Africa: Abuja Summit To Endorse ADF 2000 Consensus On Fighting HIV/AIDS

The African Development Forum (ADF) Consensus and Plan of Action agreed in Addis Ababa in December 2000 is to be endorsed by Africa's leaders next week, when they convene in Abuja,… Read more »

Africa: Abuja Summit to Endorse ADF 2000 Consensus On Fighting HIV/Aids

The African Development Forum (ADF) Consensus and Plan of Action agreed in Addis Ababa in December 2000 is to be endorsed by Africa's leaders next week, when they convene in Abuja,… Read more »

Africa: ECA Calls For Reversal Of AIDS Pandemic

"Our continent did not have to be devastated like this by HIV/AIDS. We should not have allowed it to get to this stage and we therefore have the responsibility to reverse the… Read more »

Africa: Amoako Proposes New Global Compact With Africa

"The UNCTAD Conference is being referred to as the 'New global deal for least developed countries'," said Mr. K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa… Read more »

Africa: Frank Dialogue Between Africa And The OECD

Finance ministers from several African countries meet Monday at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa with their Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development… Read more »

Africa: Ministers To Review Positions On Globalization, Financing Development

More than 30 African Ministers of Finance and Trade, joined by Governors of Central Banks and leading economists and development experts, will meet at the headquarters of the… Read more »

Africa: Continental Development Forum on AIDS Posptponed

The second African Development Forum (ADF 2000), originally scheduled to be held from 22 - 26 October 2000 on the theme 'AIDS: The Greatest Leadership Challenge', will now take… Read more »

Africa: Sharing Knowledge to Enrich Research, Training And Policy Making

Some 35 experts from a wide cross-section of African research and capacity building institutions are to meet here tomorrow to launch the Africa Knowledge Networks Forum (AKNF). Read more »

Africa: African Development Forum online discussion on AIDS

The Economic Commission for Africa, as organiser of the African Development Forum 2000, invites you to participate in A GLOBAL ONLINE DISCUSSION ON AIDS: The GREATEST LEADERSHIP… Read more »

Africa: Are African Concerns Adequately Reflected In The Outcomes Document?

African Delegates Voice Their Opinions - "Issues of concerns to African women like education, the girl-child, AIDS are of course adequately mentioned. The problem is that we are… Read more »

Africa: The Spirit Of Beijing Is Alive And Well

The Ist Plenary Meeting of the Twenty-third Special Session of the General Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century",… Read more »

Africa: New Report Assesses Progress In Microcredit Programmes

A report released today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, surveying 1, 065 microcredit institutions, has found that as at 31 December 1999, these programmes had reached 13.8… Read more »

Africa: Africa Fields Strong Presence At Beijing

- Five years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, some 10,000 representatives of governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental and non- governmental… Read more »

Africa: ECA Launches New CD-Rom On Status Of Africa's Women

- ECA's African Centre for Women (ACW) today officially launched the first edition of 'The Status of Women in Africa' a new CD-ROM containing comprehensive gender-disaggregated… Read more »

Africa: Enhancing India-Africa Cooperation in the Information Age

The following is Full Text Of An Address Delivered By Mr. K.Y. Amoako, UN Under Secretary General And Executive Secretary Of The Economic Commission For Africa (Eca)On Tuesday 11… Read more »

Africa: ECA 2000 Recruitment Campaign

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional arm of the United Nations in Africa, is a vibrant and dynamic organization with a mission to meet… Read more »

Africa: Claiming the 21st Century: Africa's Agenda By Dr. K. Y.

On 1 January, the dawn of the new millennium, worldwide images of jubilation flashed across our television screens. One ceremony stood out for its sheer simplicity. In the cell… Read more »

Africa: Can Africa's Brain Drain Be Stemmed?

Leading development and capacity building experts from Africa and beyond will attend a major regional conference here next week, to assess the impact of the brain drain on Africa's… Read more »

Africa: International Policies, African Realities

This is to invite your participation in "International Policies, African Realities", an electronic roundtable co-sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa… Read more »

Africa: Plans Unveiled To Speed Implementation Of Dakar/ Beijing Platforms

The Sixth African Regional Conference on Women ended here today with a Regional Plan of Action which maps out priorities and strategies for the next five years to accelerate the… Read more »

Africa: Gender Experts To Review Africa's Progress Since Beijing

Some 1,500 participants drawn from senior levels of governments, civil society, regional institutions, bilateral agencies, agencies of the United Nations, and multilateral partners… Read more »

Africa: Meetings organized by ECA in the month of November 1999

1-2 November - Meeting of Partners in Information and Communication Technology for Africa (PICTA). Focal Division: Development Information Services Division (DISD). Contact: Ms.… Read more »

Africa: ADF Summary - Feedback on Youth Focus Group

Chaired by Heba Ramzy of RITSEC, Egypt, the youth group identified a number of concerns they shared as the future working population and leaders in Africa. Acknowledging that ICTs… Read more »

Africa: Indicators for the information economy and their relevance to Africa

In this breakout group session, Heather Hudson from the Acacia Program, IDRC, Canada, and Peter Benjamin of the University of Witwatersland, made presentations. Read more »

Africa: Breakout sessions on Democratizing Access

A breakout session within the framework of democratizing access to the information age focused on community applications. Various models of community-based multipurpose centers… Read more »