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12/24/2020 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/24/2020 05:16 ECA donates vehicles to support COVID19 response initiatives in Ethio Addis Ababa, 24 December 2020 (ECA) - We are gathered here today to extend our hand of solidarity in response to an appeal by the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) for support in their COVID-19 response activities, said Carlos Haddad who heads the Division of Administration at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). He was speaking during a ceremo...

Addis Ababa, 18 December 2020 (ECA) - On 18 December, United Nations staff, representatives of the Council of Arab Ambassadors in Addis Ababa and the Permanent Mission of the League of Arab States to the AU, Ambassadors, and the Arabic community in Addis Ababa, came together to celebrate the UN Arabic Language Day at the ECA Conference Centre. In her opening remarks at the event, ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, spoke in Arabic and said that it was an honor and privilege for ECA to be c...

Kinshasa, 17 December 2020 (ECA) - Experts attending the meeting to formulate the AfCFTA implementation strategy in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) discussed a range of sectors that could help the country benefit from the agreement. The meeting to discuss the AfCFTA strategy was organized in Kinshasa by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) through its office for Eastern Africa in collaboration with the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Trade in DRC. ECA estimates l...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, December 15, 2020 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) on Tuesday launched its flagship Economic Report on Africa, titled: “Innovative Finance for Private Sector Development in Africa”, which looks at innovate financing as a way of providing solutions to the challenges of private sector financing, hence enabling Africa’s private sector to thrive and drive the continent’s economic growth and recovery; and, importantly, to increase the private sector’s...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14 December 2020 (ECA) - The Forum on Statistical Development in Africa (FASDev) continues to play a critical role in contributing to partnership building for statistical development on the continent for informed decision-making, says Oliver Chinganya, Director of the African Statistics Centre at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). FASDev was initiated in 2004 by the ECA, the African Development Bank, the Partnership in Statistics for Development in the 21st Century...

Addis Ababa, 14 December 2020 (ECA) - “We are extremely proud of the incredibly innovative capacity demonstrated by the young girls over the past two weeks,” said Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), on Friday 11 December 2020. She was speaking at the end of a coding boot camp jointly organized by ECA and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) as part of activities to mark the UN’s 75th anniversary. The camp brought together over 2000 youn...

Addis Ababa, 14 December 20209 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is issuing a call for The Decade of Action Short Stories an initiative targeted at young African creatives in an effort to broaden the conversation, awareness and re-imagination of the Sustainable Development Goals through fiction. Young Africans born in Africa or with either of the two parents as African are invited to submit their stories in English during phase 1 of the project. At the time of submission, writer...

Addis Ababa, 8 December 2020, ECA – Aishatu Debola Aminu is the interim president of the West African Women Cross Border Traders Association (AFROACT). In that capacity she has had firsthand knowledge of challenges traders, especially women, face while doing business across African borders. Sometime ago she took an exhibit from Nigeria to Senegal for a trade fair. But at the airport in Dakar, customs officials demanded duty in excess of what she had expected to pay.  Because of the dispute o...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 12, 2020 (ECA) - The African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) provides a critical opportunity for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), including youth-led enterprises engaged in cross-border trade, to participate in the development of regional value chains, more easily meet the standards of continental markets, and supply inputs to larger companies in their regions, with targeted support. This was said Thursday by the Economic Commission for Africa...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, November 30, 2020 (ECA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is ready to host the sixth United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM: Africa) Committee meeting which will be held virtually from 1-4 December 2020. UN-GGIM: Africa was established to coordinate African geospatial development and contribute to the wider global initiative. UN-GGIM: Africa supports ECA Member States to advance holistic visions that foster th...