Aide memoire : the Committee on Governance and Popular Participation (CGPP)

Abstract

As part of reform of its intergovernmental machinery, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), set up the Committee on Human Development and Civil Society (CHDCS) by resolution 826 (XXXII) of 8 May 1997. Its members are African experts drawn from governments, private sector and civil society groups. The main objective of the Committee was two-fold: first, to provide a forum for deepening policy dialogue and interface among government, private sector and civil society, and secondly, to enable ECA to draw on the opinions of experts from these three sectors.