The overarching goal of the ESTNET project is thus to help build capacity for African countries* active collaboration as well as their sound and effective policy decisions in science and technology area. To this end, ESTNET ...

Within their existing mandates and activities, the regional commissions should mainstream women1s issues and gender perspectives Beijing Platform for Action 1995 Responsibility of programme managers for gender mainstreaming ...

As Africa's response to ICPD+ 5; the ECA Food Security and Sustainable Development Division (FSSDD) has coordinated the preparation of the regional report on Africa's experiences in the implementation of the DND and the ...

The main objective of development in Africa is the reduction of poverty- an objective that was reaffirmed in Copenhagen in 1995 at the Social Summit, which set a target of reducing poverty by half by the year 2015. For ...

In the Preface of the publication entitled 'Women in Parliament. Beyond Numbers" Frene Gimvala, Present of the National Assembly in South Africa says that "the seed of democracy " is planted on the principle of the legitimacy ...

This paper focuses on report on progress made in establishing a West African web site on sustainable development. The objective of the report is to highlight the growing awareness of the increasing importance of the Internet ...

The Africa Knowledge Networks Forum will "federate" existing networks with the aim of strengthening indigenous policy-oriented research and analysis for more effective use by African decision- makers. The Forum provides a ...

During the last half of the century. Africa has experienced changing economic fortunes. Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa was healthy, and dynamic during the postindependence period. Starting fromthe early 1970s and ...

Technological development has been recognised as the key driving force in economic development not only in industrially advanced countries but also in Newly Industrializing Countries (NICs). Korea, for instance, suffered ...

The High Level Stakeholders Meeting on Sustainable Development was held at the UN Conference Centre, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) from 17 to 19 January 2000. The meeting was convened to set up a preparatory process for the review ...