Abidjan, September 9, 2015 (ECA) On Wednesday September 9, 2015, the conference room on the 20th floor of the SCIAM building in Abidjan hosted the workshop to launch the Guide to Priority Project Cycle Management for Côte d’Ivoire, placed under the Presidency of the Technical Advisor of the Minister of State, Minister of Planning and Development, Mr. Anatole TOHOUGBE, Representative of the Minister.
The present report on sustainable development goals (SDGs) for the West Africa sub region is one of five sub regional reports prepared within the framework of the Africa Post-2015 and Rio+20 follow-up processes to support African countries in their efforts to effectively engage in the global SDG process and to ensure that the goals to be agreed are well aligned with the region’s sustainable development priorities.
A meeting of the Regional Integration Committee bringing together the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) and twenty Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) operating in the sub-region will be held on September 3-4, 2015, at the Belle Côte Hotel in Abidjan [Côte d’Ivoire].
Niamey, 18 August 2015 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) will organize on September 1-2, 2015 at the Hotel Belle Côte in Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) a meeting for the focal points of the eight (8) countries of West Africa for which the development of country profiles was programmed for the biennial period of 2014-2015. These are Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Niger, Nigeria and Senegal.
Niamey, 30 July 2015 (ECA) - In the sidelines of a workshop held this week to review the Regional Statistics Programme 2015-2020 of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, (WAEMU) in Niamey, Niger, the General Directors of the National Statistical Institutes of the Member countries of the WAEMU, the Head of the WAEMU Statistical Center, the Chief Economist in charge of Data and Statistics at the World Bank, based in Washington, and the Deputy Director of the Statistics Division of the Central Bank for West African States, (BCEAO) held a working m
Conakry, Guinea, 29 June 2015 (ECA) – On the invitation of H.E. Prof. Alpha Condé – the President of the Republic of Guinea, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) – Mr Carlos Lopes, paid an official visit to that West African country on 27 June 2015.
During the visit, the two leaders discussed several issues, at length, especially, the support that ECA would provide to Guinea, to help it revive its economy badly shaken by the Ebola scourge.