Central Africa: Economic Diversification, Resilience, Free Trade At the Heart of UN Support to Central Africa

Officials of United Nations agencies and other development institutions working in Central Africa, as well as those of the General Secretariat of ECCAS and the CEMAC Commission… Read more »

Africa: Rwanda's Finance Minister Calls On Africa to Speedily Ratify Continental Free Trade Agreement

The 22nd Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of the Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa (ICE 2018) opened in Kigali Tuesday with Rwanda's Finance and Economic… Read more »

Central Africa: Central Africa's Free Trade Instruments Gaining Traction in DR Congo

A total of 49 leaders from the public and private sectors of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have completed a two-day training to appropriate rules of origin procedures… Read more »

Central Africa: UN Agencies, Partners to Firm-Up Common Support Programme for Central Africa

About 50 representatives and experts of UN bodies, the ECCAS General Secretariat and its specialized structures, the CEMAC Commission and its specialized organs, and other key… Read more »

Africa: Officials to Review Studies On Accountable Development Planning in Cameroon

About 70 stakeholders comprising executives and planning experts, statistics executives and experts, members of the civil society and representatives from the private sector will… Read more »

Africa: Spotlight On Financing 'Productive' SDGs in Cameroon As UN Hits 73

ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - How should stakeholders efficiently and effectively mobilize resources to finance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Cameroon, especially as… Read more »

Central Africa: Member States Urged to Explore Non-Traditional Sources of Financing in Central Africa

ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - "Financing industrialization is not only about chasing money," said Antonio Pedro, Director of the ECA Subregional Office for Central Africa. Read more »

Central Africa: Governments Urged to Fully Coordinate Fund-Sourcing for Industrialization

- From Chad to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the economies of Central Africa must fully industrialize to survive. But to do this, member States should systematically take a… Read more »

Central Africa: Central Africa Can Only Fully Industrialize If ...

- Low tax burdens, prohibitive conditions for access to loans, weak national saving ratios, unsustainable public debt, narrow funding funnels, negative policy perception indexes… Read more »

Chad: ECA and State Media to Popularize Chad's Diversification Agenda

ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - Chad's National Radio and Television network (ONRTV), has pledged to accompany the Subregional Office for central Africa of the UN Economic Commission… Read more »

Central Africa: Financing Industrialization in Central Africa - Actors Call for Better Enabling Environment and Innovative Approaches

ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - In a recent webinar on financing industrialization in Central Africa organized by the Subregional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic… Read more »

Africa: Minister commends ECA, pledges to speed up economic diversification in Chad

N’Djamena, 17 September 2018 (ECA www.uneca.org/sro-ca ) – Chad’s minister of economic planning and development, Issa Doubragne, has pledged his… Read more »

Central Africa: ECA to Cohost Country-Risk Conference On Industrialization in Central Africa

- The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is partnering with COFACE, to organize the first country-risk colloquium in Central Africa on 13 September 2018 in Douala, economic… Read more »

Central Africa: Experts to Weave Strategy for Financing Industrialization in Central Africa

- The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Chad are convening government representatives and experts in various development fields from across Central… Read more »

Cameroon: UN Report Urges Cameroon to Urgently Step Up Road-Safety Measures

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - The UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on Road Safety - Mr. Jean Todt today unveiled the Cameroon Road Safety Performance Review Report jointly… Read more »

Chad: Key Points for Chad's Industrialization and Economic Diversification Hatched

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Government of Chad are firming up the Action Plan for the Elaboration of the Economic Diversification… Read more »

Equatorial Guinea: High Notes Sounded for Equatorial Guinea's Quest to Reverse Dependency On Oil

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - Members of Government, State technocrats, private-sector players and non-State actors of Equatorial Guinea have concurred with officials of the UN… Read more »

Africa: Equatorial Guinea Keen On Economic Diversification Dialogue With Eca

Policy makers and other major development players in Equatorial Guinea are exuding keen interest in the first major high-level development policy dialogue to be held in the country… Read more »

Africa: Experts Trained to Help Remove Barriers to Sub-Regional Trade

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - The Permanent Secretary of Cameroon's Ministry of Trade - Mr. Achille Bassilekin III, on behalf of his Minister, has reiterated to the authorities of… Read more »

Africa: Journalists in Cameroon Learn Ways to Catalyze Integration of Climate Information Into Economic Planning

Cotonou, Bénin (PANA) - On the 25 June 2018, training of journalists on mainstreaming of climate information and services in planning and economic development processes was… Read more »

Gabon: Free Trade - Gabonese Experts Trained On the Eccas-Cemac Preferential Tariff

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - A milestone on free trade in Central Africa has been reached, thanks to the launch of a series of training sessions for economic stakeholders and… Read more »

Cameroon: Cameroon to Systematically Fit Urbanization Indicators Into Its Development Plans

"As African countries seek to achieve inclusive economic growth to combat poverty, unemployment, inequality and informality, among other challenges, it is imperative that their… Read more »

Africa: Stakeholders At Work to Mainstream Urbanization in Cameroon's Development Planning

ECA - www.uneca.org/sro-ca) - Experts are at work to thread together Cameroon's action plan for optimally integrating urbanization concerns into the country's National Development… Read more »

Africa: Now Is the Time for Quality Economic Diversification in Cameroon

- The Douala Consensus, a call by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) for the rapid diversification and industrialization of economies of Central African countries,… Read more »

Cameroon: New Profile By ECA Urges Cameroon to Step Up Manufacturing and Reduce Social Inequalities

- Despite its laudable development plans as well as the rising level of transformation of its local products, Cameroon still has big gaps to plug in terms of the structural… Read more »