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The 2010 Assessing Progress toward the MDGs in Africa report is based on the latest updated and harmonized data from United Nations agencies and OECD statistics databases. UNSD is the official...
Promoting high-level sustainable growth to reduce unemployment in Africa
Due to the global financial crisis, the world economy contracted by 2.2 per cent in 2009, but there are signs that it has begun to stabilize. GDP growth in Africa declined from 4.9 per cent in 2008...
This Yearbook is a result of the combined efforts of three leading African regional organizations to set up a joint data collection mechanism for socioeconomic information on African countries, as...
Enhancing Intra-African Trade
Africa’s internal trade (intra-Africa trade) has consistently remained minimal compared with its intercontinental trade. The pattern of African exports continues to be heavily influenced by...
From 1995–2009
The accountability process of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) developed and agreed upon in 1995 requires member States of the United Nations to meet on a five-yearly basis to review their...
IN HONOUR OF THE LATE TAJUDEEN ABDUL RAHEEM-A FOREMOST PAN-AFRICANIST
The High level Colloquium on the theme: “Democracy, Governance and the Pan-African Idea: Whither Africa?” was organized by the Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of the United...
The countries in North Africa share an arid and semi-arid environment with high diversity: mountainous areas run alongside maritime areas and desert. The population of the region was estimated at 160...
Southern Africa is one of the most well endowed regions in the continent in terms of mineral and natural resources. However, the region is facing serious environmental challenges such as land...
Land Policy in Africa: A Framework to Strengthen Land Rights, Enhance Productivity and Secure Livelihoods
The Framework and Guidelines on Land Policy is a joint product of the partnership and collaborative effort of the African Union Commission (AUC), the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the...
Moving to more sustainable consumption and production (SCP) is at the heart of sustainable development, and international cooperation is essential to effect that transition. Recognizing this,...
It became clear soon after the Peer Review that as important as the task of preparing the CSAR was for the countries involved, the real challenge was in implementing the NPoAs. Among the important...
The 10th session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism (RCM-Africa) held on 5-6 November 2009 underlined that “UN system organizations need to work more closely with the different Departments within...
Report of the Expert Group Meeting on the Ten Year Capacity Building Programme for the African Union
The Expert Group Meeting (EGM) for the Review of the “Declaration on Enhancing UN-AU Cooperation: Frame work for the Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme for the African Union (TYCBP-AU) was held at...
The Meeting of the Task Force on the Operationalisation of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations (UN) System-wide Support to the African Union (AU), its New...
Relations between China and Africa which were essentially ideological in nature during the cold war period have undergone a rapid expansion in the recent past as a result of the strong growth and...
The view that the relatively low economies of the sub-Saharan Africa may not be affected by the global economic and financial crisis due to their minimal integration to the world giants of the...
This report presents findings on need assessment in Modelling and Forecasting in East African Central Banks. This assessment has been commissioned by the Monetary Affairs Committee (MAC) of East...
Many of the people of the Great Lakes Region live below the poverty line and one of the causes of this situation is the population’s lack of access to means of production, of which loans is a vital...
Issues for an Institutional Convergence Framework for Regional Financial Integration in SADC
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has an ambitious integration programme that includes establishing a regional central bank and monetary union in 2016; and a regional single currency...