Speech by Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of ECA during the 12th Umushyikirano - Rwanda Annual National dialogue council delivered on 18 December 2014.
Umushyikirano is one of Rwandan homegrown initiatives. The word Umushyikirano translates to a meeting where participants are able to exchange ideas, share experiences and question each other.
This article was published by The Eastafrican on 3 November 2014
Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda are in the process of formulating their own broad tourism plans in an effort to implement the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development’s Sustainable Tourism Master Plan. Rwanda, which is not a member of the IGAD, is also keen to come up with a tourism blueprint alongside the regional block’s plan.
Kigali, 10 October 2014 (ECA) - In the wake of the recent rebasing of estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) by Ghana and Nigeria, Kenya is now the latest African country to rebase its national accounts data.
Although not on the same scale as the adjustment made in the Nigerian gross domestic product (which resulted in an approximate doubling in the size of its economy), the increase is nonetheless still highly significant - a 25.3 percent increase in its GDP, according to the Kenyan Planning Minister Anne Waiguru.
This is a book review done by Antonio M. A. Pedro, Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA), It was Published online: 05 Sep 2014. (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/.VCwQWpFbzfM)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is supporting the Rwandan Ministry of East African Community to conduct debate competitions in secondary schools so as to reinforce awareness of Regional integration among students across the country.Debating clubs were formed in 60 secondary schools to participate in competitions at district, provincial and national levels. Students and schools that shall will at the district and provincial levels will finally compete at the national level in September 2013. Media RelationsSRO-EAContact:Mr.
Kigali, 27 August 2013 (ECA) - Ambassadors and senior government officials representing Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda met with the Director and staff members of ECA, Kigali Office to discuss the groundings for the eighteenth Eastern African Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) to be held in Kinshasa, DRC in February 2014.
Addis Ababa, 01 August 2013 (ECA) – All the regional economic communities and intergovernmental organizations in Eastern Africa have launched a new initiative aimed at enhancing cooperation in the area of food and nutrition security. The Programme on Food Security for Eastern Africa emerged on July 4 after a three-day meeting in Dar es Salaam, the Tanzanian capital.
Kigali, 19 April 2013 (ECA) – The Rwanda Innovation Endowment Fund (RIEF) will soon award 10 best young entrepreneurs with locally applicable innovative projects that spur socio-economic transformation of the country.
Rwandan Prime Minister, Pierre Damien Habumuremyi, is expected to preside over the function of awarding the successful applicants in a function to be held on 2 May 2013 in the Kigali Health Institute.
Kigali 15 May 2013 - Experts attending the Kigali launch of the Economic Report on Africa (ERA) urged African countries to put into operation, individually and collectively, policy recommendations of the 2013 edition of the report.