This paper presents A Study of the economic empowerment of women and their role in the socio-economic development of Africa held in August 1996, at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This is an opportune time and a crucial moment for women to have input and for
stakeholders to be sensitized to the gender dimension of ICT policy. Policy must take into
account the needs of women, as well as men, at all ...
The empowerment and autonomy of women and the improvement of their social,
economic and political status are essential factors in the achievement of both
transparent and accountable government and administration, as well ...
This is a document of The First Session of the Committee on Statistics
(STATCOM-I), it has The ACS 2008-2009 programme of work, which took place in Addis-Ababa (Ethiopia), from 20-25 January 2008.
This proposal makes the case for a Program or Foundation for the Advancement of Africa Economics. This program will offer research grants, sponsor workshops and seminars and ultimately have teaching/curricular programs as ...
This paper reviews progress made on the African continent in the theme Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women since the adoption of the Dakar and Beijing Declarations. It incorporates assessments from various ...
The paper argues that progress in the political empowerment of women has been slow. That 10 per cent of the members of legislative bodies were women in 1995 and the figure is only around 11 per cent in 1999. The commitments ...
This report results from the two working documents commissioned by ECA to assess the priority concerns of the Dakar Platform and the Beijing Programme as well as the conclusions of the workshop held on this theme during ...
This report aims to assess the progress made in the implementation of the Dakar Platform for Action and the Beijing Programme of Action with regard to women’s education, five years after the conferences. It deals specifically ...
The present report is prepared in connection with the mid-decade review of the progress achieved in the implementation of the Dakar Platform and the Beijing Programme. It strives to assess the progress made in the ...
The present report aims to evaluate the progress made by African countries in implementing the recommendations on Women’s health, family planning and development. It identifies the constraints to women’s health priorities.
African governments and international organizations expressed their commitments to implementing the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action in their declarations and speeches at the Dakar and Beijing conferences on women. ...
This report was prepared for the Sixth African Regional Conference on Women held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 22 to 26 November 1999. The report assesses the impact of the activities that Governments and United Nations ...
This report was prepared for the Sixth African Regional Conference on Women held in Addis Ababa from 22 to 27 November 1999. The Conference provided an opportunity to review the overall implementation of the African Platform ...
This report was prepared in connection with the Sixth African Regional Conference on Women’s mid-decade review of the implementation of the Dakar Platform for Action and the Beijing Programme of Action. It attempts to ...
The Co-coordinating Committee on African Statistical Development (CASD) carried out a full independent evaluation of the achievements, failures, constraints and facilitating factors in meeting the objectives of the Addis ...
The study begins with an overview of the trends in privatization in Sub-Saharan Africa in the last decade and half. Against this background: First, the study focuses on review of the issue, the rationale and the problems ...
The objective of the study on Morocco is to review the sectoral policy and strategy for infrastructure building and maintenance in order to identify the key factors contributing to the success and sustainability of capacity ...
Pour améliorer la gouvernance économique et des entreprises en Afrique, le Comité des Chefs d'Etat et de gouvernement charge de la mise en œuvre du NEPAD, à sa réunion d’octobre 2001, a estimé que les dirigeants africains ...
After almost four decades of bureaucratic inertia, African air transport is at a crossroads, seeking to
steer its direction towards the creation of an environment propitious for a viable, efficient and sustainable ...