Economic Commission for Africa

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Annual Report 2005

• Economic Commission for Africa

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Introduction

• ECA Annual report (June 2004 to May 2005)
• Provides an overview of the major events and
  activities undertaken by the Commission
• The report also informs policy making at
• Country
• Regional
• Global levels

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Major Events

• ECA prepared African countries for the following
  important international events
• The ten- year review of the International
  Conference on Population and Development in
  Africa (ICPD10) (June 2004)
• The ten- year review of implementation of the
  Beijing Platform of Action (February 2005)
• The policy session of the Commission on
  Sustainable Development (CSD 13) focused on
  water, sanitation and human settlements (April
  2005)

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Major Events (contd)

• The forthcoming global review of the progress
  towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals
  MDGs (September 2005)
• The second phase of the World Summit on the
  Information Society (WSIS) (November 2005)
• Preparation of negotiating positions on WTO
  issues within the framework of the Doha
  Development Agenda
• Preparation for WTO Ministerial meeting to be
  held in Hong Kong (December 2005)

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ECA Programme of Work

• Objective To strengthen capacity of member
  States to design and implement appropriate
  economic and social policies and strategies for
  achieving sustained economic growth for poverty
  reduction in line with the priorities of
  Millennium Declaration and NEPAD. The eight (8)
  subprogrammes are
• Facilitating economic and social policy analysis
• Fostering sustainable development
• Strengthening development management
• Harnessing information for development

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ECA Programme of Work (contd)

• Objective To strengthen capacity of member
  States to design and implement appropriate
  economic and social policies and strategies for
  achieving sustained economic growth for poverty
  reduction in line with the priorities of
  Millennium Declaration and NEPAD
• Promoting trade and regional integration
• Promoting the advancement of women
• Supporting subregional activities for development
• Development planning and administration

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Major Activities / Products

• The Economic Report on Africa (ERA) 2005
• Assesses employment and poverty challenges
  facing Africa
• Proposes a series of employment-enhancing
  strategies to increase demand for labour,develop
  quality, skills and productivity of the workforce
  
• To improve workplace policies and conditions
• African Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
  Learning Group (PRSP-LG) has revealed that
• The first generation PRPs lacked enough emphasis
  on comprehensive growth strategies and the
  importance of employment creation to reduce
  poverty

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Major Activities / Products (contd)

• The second generation will need to focus on
  sources of growth with emphasis on the
  agricultural sector and global trade
• Plenary in Egypt (May 2005)
• Advisory Board on Statistics in Africa in 2004,
  in collaboration with
• The African Development Bank (ADB)
• The Partnerships in Statistics for Development in
  the 21st Century (Paris21) and
• World Bank

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Major Activities / Products (contd)

• African Gender Development Index (AGDI)
• African Governance Report (AGR)
• Assessment of Regional Integration in Africa
  (ARIA)

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Activities of ECA Subregional Offices

• At subregional level, ECA provided policy
  support to its member States and RECs through its
  five subregional Offices (SROs) as follows
• Central Africa
• Policy interventions on strengthening regional
  integration
• Enhanced policy dialogue on development issues
• Provided advisory services to ECCAS and CEMAC on
  informal trade, harmonization of transport
  programmes and development of work programmes
• Collaboration with BDEAC on attracting
  investments

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Activities of ECA subregional Offices

• East Africa
• Policy support to member States and RECs on
• Active role in Great Lakes Initiative for
  forthcoming UN/AU international Conference (May
  2005)
• Collaboration with COMESA, EAC, IGAD, Northern
  Corridor Transit Transport Agreement and CEPGL in
  enhancing regional integration

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Activities of ECA subregional Offices

• North Africa
• Policy interventions on enhancing policy dialogue
  on development issues
• Close collaboration with Secretariat of Arab
  Magreb Union (AMU), UNDP Regional Programme for
  ICTs for Development in Arab Region (ICTDAR) to
  develop telecommunications in the subregion

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Activities of ECA subregional Offices

• Southern Africa
• Policy support to its member States and RECs
• Close collaboration with SADC, EAC and COMESA in
  areas
• Transport development
• NEPAD
• Gender (COMESA Ministers of women affairs/Gender)

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Activities of ECA subregional Offices

• West Africa
• Supported its member States and Intergovernmental
  Organizations
• Assisted ECOWAS in preparation of Medium-Term
  Strategic Plan (MTSP)
• Collaboration with ADB,UEMOA,CEN-SAD and UNDP in
  APRM
• Preparation of West African investment Forum
  (2005)

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African Development Forum

• African Development Forum - ADF IV (October 2004)
• Organized in collaboration with ADB and AU under
  the theme Governance for a progressing Africa
• Over 1000 participants
• 10 Point Action Plan adopted

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African Development Forum (contd)

• African Development Forum - ADFV (2005)
• Work in progress
• Focuses on challenges for empowering the African
  youth in the 21st Century
• Many collaborators

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NEPAD

• NEPAD
• Regional Economic Communities (RECs) capacity
  building
• Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
  Programme (CAADP)
• Short-Term Action Plan for NEPAD (STAP)
• UN Regional Consultations
• Active support to APRM process and participated
  in six country missions (Ghana, Rwanda, Kenya,
  Mauritius, Uganda and Nigeria)

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Committee on Human Development and Civil Society-
  CHDCS (May 2005)
• Addressed policies for stakeholder participation
  in
• National budgeting
• Public-private partnership for social services
  delivery Water and sanitation
• APRM
• Committee in Development Information- CODI (April
  2005)
• Adopted a Plan of Action (PoA) aimed at
  accelerating progress in building an effective
  and knowledge economy to enhance economic growth
  and sustainable development in Africa.

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration
  CRCI (March 2005)
• Addressed policies and modalities for regional
  integration at national level, reviewed progress
  for greater inter-African trade and assessed
  status of WTO negotiations and EPAs
• Bureau of Committee on Sustainable Development
  CSD (November 2004)
• Discussed progress made in implementation of
  recommendations of CSD3 and define scope of work
  for CSD4
• Policy session of CSD13 focused on water,
  sanitation and human settlements (April 2005)

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICEs) of
  ECAs five subregional Offices. Major issues
  discussed included the following
• Twentieth ICE Meeting-North Africa (April 2005)
• Major issues discussed
• Improved macro-economic policies and
  diversification
• Womens economic participation
• Attainment of MDGs and NEPAD
• Water resources development
• Greater utilization of Information technologies
  in development
• Considered conclusions of workshop on Women
  Source of Wealth and Job opportunities

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Twenty Third ICE Meeting Central Africa (April
  2005)
• Discussed challenges and prospects of regional
  integration from viewpoint of sectoral
  development
• Progress made in implementation of NEPAD and
  attainment of MDGs
• Considered outcomes of ad hoc expert group
  meeting on Employment and poverty reduction
  strategies

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Eleventh ICE Meeting-Southern Africa (April 2005)
• Discussed sectoral dimension of the prevailing
  economic conditions in the subregion
• Particular attention to progress and prospects in
  implementing NEPAD and attaining MDGs
• Considered conclusions of the subregional
  workshop on EPAs negotiations

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Ninth ICE Meeting- East Africa (March 2005)
• Discussed issues related to
• Agriculture
• Food security
• Youth and employment
• Crosscutting issues such
• Outcomes of International Conferences on Great
  Lakes
• Workshop on WTO and EPAs negotiations

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Outcomes of meetings of Policy Organs

• Eighth ICE Meeting West Africa (March 2005)
• Discussed MDGs and NEPAD against prevailing
  socio-economic conditions in subregion
• Particular emphasis on
• Employment issues
• Possible hamonization of national accounts for
  facilitating macroeconomic convergence through
  ECOWAS Monetary Cooperation Programme

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Strengthening Partnerships to Address Africas
Development Challenges

• The Big Table
• African Development Forum (ADF)
• Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa
  (CHGA)
• A draft of the Mutual Review Report
• The Executive Secretary of ECA is a member of the
  Blair Commission

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Technical Cooperation

• Technical cooperation programme is on the
  following areas
• Statistics
• Water resource management
• Sustainable development
• Promoting good governance practices for achieving
  sustainable development
• Integrating gender concerns in development
• Harnessing information and communications
  technology for development
• Capacity building for trade negotiations within
  WTO multilateral framework

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Development Account

• Provides a common platform for technical
  cooperation requests that are unforeseen when the
  proposed programme budget for the Commission is
  formulated
• ECA has a portfolio of individual multi- year
  projects delivered mostly through advisory
  services and training, designed to build capacity
  (national, regional and sub regional focus) in
  strategic areas for socio- economic development
  in Africa
• The projects are formulated and implemented
  within a framework of the executive committee to
  avoid duplication and to optimize the use of
  scarce resources

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