Report of the committee on the programme of work and priorities to the second session of the Economic Commission for Africa

Abstract

The committee on the work programme and priorities was called together in pursuance of paragraph 64 of the report of the first session of the Economic Commission for Africa, which provides that: the executive secretary should convene, in advance of the next session of the commission, a meeting of representatives of all members and associate members to consider proposals for the work programe which governments would be requested to submit to the executive secretary. The committee should also receive a report from the executive secretary on the progress of work since the last session. It would be the task of the committee to prepare a draft work programme.