52nd meeting of the IDEP Governing Council : presentation by CARLOS LOPES UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA

Abstract

This statement presented by Mr. Carlos Lopes UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA at the 52nd meeting of the IDEP Governing Council. Mr. Lopes, on his remarks highlighted that, The world has entered a new era of globalization with accelerated economic integration and higher value addition from knowledge and global industrial chains. African countries are experiencing significant economic growth with many of them being amongst the fastest growing economies in the world. This growth is due to several factors including Africa’s youthful population, its burgeoning middle class, enormous natural resources wealth, improvements in governance and macroeconomic fundamentals, urbanization and the growing dynamism of the private sector. ECA itself must retool and recalibrate its work by taking the frontline in generating original data and knowledge, grounding its policy research and advocacy on clear and objective evidence and offering meaningful capacity development and advisory services in key thematic areas relevant to the transformation agenda of our member States. The organizational structure for IDEP following these changes can be seen from the organogram attached as Annex II. There will be three sections namely, Training, Library, and Partnerships and Administration.