctorates
(2003-07)
Six leading Africans were yesterday awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Addis Ababa University, at an event organized to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and to celebrate ...
African PRSP learning group and ECA/SPA experts to meet
(2001-11)
The African Learning Group is an initiative designed by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to promote African ownership of poverty reduction strategies. Back-to-back with the Learning Group meeting will be an Experts ...
United Nations Ethiopia staff Stand up against poverty
(2009)
More than 300 members of the United Nations staff in Ethiopia took a stand against poverty during the annual “Stand Up and Take Action” event. The event also included a pledge, read aloud by participants, asking leaders ...
A new report says some cultural factors influencing spread of AIDS are specific to Africa
(2008-06)
A new report released today on the state of HIV and AIDS in Africa says many cultural factors, including gender inequalities, wife inheritance and some sexual practices, that influence the AIDS epidemic and response are ...
Second meeting of the African learning group on the poverty reduction strategy papers (PRSP)
(2002-11)
The African Learning Group on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP-LG) will bring together senior African policy makers from about fifteen countries, including the Sierra Leonean Minister for Development and Economic ...
African statisticians challenged to produce gender responsive data
(2008-12)
Speaking at the opening session of a today regional workshop on gender statistics in Addis Ababa today, the Director of the African Centre for Statistics, Mr. Ben Kirergyera, explained that “gender responsive” or “gender ...
Commissioner joy phumaphi opens meeting on treatment and care for persons living with HIV/AIDS
(2004-07)
The second CHGA Interactive was held in Gaborone, Botswana in 2004. During the meeting Statement given by Mrs. Phumaphi, Commissioner of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance, former Minister of Health of the Republic ...
Amoako calls for action on African unemployment, poverty
(2004-12)
ECA Executive Secretary K.Y. Amoako has predicted that Africa faces sharply worsening unemployment and poverty unless governments take multi-faceted actions to create jobs. "We need to do much, much more than we are now ...