When the international community declared the period 1976-1985 as the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace., it represented the culmination of a series of events which Were instrumental in ...

Delegates at the Second, Regional Conference on the Integration of Women in development, held in Lusaka, Zambia, 3-7 December 1979, interalia discussed the employment of women in the professional and decision-making positions ...

The United Nations Trust Fund for African Development (UNTFAD) was established in 1977 by the Secretary-General as a response to the request of African countries with a view to mobilizing additional resources necessary ...

The scale and persistence of the food crisis in Africa during the last 20 years is of the gravest concern to African governments as well as to the international community. Food production is not able to keep pace with ...

This document shows the report of the Fifth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of the Subregional Development Centre for Southern Africa : Lusaka, Zambia, 5-8 October 1998.

African countries shall devote a greater proportion of.their resources to the promotion of women in development in order to reduce dependence on external aid, and there was a need for co-ordination of efforts for the ...

The Arusha Forward-Looking Strategies for the Advancement of African Women beyond the United Nations Decade for Women are long-term plans for the advancement of African women, principally as agents in development, up to ...