In February 2003, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced his intention to establish the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The strategic aims of CHGA are: (i) to assess the complex ...

This paper explores appropriate policies for sustainable peace both for the international community and for a post-conflict government. and it provides an overview of the problem. It discuss the risk factors which determine ...

This document is the third version of an ongoing exercise to benchmark the Plan of Action of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The first version was delivered to the delegates of PrepCom I of WSIS in ...

This paper focuses on the Doha decision as it relates to countries in the Sub-Saharan African region. It identifies the capacity problems faced by Sub-Saharan African countries in the multilateral trading system and ...

Sierra Leone remains a fragile country despite the appearance of peace and order on the surface. Consolidating peace, re-launching the economy, and attacking the worst forms of human deprivation will require more than ...

The Project aims to support institutional strengthening at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), by developing a strategy for knowledge management within ECA, and by preparing a detailed action plan for ...

This publication presents summaries of selected papers along with a summary of the key recommendations of the meeting. The main objective of the workshop was to identify key constraints to the development of a well-functioning ...

This paper is driven by the proposition that higher education contributes directly to economic productivity which determines the standard of living of a country. It argues that in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, ...

The meeting proposed a number of interventions to accelerate and unlock benefits from the FTA and CU and deepen regional integration in Southern Africa. These have been summarized in a policy statement outlining a set of ...

Africa’s fragile progress towards reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) coincides with the end of the “first generation” of Poverty Reduction strategies (PRss) that were mandated as part of the enhanced Highly ...