Statutory report of the Institute for Economic Development and Planning

Abstract

This report, presented in line with the standing request of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, summarizes the work of the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) for the period from March 2014 to March 2015. It covers the Institute’s core activities, focusing on its main mandate of providing training for officials of member States responsible for economic management and development planning. During the reporting period, the Institute successfully built on its record of the preceding five years with regard to the number and diversity of its courses and the candidates admitted to those courses. IDEP entered 2014 against the backdrop of a highly successful year of programme implementation in 2013, a time when the Institute recorded the highest number of courses ever in its more-than-50-year history. In the statutory report it submitted to the Conference of Ministers on its programme and activities for 2013, the Institute had indicated that the success it had recorded in various areas was clear evidence of the success of the repositioning strategy which it had adopted on the recommendation of its Governing Council.