Central Africa

Experts to review forest industry’s role in Central Africa’s Transformation

Yaounde, 30 Jan. 2015 (ECA) – How can central African economies redesign their forest industry in order to speed up structural transformation in the sub-region? This question will beg for answers and inspire recommendations for policy makers of the sub-region, during the 31st session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Central Africa slated for Brazzaville, Republic of Congo from 4 to 6 March 2015.

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More push needed for the AU/NEPAD programme in Central Africa

Douala, 06 December 2014 (ECA) – The 2nd phase of the Common Indicative Programmed (CIP II) adopted in 2013 by partner institutions of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism of the UN System’s support for the implementation of the African Union and NEPAD programme in Central Africa (SRCM-CA) has recorded progress but it is imperative to rake-in financial resources to service a number of its activities that still lay fallow. That’s the major take-home from the Sixth Session of SRCM-CA which has just rounded-off in Douala, Cameroon.

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Public-private dialogue: a must for enhancing Central Africa’s business climate

Douala, 3 December 2014 (ECA) – The real determining factors of investment in Central Africa include: governance, legal and judicial security, infrastructure development, availability and quality of labor, access to financing, and good relations between the public and the private sectors. This is the overall worldview of about sixty experts and economic stakeholders at who have just ended a two-day ad hoc meeting on improving the business climate in Central Africa, held in Douala-Cameroon at the behest of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

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31st session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of Central Africa

Organised in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Congo, through its Ministry of Economy, Finance, Planning, Public Investment and Integration, the main objective of this thirty-first session of the ICE is to discuss issues of economic and social development in Central Africa and to deepen reflection on the contribution of the forest industry to the structural transformation of the economies of the sub-region.

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