Search
Green recovery for African resilience: building back better in Africa in the wake of COVID-19 and the climate crisis
(2021-08)
Climate change is a critical factor that underlines the vulnerability of all countries. In Africa, climate vulnerability is coupled with the weak capacity for emergency response due to the lack of strong financial institutions, ...
Summary of the 2020 Africa sustainable development report
(2021-12)
Summary of the 2020 Africa sustainable development report. The three key aspects of prosperity are efforts by Africa to achieve inclusive economic growth, access to affordable energy and Internet access, through the ...
Technology marked as central Africa's ace card to green industrialisation
(2014-03)
After three days of brainstorming on the opportunities and challenges of the green economy for industrialization in Central Africa, about sixty experts from eight countries in the sub-region and several international ...
Towards an African consensus statement for Rio+20
(2011-03)
A source at the ongoing workshop on institutional and strategic frameworks for sustainable development in Africa today assured the Information and Communications Service (ICS) of Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) that ...
Lopes says green energy is the way for Africa's industrialisation, panel explains why
(2014-03)
The United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa, Mr. Carlos Lopes, has urged African countries to use renewable energy and develop leap-frogging capabilities to ...
An initial appraisal of Africa's path towards sustainable development
(2017-10)
A new report launched states that in spite of recent progress, African countries need to sustain efforts to eradicate extreme poverty and gender inequality and also improve their statistical capabilities to implement and ...
Why Zimbabwe will welcome CCDA 5 with fervor
(2015-10)
The 5th CCDA comes at the time when several voices have been raised as to the very future the mighty Victoria Falls because of the toll climate impacts appears to be taking on one of the longest waterfalls in the world. ...
ECA's Economic Report on Africa presented to Moroccan high-level council
(2016-06)
ECA’s Economic Report on Africa presented to Moroccan high-level council. This presentation was part of a hearing by the CESE Permanent committee for economic affairs and strategic projects; and aimed to collect ECA views ...
Progress Report on Climate Change and Development
(2009-05)
The purpose of this report is to update the 2009 Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Development on the progress made in ...
Regional forum on sustainable development officially kicks off in Addis Ababa.
(2017-05)
The 2017 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) officially kicked-off in Addis Ababa today with Acting Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Abdalla Hamdok, calling on Africa to stop ...