Central Africa

Yaounde, 9 June 2016 (ECA) – In a rather upbeat High Policy Dialogue that ended in Yaounde today, close to 40 senior state planning officials from across Africa concurred that urbanization must be harnessed in development planning for its potential to deliver growth, improve livelihoods and accelerate structural transformation.

Yaounde, Cameroon, 9 June 2016 (ECA) – There are clear signs that the campaign for structural transformation and regional integration, which ECA has been championing for years, now is sinking among Central Africa’s policy makers. This follows cross-cutting acclamation received by the Commission today in the Cameroonian capital, as Ms Giovanie Biha, Deputy Executive Secretary in Charge of Knowledge Delivery led the presentation of a three out of a gamut ECA reports published this year.

Yaounde, 7 June 2016 (ECA) - Africa can no longer afford to watch its « 55 per cent galloping urban sprawl» go without factoring urbanization into its core development planning processes.

And it is high time the continent fixed « the imbalance between the modest volume of urban investments and the huge contribution of cities to GDP » said Cameroon’s Minister of Housing and Urban Development – Mr. Jean Claude Mbwentchou – at the start of an ECA-convened High Level Policy Dialogue dedicated to mainstreaming urbanization into overall development planning on the continent. 

Yaoundé, 26 April 2015 (BDEAC, ECA, ECCAS, CEMAC) – The Central African Development Bank (BDEAC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Secretariat General of ECCAS and the CEMAC Commission have just launched an initiative to revive the implementation of the Central Africa Consensual Transport Master Plan (PDCT-AC, in French), adopted in January 2004 by ECCAS Heads of State and Government.