West Africa
Statistics and Civil Registration experts converge in Yamoussoukro on 'data revolution for good governance'
Yamoussoukro, 9 February 2015 (ECA–AUC) - The Experts meeting that kicked off today 9 February 2015 at the Fondation Houphouet-Boigny pour la recherche et la Paix in Yamoussoukro, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, will focus on the theme: “ Promoting the use of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics in support of Good Governance in Africa”, ahead of the Conference of African Ministers responsible for civil registration scheduled for Thursday 12 February 2015.
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Media workshop holds ahead of civil registration and vital statistics conference
Yamoussoukro, 9 February 2015 (ECA-AUC) - The African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) on Sunday 8 February 2015 organised a pre-conference media workshop to equip the national and international journalists covering the ministerial conference on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) with the necessary knowledge to help them do their work efficiently and accurately through their respective media channels.
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Dakar will host the 18th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for West Africa
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Dakar will host the 18th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts for West Africa
Niamey, 05 February 2015 (ECA) - On March 18-19, 2015, the King Fahd Hotel in Dakar, Senegal will host the 18th meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of the 15 Member states of West Africa and their strategic partners on the theme, “Towards a structural transformation of the economies of the West African sub-region through the development of infrastructures”.
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Launching in West Africa of the Report on the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa
Launching in West Africa of the Report on the Socio-Economic Impacts of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Africa
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Togo adopts tool to enhance gender equality
Lome, Togo 19 December 2013: The Republic of Togo launched its African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) report on 19 December 2013 following its implementation in 2012 with the technical and financial support of the African Center for Gender (ACG), which has been working with 24 countries to implement the tool.
The AGDI - a gender equality planning and monitoring tool - was developed by ECA in 2004 with the objective of responding to the lack of statistics within African member States to implement their global and regional commitments on gender equality and women's empowerment.
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Annual Meeting in Dakar of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism of United Nations System support in West Africa
Annual Meeting in Dakar of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism of United Nations System support in West Africa
Niamey, October 31, 2014 (ECA). The annual meeting of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) of United Nations System support for the implementation of priority projects of the NEPAD and of the Community Development Programme (CDP) of the ECOWAS will be held at the King Fahd Palace Hotel in Dakar, Senegal,on november 20-21, 2014.
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Côte d’Ivoire looks to PPPs for development
Public-private partnerships are a pillar of the West African country’s resurgence, says President Alassane Ouattara.
Marrakesh, 14 October 2014 (ECA) - Côte d’Ivoire has set itself a target of becoming an emerging market in 2020, according to its president, Alassane Outtara, who wants to drive private sector investment in the country, which is recovering from decades of political turmoil.
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Industrialisation is an obligation for Africa – Ivorian Prime Minister
Abidjan, 02 October 2014 (ECA) – “I am particularly impressed by the pertinence of the recommendations of the Economic Report on Africa 2014, which totally reflect the objectives of our reform process, especially given that Côte d’Ivoire is among the 11 African countries used for its case studies,” declared Mr Daniel Kablan Duncan, Prime Minister of that country today in Abidjan. He made the statement during the launch of the Report, jointly published by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union (AU).
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