This paper presents an overview of gender initiatives taking place in Eastern Africa and implementations with regard to the Regional and Global Platforms for Action. In response to commitments made at the Fourth World ...

The Economic Commission for Africa has four technical subsidiary bodies as part of its Intergovernmental machinery, namely: United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa, which is convened every three years; ...

The East African sub-region, like the rest of Africa, has severely affected by the economic decline and recession which characterised most of the 1980s and 1990s. Of the 12 countries which make up the East African sub-region ...

This report is a study of the strategies that Women's groups and organizations have adopted to empower Women about their rights. The overall objective of the strategies is provide literacy omen s icizai nunts through simnie ...

Through continuous and sustained combination of several approaches over time we will no doubt be able to put together a number of preconditions for the economic empowerment of women. In view of the foregoing, the issue of ...

This section is an attempt to monitor the important macroeconomic policy changes that have taken place since 1994. The year 1994 is chosen to correspond with the activities of the ECA over the two work programme biennia. ...

This paper examines the prospects of developing small scale food processing projects in various member states of the sub region with a view to enhancing women entrepreneurship. In Section II, we examine the rationale of ...

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 ...