Description: 1964 African Development Bank (AfDB) was established through resolution 96(VI).
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Description: 1969 Conference of Ministers (COM) established by resolution 188 (IX) as the highest legislative organ of the Commission and composed of the Ministers of Governments of the member States responsible for economic and social development planning.
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Description: 1975 African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) established under Conference of Ministers resolution 269 (XII).
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Description: 1979 The “Monrovia Declaration of Commitment of the Heads of State and Government of the OAU on the guidelines and measures for national and collective self-reliance in economic and social development for the establishment of a new international economic order” was adopted by African Heads of State and Government at their sixteenth ordinary session, held in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Description: 1986 Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (APPER) was prepared jointly by ECA and the Organization of African Unity and adopted by African Heads of State and Government.
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Description: 1989 African Charter for Social Action, adopted by African Ministers of Social Affairs. The Conference of Minsters in its resolution 676 (XXIV) adopted the African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes (AAF-SAP).
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Description: 1991 Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (IDDA II): 1991 – 2000 was instituted. Second Transport and Communications Decade in Africa (UNTACDA II): 1991 – 2000 was instituted.
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Description: 1994 Fifth African Regional Conference on Women (preparatory Conference to the Fourth World Conference on Women. Beijing) held in Dakar. Senegal. African Platform for Action: African common position for the advancement of women was adopted.
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Description: 1996 Serving Africa better: strategic directions for the Economic Commission for Africa (strategic framework document outlining ECA reform and renewal process) was endorsed by the thirty-first session of the Commission. The African Information Society Initiative (AISI), was launched in 1996 by resolution 812(XXXI) and adopted by the ECA Conference of Ministers.
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Description: 2001 NEPAD is formally adopted as an integrated socio-economic development framework for Africa by the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of OAU held in Lusaka, Zambia, in July 2001.
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Description: 2004 ECA member States endorsed the African Gender Development Index (AGDI) during Beijing Plus Ten Review in Addis Ababa in October 2004.
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Description: 2009 The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) was endorsed to offer a unique, pan- African pathway to finally reverse the old paradigm regarding the management of Africa’s mineral wealth.
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Description: 2015 The African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) was designated to host WMO’s Regional Climate Centre (RCC) to serve the Africa region.
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