Report of the Seventeenth meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 30 April-3 May 1996

Abstract

The theme of the conference, "Meeting the challenges of African Development in the Twenty-first Century. The role of the Economic Commission for Africa", was of great significance to the future of the Continent and to all the people of Africa. ECA was an important tool for galvanizing African States to overcome various challenges, broaden and accelerate development on a sustainable basis, end poverty, and reverse Africa's marginalization from the world political and economic system No other institution was better placed than ECA to deliver to member States such development services.