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Lack of coherent national innovation policies hindering innovation in Africa
(2014-11)
Closing the technology and innovation gap in Africa has been hampered by the lack of coherent national innovation policies including appropriate regulatory frameworks and incentive regimes, panelists at the ongoing 9th ...
CEA et Aide pour le Commerce: Quatrième Examen Global et autres Activités en cours
(2013-06)
Entre le 8 et le 10 juillet 2013 Genève a accueilli le Quatrième Examen global de l'Aide pour le Commerce. La réunion a rassemblé les principales parties prenantes à travers le monde, dans l’objectif de discuter et d’examiner ...
African WTO negotiators urged to put the continent's interests first
(2013-10)
The African Group met in the run-up to the 9th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference to be held in Bali early December, with the aim of debating the state of play of negotiations and contributing to a common ...
Women can turn around Africa's poor trade performance, says ECA's Kyerematen
(2012-11)
A continental conference on Mainstreaming Gender into Trade Policy will be held in Accra Ghana from 12-14 November 2012 to focus on how to increase women's voice in trade policy and negotiations. The conference aims to ...
Post 2015 report launched with calls for a bold agenda for Africa
(2013-08)
During the launch of the high level panel of the post-2015 global agenda, held at the UN Conference Centre today in Addis Ababa, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa called for a bolder agenda for ...
La CEA lance l'Indice pour mesurer les progrès de l'Afrique en matière d'intégration régionale
(2016-07)
La Commission économique pour l’Afrique (CEA) a lancé, hier, un de ses rapports phares, l’Indice de l’intégration en Afrique (ARII), une tentative audacieuse d’obtenir des données sur l’état et les progrès de l’intégration ...
Africa Development Week Kicks Off in Addis with Calls for Green Industrialization
(2016-04)
The inaugural African Development Week opened with various speakers urging participants to engage in constructive debates that will promote Africa`s structural transformation through green industrialization. The week, which ...
Janneh says MDGs are consistent with NEPAD priorities
(2011-10)
Describing NEPAD as a framework for achieving the MDGs in Africa, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, said today in New York that the MDGs ...
Insights in resilience, social development and integration
(2014-03)
The third session of RCM-Africa was chaired by Erastus J. O. Mwencha, Deputy Chairperson, African Union and brought together a panel of presenters who addressed key issues aimed at the implementation of Agenda 2063. The ...
L'Afrique a les moyens de devenir un géant industriel mondial
(2013-03)
Un consensus est en train de se dégager entre les pays africains autour de la nécessité pour le continent d’ajouter une plus-value à ses ressources et de diversifier sa base de production afin de réaliser une industrialisation ...