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20 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
African Registrars General are meeting in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, for the first time to deliberate on how to improve civil registration as part of implementing the civil registration and vital statistics process the continent.
20 October 2017
allafrica.com
The Economic Commission for Africa completed today a five-day mission in Nouakchott, to provide capacity-building support to Mauritanian statisticians in order to better calculate statistics related to livestock.
20 October 2017
news.xinhuanet.com
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/20/c_136692346.htm
20 October 2017
maghrebemergent.info
En 2035, la moitié de la population africaine sera urbaine, contre à peine un tiers en 1990. Cette urbanisation rapide implique de nombreux défis en termes d'infrastructures et de services, mais elle peut aussi être un vecteur du développement industriel du continent, à condition qu'elle soit mieux planifiée.
20 October 2017
www.enca.com
The right African policy framework, including industrial policies that will generate the skilled jobs and productivity gains needed for the structural transformation of economies, could harness the continent’s rapid urban transition to drive industrial development, the UN said.
19 October 2017
http://news.xinhuanet.com
Policy makers and experts, who have gathered in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa as part of the Global Green Growth Week 2017, emphasized the need to unlock Africa's green growth potential.
17 October 2017
http://sdg.iisd.org
The launch of the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC) marks the institutionalization of an 11-year programme of work developed by the Land Policy Initiative (LPI), a tripartite initiative of the African Union (AU) Commission, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and the African Development Bank.
16 October 2017
allafrica.com
African governments should invest more resources in the fight against illicit financial flows as one of the ways to support development efforts in the bloc.
15 October 2017
www.ghanaweb.com
Dr Dimitri Sanga, Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) Sub Regional Office for West Africa (ECA SRO/WA), has said only a potent political will emanating from the headship of the sub-regional grouping could leverage the aspirations of a single-currency regime for the zone in earnest.
14 October 2017
afrique.latribune.fr
Aida Opoku-Mensah, conseillère spéciale pour les Objectifs de développement durable auprès de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique (UN-CEA), a précisé dans une déclaration à l'agence Xinhua à Nairobi que ce continent perdait environ 50 milliards de dollars par an en recettes fiscales siphonnées en direction de comptes offshore. L'annonce ne fait que remuer le couteau dans la...
14 October 2017
www.lusakatimes.com
Zambia has been cited as one of the countries in Africa with the best practices in instituting a coordination mechanism as that exemplified by the industrial cluster approach that has been adopted under the Seventh National Development Plan.
14 October 2017
new.observer.org.sz
The following are some of the challenges that have been associated with FDIs in Africa as a hosting destination.
14 October 2017
www.journalducameroun.com
African countries have been warned that if they don’t stem Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) they might fail to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.During the 5th Pan African Conference (5th PAC) on IFFs and Tax Dr Aida Opoku Mensah a senior advisor to the Executive Secretary on SDGs and special initial at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) said African countries need...
13 October 2017
http://french.china.org.cn/foreign/txt/2017-10/13/content_50036259.htm
Le retrait des États-Unis de l'Accord de Paris aura des conséquences massives sur le soutien au financement d'actions pour le climat dans le monde en développement, a réaffirmé James Murombedzi, coordinateur du Centre africain pour la politique climatique (ACPC) au sein de la Commission économique pour l'Afrique des Nations Unies (UN-CEA).
13 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
An African Minerals Development Centre-led (AMDC) initiative for strengthening African regional geoprocessing centres with a relational and spatial database will take place on 13 October 2017 at the UN Conference Centre.
13 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
The ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe has stressed the need for countries to create favorable policy environments and transparent investment frameworks to allow the private sector to participate and contribute meaningfully to the achievement of the Sustainable development goals the African Agenda 2063. Participating in a panel discussion at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF this...
13 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
The second session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa opened in Addis Ababa Wednesday with ECA Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha, challenging participants to come up with ways on how the continent can best integrate inclusive gender and social policies in national plans and budgets.
13 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
The second session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa opened in Addis Ababa Wednesday with ECA Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha, challenging participants to come up with ways on how the continent can best integrate inclusive gender and social policies in national plans and budgets.
12 October 2017
www.africa-newsroom.com
The withdrawal of the United States from Paris Agreement will have massive implications on US support to the financing of climate actions in the developing world, says James Murombedzi, Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
12 October 2017
africareportonbusiness.com
The second session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa opened in Addis Ababa Wednesday with ECA Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha, challenging participants to come up with ways on how the continent can best integrate inclusive gender and social policies in national plans and budgets.
12 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
The withdrawal of the United States from Paris Agreement will have massive implications on US support to the financing of climate actions in the developing world, says James Murombedzi, Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre (ACPC) at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
11 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
Urbanization can play an immense role in the economic and social transformation of Africa hence the need for the continent to harness the phenomenon for a long-term inclusive and sustainable vision and goals by unleashing the potential of cities to be drivers of local, regional and national level economic and social development.
11 October 2017
www.ghanabusinessnews.com
The Economic Commission for Africa, (ECA) and its partners have warned that if the efforts to confine the definition of illicit financial flows (IFFs) and its measurement to criminal and outright activities such as money laundering, corruption and the theft of state assets, while excluding corporate tax avoidance succeeds, they would seriously undermine the progress achieved so far in fighting...
11 October 2017
www.cnbcafrica.com
Africa needs to intensify efforts to put in place effective mechanisms that will cater for the needs of its older population, says William Muhwava, Chief of the Population and Youth Section in the Economic Commission for Africa’s Social Development Policy Division.
11 October 2017
africaneyereport.com
Urbanization can play an immense role in the economic and social transformation of Africa hence the need for the continent to harness the phenomenon for a long-term inclusive and sustainable vision and goals by unleashing the potential of cities to be drivers of local, regional and national level economic and social development.