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The overall objective is to assess the socio-economic impacts of EVD not only on the countries with widespread and intense transmission, but West Africa more widely and the continent as a whole—both...
2011: start of the Tunisian revolutionGafsa mining basinFor nearly six months in 2008, a major social movement, indeed, the largest ever in Tunisia, since President Ben Ali came to power in 1987,...
In North Africa, the year 2013 witnessed the impacts of the slowdown of global growth and by the continuation of the transitions relating to the sociopolitical crises in many countries of the...
While the international community is assessing the implementation of the MDGs, measuring progress towards the achievement of the sustainable development and the gap to be bridged, in particular by...
Lessons Learnt from the Moroccan experience
Morocco is one of UNECA’s Member States that have made great achievements in terms of environmental management and environmental education in recent years. In 2012 the country adopted its National...
Managing diversity in Africa for credible and fair elections
Africa has 2,110 living languages and 3,315 ethnic groups. In every African country, the population practices at least two religions. The countries are also diverse in terms of economic systems, (...
Alternative perspectives of the performance of Africa in achieving the Millennium Development Goals
How is the performance of Africa in achieving the Millennium Development Goals perceived as being a glass half full or a glass half empty? Those that hold the glass half empty view point to the fact...
This Capacity Development Strategy articulates how the Economic Commission for Africa, in acknowledged areas of competence, supports its member States, the African Union, regional economic...
Financing development in Africa has proved to be difficult in the past, compelling the continent to rely on external sources including overseas development assistance. This type of assistance is...
Dynamic industrial policy in Africa: innovative institutions, effective processes and flexible mechanisms
African countries have a greater opportunity today, than ever before, to increase and sustain growth, foster industrialization and achieve economic transformation. The continent has attracted much...
Promise and Performance
The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness is an exercise in mutual accountability undertaken jointly by ECA and the OECD following a request of NEPAD Heads of State and Government in 2003. Its...
Follow up activities Recommended by StatCom-Africa II
Issue number NTIS/005/2014
Based on the experiences of the Researchers, Inventors and Innovators Association of Ethiopia (RIIA-E) and the Desert Locust Control Organization of Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA), whose support increased...
Issue number NTIS/004/2014
African countries heavily rely on the import of medical devices and foreign expertise to install and maintain medical devices. Based on a three-year pilot project1 undertaken by the Economic...
Issue number NTIS/001/2014
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), which leads the Task Group on e-Government, recently developed a framework document and a manual to support country efforts in producing high-quality and...
Issue number NTIS/002/2014
As per the new strategic focus of ECA on evidence-based policy and analytical research, this policy brief provides options for consideration by member States, within the context of the African Union...
Issue number NTIS/003/2014
Within the new strategic orientation of ECA, which is focused on evidence-based policy research analysis, this policy brief aims to highlight some of the policy considerations regarding the role of e...
ContextThe impacts of climate change are evident in many parts of Africa (Sepo H. and others, 2013; Waithaka, M. and others, 2013; Abdulai Jalloh and others, 2013). The Intergovernmental Panel on...
Keeping Climate Impacts at Bay: A 6-Point Strategy for Climate- Resilient Economies in Africa is a product that has arisen from a speech that I delivered during the Third Climate Change and...
Africa is a hotspot of vulnerability to the adverse impacts of human-induced climate change
Based on existing emissions trends and mitigation pledges, the science shows we are on course to a 4°C world by 2100. At such warming levels, impacts for Africa are expected to be very substantially...