The present briefing note focuses on substantive areas of work, grouped under topics relating to the Commission’s program of work: key events; knowledge generation and information-sharing; and capacity development, which ...

When ECA was founded in 1958, Africa was at a crossroads. African countries were just beginning to attain independence and there were great expectations and aspirations for the establishment of capable nation-states that ...

This paper is giving the information for the delegations attending the Eastern African transport Conference. The Eastern African Transport Conference will convene in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The paper also note that the ...

The Operational Mechanism described below proposes the process whereby the Monitoring and Evaluation Programme of the African Plan of Action could be implemented. Operating within the regional and global framework of the ...

In this connection, it is necessary to point out, at the outset, that ECA activities fall into three general categories, if classified by source of resources. First, there are the general activities of the secretariat which ...

This short note of information paper on survey of natural resources by the executive secretary at its first session of the Economic Commission for Africa considered that there was a great need in Africa for certain types ...