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Sustainable Economic Growth, Poverty Reduction and Gender
Up one levelThis community of practice will ensure that ECA continues to place due emphasis on issues such as eradication of poverty as well as the need to place African countries on the path of sustainable economic growth, while accelerating the empowerment of women. African countries have made real effort to integrate the MDGs into their national development plans and budgets. However, given the current trends and contexts, with few exceptions, it is generally feared that Africa as a continent may not meet most of the MDG targets within the set timeframes. Hence one of the focus of this community of practice will be in ECA’s work on MDGs that will revolve around growth and poverty reduction, sustainable development and food security, gender and social development. Moreover major challenge for African countries is to reach and sustain high levels of economic growth. Key to reaching this objective are factors such as stable and conducive macroeconomic policies and access to development finance. This community of practice will also tackle these issues under this broad thematic strategy.
Climate & Sustainable Development in Africa
The related work in this service line will aim at providing African countries and their Regional Economic Communities with (1) analytical work and capacity to mainstream climate related concerns in their development policies, strategies and plans (2) capacity to benefit from the emerging carbon trading system and adaptation/mitigation financing, and 3) capacity to participate more effectively in international policy discussions on climate change that will influence their economic and social development, particularly the development of a broad, ambitious and equitable post-2012 climate agreement.
Poverty Reduction Strategies and MDGs
The underlying rationale for the MDGs is development with equity which requires poverty eradication and the promotion of gender equality. These are key objectives of national development strategies and ECA will contribute to the achievement of these goals by, inter alia, becoming a repository of knowledge for the region; assisting its member States to develop performance indicators and statistics for MDG planning; tracking, as well as building capacity through strengthened statistics departments and training activities.
Gender equality and women's advancement
This service line will focus on promoting gender-related issues, including the promotion of women’s human and legal rights, the analysis of gender disaggregated data and the indispensable role of women in socio-economic development. The service line will enable ECA to continue to give prominence to this area in all its activities.
Macroeconomic policy analysis
African countries are vulnerable to external shocks from the rest of the world as well as rising oil prices, declining aid flows, and sharply declining commodity prices, which have deleterious impact on their balance of payments and fiscal revenues. These challenges require appropriate macroeconomic policies and improved economic governance in both the public and private sector. ECA can be of help in this regard through continued support for mutual accountability, providing advice, advocating policy options, and building capacity for research, economic forecasting and policy analysis in member States.
Human social development
This service line will bring together issues relating to population and migration policies, health (including HIV/AIDS), education and other related social issues. This arrangement will enable social elements of the MDGs to be properly reflected in ECA’s activities.
Environment and sustainable development
The objectives of this service line is to: - provide participants with an in-depth view and knowledge of the process involved in the development and implementation of NSSDs, including technical aspects and tools for strategy design; - build regional, sub-regional and national capacities for managing progress towards sustainable development through cooperation, networking and exchange of experiences and lessons learned in the NSSD process; - build a critical mass of informed sustainable development experts and practitioners from government, the private sector, academia, research institutions and civil society at large; and - foster cooperation and collaboration among Africa’s development partners and agencies active in the field of sustainable development in general, and in particular, those that are engaged in the promotion of strategic and coordinated actions for sustainable development.
Land Policy and Administration - The AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative
Recognising the need to address land related challenges in order to achieve social and economic development, improve natural resource management and achieve peace and security, the three tri-partite partners of the African Union Commission (AUC), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), under the overall leadership of the African Union (AU), are spearheading an initiative aimed at assisting African governments, their stakeholders and partners to facilitate secure access to land with a view to facilitating broad based development, started work in 2005.
Financing development / capital flow
This service line will focus on the task of understanding and analyzing the challenges and prospects of development finance to achieve sustained growth and poverty reduction in Africa through rigorous policy-oriented research. It provides support to member States, African institutions, academics, the private sector and civil society. It also engages in policy advocacy work in the area of development finance. The service line focuses mainly on key elements of development finance such as Foreign Aid, Debt, Private Capital Flows, Savings, and Remittances. Recent and ongoing research activities include: Financing Development in Africa: trends, issues and challenges; Financing economic growth to reduce poverty by half in 2015 in Africa; Current account sustainability in Africa; Profile and determinants of aid in Africa; and Capital Market Development in Africa.
Youth and Leadership in the 21st Century
This community of practice aims at providing a platform to facilitate follow up to the Fifth African Development Forum (ADF-V) on “Youth and Leadership in the 21st Century”, by enhancing knowledge sharing between members of the Post-ADF-V Steering Committee, namely, ECA, the African Union, UNICEF, UNFPA, ILO, IOM, UNDP, and OHCHR, in addition to the youth organizations and networks operating at the sub-regional and regional levels. Moreover, this community of practice will promote the coordination of activities in the context of accelerating the popularization, ratification and implementation of the African Youth Charter and the Year of African Youth 2008.
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