The committee on women and development (CWD) 2009

Abstract

The Committee on Women and Development (CWD) is a statutory body of experts and policy makers that provides guidance and advises the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on women and development. It evolved from the first Regional Conference on the Integration of Women in Development organized by ECA in Nouakchott, Mauritania in 1977. The Regional Conference recommended the establishment of the African Regional Coordinating Committee for the Integration of Women in Development (ARCC). The ARCC has evolved over the years, culminating in it being renamed the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) during the thirty-second session of the Conference of Ministers of ECA in 1997 (E/ECA/CM.23/12, 27 May 1997, Resolution 826).