ECA multinational pogramming and operational centres : a progress report

Abstract

Within the framework of these policy guidelines as well as the principles and objectives established in the Programme of Action on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order and the resolution on development and international economic co-operation adopted at the seventh special session of the United Nations General Assembly, the ECA secretariat has formulated a strategy and guidelines for an action programme. 1/ ECA’s strategy emphasizes, inter alia, that, the process of optimum national development can be fully achieved only through a multinational process. This is the foundation and objective of multinational programming and implementation of co-operative projects and arrangements in Africa.