Progress report on the new orientation of ECA advisory services during the 1990s

Abstract

During the seventeenth meeting of the ECA conference of ministers held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 9 to 13 May 1991, a report (E/ECA/CM.17/19) was presented describing the economic challenges that would face Africa in the 1990s and that the commission was recognizing and reorientating its advisory services to member countries to meet these challenges. The report highlighted the fact that one of the major challenges that would confront ECA in the 1990s was the need for development of integrated, comprehensive and coherent solutions to problems the affect the entire region, particularly those related to external debt, structural adjustment, trade in commodities, energy crisis and environmental degradation. The report noted that, because of the complexity of these problems, and their multidimensional implications and given the limited size and resources of many African countries, there was need for cooperation of national sect oral, neighboring countries and other groupings.