The objective of this background paper which was submitted to the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) is to reflect ECA's stance and comparative advantage on mainstreaming gender as a development goal, into the Poverty ...

The Minister of Social Affairs and the Promotion of Women from Togo, Ms Tembé Ashira AISAH-ASSIH, officially opened the discussion forum. She stressed the need for particular attention to women living in rural areas, as ...

United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in its mandate to evaluate and report progress on the implementation of global and regional Platforms for Africa on the advancement for women, embarked on the process ...

The first section presents a summary of the genera! Situation of women in the three areas of focus in the sub-region using the most recent quantitative and qualitative data from these countries where available; in some ...

This document is a Proposed programme of work for the biennium 2004-2005, for the Twenty-second meeting of the Committee of Experts Thirty-sixth session of the Commission/Conference of the Conference of African Ministers ...

Globalization is defined as a process through which finance, investment, production and marketing are increasingly dominated by firms whose vision and actions are not confined by national borders or national interests. ...

L’Afrique est la seule région à n’avoir pas encore pleinement exploité les immenses possibilités qu’offre l’utilisation de la science et de la technologie comme moteur de croissance et de développement. Partant du fait que ...

This document focuses on the tackling women’s poverty for economic growth and development in Africa. Women’s time does not belong to them. It is well known that patriarchal systems still prevailing in many regions of the ...

The present report aims to evaluate the progress made by African countries in implementing the recommendations on Women’s health, family planning and development. It identifies the constraints to women’s health priorities.

This report falls within the framework if the mid term examination of the implementation of the DAKAR plat form for action and the Beijing plan of action .it attempts an assessment of the progress made on the collection, ...