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Capacity development indicators for spatial data infrastructures in Africa
(2005-04)
This paper is examine, for the need for a "comprehensive assessment of the existing capacity for the establishment and management of SDI" within the framework of the recommendations of the "African Regional Preparatory ...
Economic and welfare impacts of the EU-Africa economic partnership agreements
(2005-07)
The Cotonou Partnership Agreement (CPA) between the European Union (EU) and African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries is expected to succeed the expired Lome" Agreement. It envisages the signing of Economic Partnership ...
Geo-information capacity building and building on capacity in Kenya : a partnership approach
(2005-04)
Research has shown that there is a direct link between Information and Communication Technologies Infrastructure (ICTs) and per capita growth. In deed, there is growing consensus that because of rapid innovation, ICTs ...
Partnership modalities for enhancing good governance
(2005-12)
This study discusses two important development trends emerging throughout the world as we enter the twenty-first century: public-private partnerships and participatory development. In the first case, the study identifies ...
National Ict and policies and plans towards poverty reduction: emerging trends and issues
(2005-04)
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) in May 1996, which serves as a guiding framework for building the information and communication infrastructure in Africa. ...
Strategies for promoting effective stakeholder participation in the African peer review mechanism
(2005-04)
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) has been heralded, since its adoption by African Heads of State Summit in Lusaka in July 2001, as Africa’s vision and compact for development in the 21st Century. The ...
African CSOs speak: on the World Summit on the Information Society
(2005-11)
The African Civil Society have engaged in the World Summit on the Information
Society (WSIS) in a resolute manner. From its early stages, when the notion of ICT for
development was only a nascent idea to the very last ...
Maps and geographic information for everyone everywhere
(2005-04)
A map is an efficient tool for communicating geographic information. Traditionally Maps have been distributed in paper form with the topographic map as the most Common example. Nowadays, geographic data are stored in data ...
Assessing Public Financial Management and Accountability in the Context of Budget Transparency in Africa UNECA.
(2005-11)
The policy goal behind the pursuit of fiscal transparency is to ensure that the objectives of fiscal policy, its legal, institutional, and economic framework, policy decisions and their rationale, data and information ...
Proposed programme of work for the biennium 2006-2007
(2005-03)
This document is a Proposed programme of work for the biennium 2006-2007, of the Twenty-fourth meeting of the Committee of Experts Thirty-eighth session of the Commission/Conference of the Conference of African Ministers ...