WIC
30 March 2007
Addis Ababa — Activities undertaken in Africa towards meeting the MDGs during the last seven years have achieved encouraging results, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) said.
While opening the 26th conference of African Finance, Plan and Economic Development Ministers yesterday, UNECA Executive Secretary Abdulahi Djanneh said the MDGs could be met by 2015 if the countries keep up the results they attained in the past.
He said the efforts to meet the MDGs succeeded in bringing about promising results because nations in the continent showed commitment to work in collaboration to lift the continent out of poverty and backwardness and stressed that they need to further bolster their commitment to bring about rapid development and growth.
The Executive Secretary further stressed that they need to give due attention to expanding investment, community development, science and technology, environmental protection, infrastructure, education, and health.
Djanneh added that the ongoing activities of looking for resources for the realization of the development goals should be further enhanced.
Ethiopian State Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mekonnen Manyazewal said on his part that the government has designed and implemented all-round sustainable development and poverty reduction programme to alleviate poverty.
He said the programme has created capacity to the country which would help meet the MDGs.
As a result, the country has scored economic growth for the fourth consecutive year, the State Minister said, adding that the government is implementing wide-ranging activities to ensure the sustainability of the growth.
The five-day conference is expected to deliberate on targets that would enable African countries to register rapid development and tackling the challenges posed against attaining the MDGs.
Some 200 participants from finance, plan and economic development ministries, central banks, education and research institutions across the continent as well as international partners are attending the conference.
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