Regional Coordination Mechanism - RCM

Making the case for youth as indispensable stakeholders in Africa’s growth

Dakar, Senegal, 25 March, 2017 (ECA) – A two-day dialogue focussing on the benefits of investing in Africa's youth kicked off Saturday in Dakar, Senegal, as part of activities marking the second edition of African Development Week.

African youth voices were represented on the opening panel by Francine Furaha Muyumba, President of the Pan African Youth Union, who deplored the rate of youth unemployment in the continent.

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Expert dialogue to focus on youth as vehicle for economic growth

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16 March, 2017 (ECA) – The 18th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) will be held in Dakar, Senegal, from 25-26 March 2017 under the theme, “UN System Support to Harnessing Demographic Dividend Through Investments in the Youth.”

The meeting, which takes place during the 2017 edition of African Development Week, presents an opportunity for the United Nations and African Union to dialogue on ways of advancing Africa's development agenda, as explained by ECA’s Acting Executive Secretary, Abdalla Hamdok.

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The Eighteenth Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa

In line with the spirit of the 2016 United Nations Quadrennial Comprehensive Policy Review (QCPR), for the first time, part of the 18th Session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) will be held jointly with the Regional United Nations Development Group.  The 18th Session RCM-Africa will be held in Dakar from the 25th to the 26th of March 2016 and the theme for this year is “UN system Support to Harnessing Demographic Dividend through investments in the Youth”.  The Session will be held “back-to-back” with the Conference of

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Time to converge international development agendas in Central Africa

Libreville, 7 December 2016 (ECA) – A plethora of regional development bodies in Central Africa under the umbrella of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Central Africa Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC) have indicated their appetite for internalising and aggregating Africa’s Agenda 2063 and the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) to better respond to the needs of the sub-region.

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Conclave to revitalise UN’s support to AU/NEPAD programme in Central Africa

Libreville, Gabon, 04 December 2016 (ECA) – Agencies of the UN System, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) of Central Africa and their development partners such as the African Development bank (AfDB) will concert from 6 to 7 December 2016 in Libreville – Gabon, to draw parallels between the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) in order to better support subregional development programmes.  This will be within the framework of the seventh session of the Sub-regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) of the UN System-wide support to the AU’s

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