This paper focuses on the second meeting of the Africa Regional co-ordinating Committee for the Integration of Women in development was held at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 12 to 14 March 1981 at the headquarters of the ...

The theme of the conference, "Meeting the challenges of African Development in the Twenty-first Century. The role of the Economic Commission for Africa", was of great significance to the future of the Continent and to all ...

The paper deals the Nairobi Forward-Looking Strategies, adopted in 1985, made concrete recommendations as to which policy and programme measures are needed to promote women's self-reliance and full integration in the ...

The meeting had a role to play in the process of reviewing the problems and applauding the successes of the Decade. Some of the obstacles that still remained in women’s path in the Region included the exclusion of many of ...

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 ...

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 ...