Publication list
Findings from the African Peer Review Mechanism and a Framework for Analysis and Policy-Making
Considered to be the most innovative and important element of African Union’s NEPAD initiative, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) was launched in March 2003 to address governance challenges...
Diversity Management in Africa: Findings from the African Peer Review Mechanism and a Framework for Analysis and Policy-Making
The Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) organized an external peer review meeting on the theme “Diversity Management in...
Information on how parliamentarians can participate in APRM
This booklet has been designed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to provide Parliamentarians across African continent with information on the African Peer Review Mechanism...
LPI VisionA peaceful and prosperous Africa realized through equitable access, efficient and sustainable utilization of landLPI MissionTo ensure all land users have equitable access to Land and...
An untapped potential with considerable Socio-economic opportunities
Ecotourism is an important and rapidly growing “niche market” within the global tourism industry, which offers an opportunity to develop products that can contribute to national environmental...
Report for the UN Economic Commission for Africa – Subregional office for Eastern Africa
A vast region, with a number of politically unstable states, eastern Africa nevertheless has displayed potential in grappling with some of those challenges and creating an integrated market to help...
A Study on the Challenges and Opportunities for Tourism Development
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are of vital importance for all human societies, and particularly to the African countries that are confronted with multifaceted challenges which...
Progress Report on the Implementation of Regional and International Agendas, including NEPAD and other Special Initiatives, in the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Sub region
The purpose of this report is to take stock of progress achieved by the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with respect to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...
Draft Report
This is the report of the Seminar on “Enhancing the Effectiveness of Food Security Information Systems in the SADC Sub-Region” held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 14 - 15 November 2011.The main...
Issues Paper
Due to the inadequacies in the Food Security Information Systems (FSIS) at SADC and member States levels, ECA-SA commissioned a background paper to critically review the gaps and recommend ways for...
The objective of the meeting was to review the SADC Macroeconomic Convergence (MEC) Programme for monetary integration. In particular, the experts reviewed a background report on “Addressing the...
Macro-economic convergence is critical for Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries to achieve a level of harmonization required for the establishment of a single currency under the...
The Subregional Office for Southern Africa of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA SRO-SA) in cooperation with the Government of the Republic of Namibia organized the Ad hoc Expert...
South-South cooperation is a means of development cooperation whereby developing countries assist each other by sharing technical or economic knowledge and skills to facilitate development. It...
Addressing the youth education and employment nexus in the new global economy
Young Africans are the key to an African renaissance and will remain players in and advocates of social transformation and development in many spheres. The enormous benefits young people can...
Advancing the Social Development Priorities of ECA, AUC and AU-NEPAD Program
This paper examines how the most recent poverty reduction strategies and national development plans in fourteen African countries have addressed social protection. The findings show that some of the...
Promise & Performance
The Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness is an exercise in mutual accountability undertaken jointly by the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the OECD following a request of NEPAD Heads of...
Africa’s average economic growth has been positive and relatively high in the first decade of the third millennium. This economic expansion should have enhanced the ability of...
AU Conference of Ministers Responsible for Mineral Resources Development Second Ordinary Session, 12-16 December, 2011, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The African Mining Vision (AMV) was developed by Africa’s Ministers responsible for Mineral Resources at their conference in Addis Ababa in October 2008, with the ultimate objective that...