Report on UNECA-CSO consultation on the operation and management of the African centere for civil society : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia , 5-6 April 1999

Abstract

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA} organized a two day consultation meeting with representatives of the African civil society community on 5-6 April 1999 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa. The consultation was hosted by the Development Management Division and was attended by a cross-section of the African CSO community, UN agencies and by senior staff of UNECA. (See Annex I: List of participants). The broad objectives of the consultation was to clarify the institutional arrangement of the newly established African Center for Civil Society (ACCS) and fashion a new partnership between the civil society community and UNECA in the operation, management and governance of the Center.