The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development (MINEPAT) of Cameroon (MINEPAT), in collaboration with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), is organizing consultations on policy modelling tools, integrated planning and monitoring.
Libreville, 30 April 2018 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Annual workshop on International Economic Negotiations has been described as “remarkable and highly relevant for Africa” at a time when member states are seeking economic deals that can better serve national and continental interests.
Libreville, 24 April 2018 (ECA) - Over 70 participants including lead national negotiators from African countries and global experts in natural resources contracts, investment, taxation and financial instruments, as well as trade, have converged in Libreville for the 4th Annual Workshop on International Economic Negotiations.
The five-day event dubbed “Building Africa’s Negotiating Capacity for Improved Terms of Engagement with the Rest of the World,” was officially opened by Barthelemy Ngoulakia, Secretary General of Gabon’s Ministry of Trade and Industry.
Many Central African countries have set for themselves very tight schedules to attain emergence, that is to get to sustainable economic development levels underpinned by a fair distribution of wealth, a blossoming and competitive private sector, economic diversification, food security, financial sector development and entrenched governance and rule-of-law practices. This would be extremely difficult to achieve without the optimal development of infrastructure such as transport, communication, energy, water and industrial plants.
Yaounde, 16 April 2018 (ECA – www.uneca.org/sro-ca) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is launching a campaign to have all countries of the ECCAS sub-regional bloc operationalize the ECCAS Preferential Tariff (known for short in French as TP/CEEAC) – one of the instruments for easing trade in the zone.
During the 33rd session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) for Central Africa which took place in Douala – Cameroon in October 2017, policy makers and a wide range of actors adopted the Douala Consensus, which is a clarion call for the rapid diversification, especially through the industrialization, of economies of countries across Central Africa.