The aim of this Issues Paper is to review progress so far made since the Beijing Platform for Action (BPA). 1995 in the production and use of gender-dis-aggregated data (ODD) to address key issues in policy making towards ...

The United Nations General Assembly resolution 58/218 mandates United Nations Regional Commissions in collaboration with the secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD), regional and ...

In recognition of the problem of land tenure security and its effect on sustainable development, a study on Land tenure systems and sustainable development in Southern Africa was included in the ECA-SA work program. A draft ...

The consumption of chemicals by all industries and modern society’s reliance on chemicals for virtually all manufacturing processes make chemicals production one of the major and most globalized sectors of the world economy. ...

The objective of the subprogramme is to ensure food security and sustainable development in member countries of the ECA by: planning and implementing a critical programme to raise policy-makers' awareness of the urgency ...

The importance of Science and Technology to modern societies, and the role of a technologically informed population in promoting social and economic development, have long been recognized. Further advances in technology ...

In its Economic Report on Africa 2000, ECA argues that "the key to achieving sustainable growth and reducing the vulnerability of African economies to outside shocks is to transform the structure of Africa's economies. ...

This report on National Councils for Sustainable Development in Africa (NCSD-Africa) is for the first time published by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to complement the first Sustainable Development Report on ...

The aim of the pan-African conference was to determine how to urgently strengthen water governance in our region in order to collectively meet the WSSD targets and the millennium development goals on safe drinking water ...