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Seychelles, 6 September 2022 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) kickstarts the applied training on the Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit in Mahe, Seychelles.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1 September 2022 (ECA) - The government of the Togolese Republic, under the Ministry of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in the facilitation of the Lomé Declaration, launched the contest for the logo design for The African Center For Coordination And Research In Cybersecurity (ACCRC)

Addis Ababa, August 16, 2022 - On the 14th of August 2022, The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) Council of Ministers unanimously approved the Ethiopian Digital Identification Proclamation on its 11th regular meeting.The lack of a foundational identification system in the country has been challenging for both government and private institutions in uniquely

Addis Ababa, 1 September 2022 (ECA) - United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Vera Songwe, has stepped down, effective 1 September 2022, after five years of dedicated service to ECA and its Member States.Announcing her decision to step down during a town hall meeting on 22 August, Ms. Songwe thanked ECA staff

Kampala, Uganda, August 19, 2022 :Partner States of the East Africa Community (EAC) are resolute in ensuring the implementation of the African Union (AU) Declaration on land within their respective countries. The resolution follows the sharing of best practices by the EAC Partner States during the first Regional Platform meeting held on 17-18 August 2022 in Kampala, Uganda.

Windhoek, Namibia, 17 August 2022 - The Connected Africa Girls Coding Camp is back this year with its 5th edition commissioned by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in partnership with the government of The Republic of Namibia, UN Namibia, UN WOMEN, and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). The hybrid training targets young African women and girls between the

Kampala, Uganda , August 18, 2022 : The African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) has enhanced the capacity of senior staff of the East African Community (EAC) Secretariat to facilitate the integration of land governance issues in programmes, epecially those of the productive sector.

Lomé (Togo), 16 August 2022 – The Republic of Togo and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are pleased to announce their signature of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on establishing the “African Center for Coordination and Research in Cybersecurity”.As a central regional hub for cybersecurity information and intelligence based in Lomé

Lusaka, 16 August 2022 (ECA) - Experts from the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) and the Government of Zambia held a two-day National Action Planning workshop from 10th to 11th August 2022 on the alignment and harmonization of regional and national frameworks on industrialization.The major objective of the event was to

Addis Ababa, 4 August 2022 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) hosted an expert group meeting to discuss the development of African carbon credit markets, in particular building on work that ECA has led to support the creation of a regional carbon registry and a harmonized protocol for issuance of carbon credits for countries of the Congo Basin Climate