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 ECA conference of minister of African LDC appeals to all member states of the group of 77 to favorably consider the modifications and addendum which it has proposed after serious deliberations in the light of the ...

The Executive Secretary, as part of the Commission's work programme, to prepare a demographic manual, which will contain concepts and definitions suitable for African countries.

This paper focused on a progress in the areas of employment generation, productivity enhancement and co-operation in the use of high-level manpower.

Acute poverty, chronic food-insecurity and under-development generally spreading in rural Africa are rooted in low and declining outputs in the household farming sub-sector which produces the bulk of agricultural output. ...

This present report has been prepared by the secretariat of the ECA as an Annex to the 1989 Report on the World Social Situation, pursuant to the above-cited resolution of the ECOSOC. It reviews and analyses in sections ...

The second meeting of the United Nations Interagency Working Group on the integration of Women in development in Africa was-held at Mulungushi Hall, Lusaka, on 1 and 4 December 1979.

Since its establishment in 1975 the staff of the African Training and Research Centre for Women have realized the need to build into its programme provision for periodic evaluation to provide guidance for its directions ...

This paper focuses on progress report on education and training institution building and summary of the current status of the sub regional graduate schools of management in Africa, the African institute for higher technical ...