Note on the women and the industrial development decade in Africa research project

Abstract

The research project on women and the Industrialization Decade in Africa was stimulated by ECA Conference of Ministers resolution 447(XVII) which requested research to be done on the participation of women in the Industrial Development Decade in Africa for presentation to the Third Regional Conference on the Integration of women in Development. The short-term objectives of the project are to develop recommendations and a plan of action for the participation of women in the Industrial Development Decade in Africa; to present the ECA conference of Ministers of Industry with a positive strategy for the participation of women in the Industrialization Decade in Africa and through the medium of the third Regional on the Integration of Women in Development/Regional Conference for the world conference on the United Nations Decade for women to give input for the world survey on the role of women in development.