Draft recommendations :Reports to the Committee on Social Policy, Poverty and Gender – reporting and discussion

Abstract

The Committee recommended that member States: Take advantage of technical assistance from ECA, which is readily available, by sending an official letter of request to the Executive Secretary; Collaborate with ECA in the dissemination and policy uptake of its knowledge products and tools. The Committee recommended that ECA: Better clarify and share the means through which member States can seek technical support from ECA; Better convey the criteria under which member States are being selected to receive technical support; Track national programmes more consistently and use and disseminate good practices and examples to reduce the required resources and increase efficiency; Scale up its support to member States to tackle extreme poverty, which remains persistent despite decades of intervention; Scale up technical assistance to member States for the development of social policies and their implementation.