Can Southern Africa industrialize amidst energy crisis?
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Southern Africa
Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting
ECA Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa will convene an Ad-hoc Expert Group meeting (AEGM) under the theme Addressing the Energy Crisis in Southern Africa: Perspectives for the future from 14-15 March, 2016, also in Lilongwe, Malawi.
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22nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) – Southern Africa
The ECA Sub-regional Office for Southern Africa will convene the 22nd Session of the Inter-governmental Committee of Experts (ICE) meeting to discuss Implementation of the SADC Industrialization Strategy and Roadmap from 14-18 March 2016 in Lilongwe Malawi.
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Can Southern Africa industrialize amidst energy crisis?
Lusaka, Zambia, 19 Jan 2016 (ECA) - Southern Africa is experiencing the toughest energy crisis yet and unless addressed, it threatens the region’s efforts to accelerate industrialization.
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Why African-based institutions should operate coherently
Gaborone, 11 December 2015 (ECA)- Africa's Agenda 2063 aspires to an integrated prosperous and peaceful continent. A vision which experts say could be attained when institutions operating in Africa work together and ensure coherence and complementarity in the implementation of development projects.
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We are waiting for ECA’s advice, Zambian Government
Lusaka, Zambia, 2 December 2015 (ECA) - The Zambian government says they are expecting ECA to provide economic advice on what direction to take following the sharp decline of Zambia’s economy in the last three months.
“We are expecting ECA to convene an emergency meeting with us and other struggling economies to discuss options” said Secretary to the Cabinet, Rowland Msiska during a meeting with ECA, Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha in Lusaka, Zambia.
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Demystify statistics
ECA/ 18 November 2015, Lusaka, Zambia - There is a lot of fear associated with statistics, says Zambia’s Vice President Inonge Wina.
In her opening speech at the Africa Statistics Day Commemoration in Lusaka, Zambia, Wina argued the Central Statistics Office to “demystify statistics so that people can appreciate the value and relevance of statistics in making better choices as individual and as a nation.”
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Stakeholders’ Meeting on the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism for Eastern and Southern Africa
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in collaboration with the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), Inter-governmental Organisations (IGOs), United Nations agencies and key development partners in Eastern and Southern Africa, is organising the 2015 annual Stakeholders’ Meeting on the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism for Eastern and Southern Africa (SRCM-EA&SA).
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Xenophobia abhorrent to regional integration
ECA-Lusaka 21 Oct, 2015 - Xenophobia and regional economic integration are contradictory. Without the free flow of people, goods and services, there can never be regional integration or building a community of regional citizens.
These observations were made at the southern Africa inaugural seminar series hosted by ECA Southern Africa office in partnership with the African Peace-building Network (APN) of the Social Science Research Council in Livingstone, Zambia from 7-8 October 2015.
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Women, rural communities most affected by human exclusion
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