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Stakeholders adopt consensus statement on sustainable exploitation of Africa's natural resources
(2012-10)
Over 800 participants attending the Eighth African Development Forum (ADF-VIII) on the theme, “Governing and Harnessing Natural Resources for Africa’s Development”, concluded three days of intense deliberations with key ...
Africa loses from poor management of natural resources,says Lopes
(2012-10)
UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has come out strong against the immense losses Africa incurs yearly through lack of adequate strategy and focus on the management ...
UN agencies discuss mobilizing resources to assist African Union and NEPAD programme
(2012-07)
In a presentation on resource mobilization, Mr. Anthony Nwanze said that while UN clusters had developed useful business plans to support the African Union, those plans could not be used mainly due to challenges with ...
APRM to help transform the management of mineral resources in Africa
(2012-02)
The extractive industry is a dominant sector in many African economies and accounts for a significant share of its exports, yet it has not spurred broad-based development and economic structural transformation on the ...
Governing and harnessing natural resources for Africa's development : concept note
(2012-10)
The African Development Forum (ADF), an Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) flagship biennial event created in 1999, is a multi-stakeholder platform for debating, discussing and initiating concrete strategies for Africa's ...
Harnessing natural resources for sustainable development in Southern Africa: opportunities and challenges in the tourism sector
(2012-03)
The Eighteenth Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Southern Africa was held in Port Louis, Mauritius. Based on the theme “Harnessing natural resources for sustainable development in Southern Africa: ...
Dialogue seeks solutions to natural resources governance
(2012-10)
The Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA) gathered civil society actors from around Africa around the theme: “Leveraging State-Society Dialogue for Improving Natural Resource Governance in Africa”. The 1-day event took ...
Harnessing fishery resources: swimming the tide to Africa's development: issues paper 3
(2012-10)
Fisheries and aquaculture are important natural resources with great potential to contribute to sustainable broad-based development in Africa. Fisheries and aquaculture contribute to nutrition and food security, create ...
Mineral resources for Africa's development: anchoring a new vision : issues paper 1
(2012-10)
Africa is endowed with considerable amounts of mineral resources and ranks first or second in quantity of world reserves of bauxite, chromite, cobalt, industrial diamond, manganese, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals, ...