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Every two years since 2014, the African Land Policy Centre (ALPC), a joint initiative of the African Union Commission, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and the African Development ...
Addis Ababa, 4 June 2025 (ECA) – Zimbabwe is overhauling how it tracks gender equality, following national consensus on a unified monitoring and reporting framework to fix fragmented systems, outdated ...
Addis Ababa, 31 May 2025 (ECA) - Mr. Antonio Pedro, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), has said that Africa is experiencing significant losses, estimated at ...
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 27 May 2025 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) convened a Regional Dialogue on ...
Cape Town, 20 May 2025 - African policymakers are stepping up calls for greater transparency and fairness in how global credit rating agencies assess sovereign risk, warning that opaque and ...
FIRST AFRICAN UNION DEBT CONFERENCE Theme: Africa’s Public Debt Management Agenda in Restoring and Safeguarding Debt Sustainability Opening Remarks By Mr. Claver Gatete United Nations ...
Lomé, Togo, 12 May 2025 – Over 500 delegates, including Heads of State, Ministers of Finance, Central Bank Governors, development partners, and civil society organizations gathered in Lomé for the ...
ERA 2025: With effective implementation, the AfCFTA can open alternative markets to sectors affected by the global tariff wars ...
Kampala, Uganda, 10 April 2025 (ECA) – A side event at the Eleventh Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD) brought together policymakers, economists, and development ...
Windhoek, Namibia, 8 April 2025 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa, Sub-Regional Office for Southern Africa (ECA SRO-SA) organised a consultative meeting on 8 April 2025 in Windhoek, Namibia ...
Kampala, 7 April 2025 (ECA) - The United Nations and the African Union (AU) are creating synergy in implementing the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Agenda ...
Addis Ababa, 3 April 2025 (ECA) - Why borrowing is so expensive for African nations is no longer just a technical debate. It is a question with billion-dollar consequences. Imagine a scenario, as of ...