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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 8, 2021 (ECA)- The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is helping prepare African countries in readiness for the global UN climate change summit (COP26) to be held in Glasgow, UK, later in the year.   Jean Paul Adam, the director of the ECA’s Technology, Climate Change, Natural Resources Division (TCND), said this during the think tank’s 2021 First Quarter Accountability and Programme Performance Review (APPR) Meeting.   According to Mr. Adam, there has been ...

Addis Ababa, 8 April 2021, ECA – The African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC), a unit of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), is preparing the first ever Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to guide on how environmental considerations can be effectively incorporated into the agreement. The AfCFTA was formed by 54 African countries in 2019 to boost intra-African trade and create the world’s largest trading bloc since the formation of th...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, April 8, 2021 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is working with African countries to increase investment in infrastructure and agriculture on the continent.  In a presentation during the ECA’s first quarter Accountability and Programme Performance Review Meeting (APPRM), Habiba Ben Barka, Economic Affairs Officer with the Private Sector Development and Finance Division, said the ECA was working to strengthen the private sector business environment in ene...

Addis Ababa, 07 April 2021 (ECA) - In June 2019, the United Nations launched its Disability Inclusion Strategy in the context of the 2030 Agenda’s principle of leaving no one behind.  The strategy, which will be implemented for five years and reviewed and updated as needed, aims to enable the UN system to support the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the sustainable development goals, the Agenda for Humanity prepared for the 2016 World Humani...

Addis Ababa, 15 March 2021, ECA – The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) are jointly organizing a webinar on Wednesday 17 March to discuss womens role in small-scale cross-border trade in Africa. The virtual event istaking place on the sidelines of the 65thCommission on the Status of Women (CSW), the main global intergovernmental body dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and women’s empowerment. The topic for di...

03/10/2021 | Press release | Archived content ECA to help Botswana develop its AfCFTA national implementation strategy, says President Masisi Addis Ababa, 10 March 2021 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to support the government of Botswana to develop its African Continental Free Trade Areas (AfCFTA) national implementation strategy, President Mokgweetsi Masisi said today. He made the disclosure in an address to the virtual Africa private sector summit on strategic opportuniti...

03/10/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 03/10/2021 19:41 Forum urges African states to ‘leave no community behind’ in pursuit of SDGs and Agenda 2063 Addis Ababa, March 10, 2021 (ECA) - Localizing the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Unions Agenda 2063 is a firm foundation for accelerating progress across Africa. This was a recurring message echoed by national and government officials at the seventh session of t...

Addis Ababa, March 10, 2021 (ECA) - Localizing the implementation and monitoring of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 is a firm foundation for accelerating progress across Africa. This was a recurring message echoed by national and government officials at the seventh session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development. Addressing the urgency swift progress, Ms. Amina Mohamed, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations said “Now i...

Brazzaville, 6 March 2021 (ECA) - The need to guide young African writers to tell the Africa SDG story with African voices has been one of the focus of the Seventh Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) hosted by Congo Brazzaville. As part of the Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) ‘Championing the Decade of Action initiative’, 15 to 35-year-old African youth creatives and writers based on the Continent or in the Diaspora were invited to attend a writing workshop foll...

Brazzaville, 4 March 2021 (ECA) – The President of the Republic of Congo – Denis Sassou Nguesso, in his capacity as Chair of the Congo Basin Climate Commission (CBCC) and the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Vera Songwe, met on Wednesday in Brazzaville to discuss Africa’s position ahead of Cop26. The President asked ECA’s Executive Secretary to work with him to build a common African position on pertinent issu...