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Institutional Repository

Our Institutional Repository (IR) is a unique collection of digital contents, generated by the Commission in its role as the Premier Think tank in Africa. It represents the corporate memory, providing historical evidence of its actions and decisions, and providing seamless access to its rich variety of research outputs.

Libguides

Exploit our library catalogue to search bibliographic references, identify and consult an extensive collection of information resources available, including published and unpublished materials such as flagship publications, journal articles, conference proceedings, technical reports, mission reports, annual reports, working papers, speeches and other grey literature, relevant to the African continent.

Multimedia Repository

ECA Multimedia Repository offers a unique source of knowledge and information resources captured in their original formats, providing historical evidence and insights into regional programmes, projects, decisions, actions, and resolutions promoting socioeconomic development in Africa.

ASKIA

Access to Scientific and Socio-economic Information in Africa (ASKIA) is an online interactive knowledge portal, built on a federated search engine, providing access to scientific knowledge from Africa, on Africa, to Africa and the World, based on the SDG Taxonomies.

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Institutional Repository

Our Institutional Repository (IR) is a unique collection of digital contents, generated by the Commission in its role as the Premier Think tank in Africa. It represents the corporate memory, providing historical evidence of its actions and decisions, and providing seamless access to its rich variety of research outputs.

Library Catalogue (LIBCAT)

Multimedia Repository

ASKIA

From Ideas to Actions for a Prosperous Africa

ECA's mandate to promote the economic and social development of its member States and the achievement of the 2030 and 2063 development agendas in Africa is centred on the Commission’s three core functions, namely:

Convening,Think Tank, and Operational Functions

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Regional Integration & Trade

Focuses on the central role of achieving effective regional cooperation and economic integration among member States by supporting efforts to deepen regional markets, boost intra-African trade and global trade, accelerate industrialization and tackle the challenges of structural transformation.

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Data & Statistics

Focuses on improving the production, dissemination, and use of high-quality and comparable data and statistics in Africa to support evidence-based policymaking, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting for the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063.

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Private Sector Development & Finance

Contributes to the achievement of sustainable, inclusive, and equitable human and social development in Africa.

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Macroeconomics & Governance

Supports the achievement of Africa’s development agenda through development planning, macroeconomic policy and economic governance, and public finance.

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Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy

Supports the achievement of Africa’s development agenda through development planning, macroeconomic policy and economic governance, and public finance.

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Gender Equality & the Empowerment of Women

Support member States in their efforts to achieve gender equality and women’s empowerment by accelerating the implementation of relevant policies, mechanisms and tools as well as the monitoring and evaluation of their international commitments.

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Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resource Management

Supports the efficient management of natural resource endowments; reducing the negative impacts of climate change by moving towards green transitions and climate-resilient development and harnessing new technologies in the context of sustainable development.

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LibGuides — Innovation & Tech Natural Resource Management Sustainable Development