This workshop aims to provide participants with the necessary knowledge to understand and apply the African Social Development Index, both at national and sub-national levels. Participants will be able to use the index to measure trends and analyse the impact of social policies on human exclusion over time.
Rabat, 7 December 2016 (ECA): The Economic Commission for Africa (Office for North Africa) and the General Secretariat of the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) held Tuesday 6 December in Rabat a bilateral, exchange and consultation meeting.
“Our purpose was first to take stock of the work we have done over the last two years, which have been characterised by many achievements, and, second, to schedule events and activities to help step up economic integration in Maghreb countries,” said Reda El Merini, Director of Economic Affairs at the UMA General Secretariat.
Rabat, 5 December 2016 (ECA) – The Economic Commission for Africa (Office for North Africa) and the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA), held today in Rabat, Morocco the third meeting of the Sub Regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for North Africa.
This event was held to set up a consultation framework for projects supporting efforts by UMA and its member States to build an integrated and inclusive economic and social space in the Maghreb region.
Tunis, 25 November 2016 (ECA): Fifty experts converged on the importance of territorial planning for competitive, inclusive industrial policies in an ECA meeting on “Territorialization of Industrial Policy and Inclusive Growth” held on 24-25 November in Tunis.
The sub-regional coordination mechanism North Africa will be holding its third consultation meeting on 5 December 2016. This event builds on similar meetings held in in 2015 and 2014, and which have led to the adoption of a regional platform to support the Arab Maghreb Union (UMA) around a number of joint action lines.
Marrakech, Morocco 18 November, 2016 (ECA) - Heads of State and Government and delegations gathered here for the High-Level Segment of the 22nd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, have sent a strong signal on climate change with the adoption of the Marrakech Action Proclamation for Climate and Sustainable Development. The President of COP22, who is also the Foreign Minister of Morocco, Salaheddine Mezouar introduced the document to the plenary on the evening of 17 November.
Marrakesh, 18 November 2016 (ECA) - “African economic growth and development are seriously at risk from runaway climate change”, said ECA’s Acting Executive Secretary Abdalla Hamdok, Tuesday 15 November in a debate with the heads of the UN regional commissions, on Economics of Climate Change.
Despite being one of the least polluting regions of the world, Africa is expected to be among the ones that will suffer the most from climate change.