Central Africa

Colloquium on: Financing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Cameroon

The objective of the colloquium is to get a full range of actors from the public sector, the private sector, civil society, development partners, bilateral donors and UN institutions to articulate key ways of financing the forgotten but structurally important SDGs, notably SDGs 8, 9 and 12, in order to help Cameroon leverage its efforts of implementing all 17 SDGs.

Concrete proposals made at the symposium should serve as a good framework of support for both Government, UN agencies, the private sector and other development partners in the implementation of the forgotten SDGs.

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Cameroon: Transformation will come via rigorous development planning

Yaounde, 06 Nov 2018, (ECA) – “We are convinced that the law of the market, called ‘the invisible hand’ in economics, which advocates ‘laissez-faire’ and ‘laissez-aller’, cannot by itself promote diversification, industrialization and the structural transformation of our economies,” a senior official of the UN Economic Commission (ECA), has told Cameroon’s development planning and statistics authorities.

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Officials to review studies on accountable development planning in Cameroon

Yaounde, 26 October 2018 (ECA) – About 70 stakeholders comprising executives and planning experts, statistics executives and experts, members of the civil society and representatives from the private sector will converge on the La Falaise Hotel in Yaounde on 5 and 6 November 2018 to review and validate two ECA studies on accountability and statistics in development planning in Cameroon.

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Workshop on Accountability in Development Planning and Launch of STEPS (Structural transformation) Profile for Cameroon

This workshop is an integral part of the United Nation’s Development Account’s Tenth Tranche project on strengthening the capacity of African national planning institutions to integrate accountability frameworks and evidence-based policies in their development planning processes and to strengthen the capacity of African national statistics institutions to collect, compile and produce the data necessary to inform and support development planning.

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Ninth Annual meeting of the Central Africa Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to AU and its NEPAD Programme

This Ninth Annual meeting of the Central Africa Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM-CA) for the United Nations system-wide support to AU and its NEPAD Program aims to give new impetus to the Common Indicative Program (CIP) of 17 UN and partner institutions working in synergy for the subregion’s sustainable development.

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Spotlight on financing ‘productive’ SDGs in Cameroon as UN hits 73

Yaounde, UN DAY, 24 October 2018 (UN - Cameroon) – How should stakeholders efficiently and effectively mobilize resources to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Cameroon, especially as the country works towards emergence in 2035?

And why should SDG 8 (decent work and economic growth), SDG 9 (industry, innovation and infrastructure) and SDG 12 (sustainable production and consumption patterns) be paid more serious attention, in this regard?

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Congo: Experts receive training to remove barriers to sub-regional trade

Yaounde - Cameroon, 17 October 2018 (ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – A training workshop for members of the National Approval Committee and economic stakeholders in the Republic of Congo on the procedures for accrediting their industrial products into the ECCAS-CEMAC Harmonized Preferential Tariff regime, has kicked off today in Brazzaville.

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Central Africa: Governments urged to fully coordinate fund-sourcing for industrialization

Yaounde, 24 September 2018 (ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – From Chad to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the economies of Central Africa must fully industrialize to survive. But to do this, member States should systematically take a coherent set of steps and coordinate a broad range of actors in gathering the resources required, and in the most innovative, practical and business-enabling ways, said delegates to the 34th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Central Africa that has ended in the Chadian capital.

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Infrastructure highlighted as 'crucial' for industrialization in Central Africa

N’Djamena, 24 September 2018, (ECA) - Experts on Infrastructure in Central Africa stated on 21 September that the sub region is “characterized by insufficient and poor infrastructure,” and that an integrated approach to infrastructure development is crucial to enhance trade-driven and natural resources-based industrialization.

This is contained in a report presented at the 34th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for Central Africa (ICE2018) in N’Djamena on the need for improved infrastructure for industrialization and economic diversification. 

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