Description: School children. Access to education is an important aspect of the ASDI. Photo © Shutterstock. Image: Description: Morocco has applied the African Social Development Index to improve the integration of Sustainable Development Goals into its national development plan. Photo © Shutterstock Image: Description: The African Social Development Index is a multidimensional measure developed by the Social Development Policy Division of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The tool follows a lifecycle approach aimed at assessing progress in the reduction of exclusion in six dimensions of wellbeing, including health, education, employment and income, among others. Its key feature is its use at regional, national and subnational levels to assess the effects of exclusion between various countries, locations and groups of population. Image: Description: The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) offers a unique, pan-African pathway to finally reverse the old paradigm regarding management of the country’s mineral wealth. Photo courtesy. Image: Description: Launch of the African Minerals Development Centre in Maputo, Mozambique, December 2013. Photo © ECA Image: Description: For a long time, Africa’s resources have been exploited without benefiting the people, which led to the endorsement of the Africa Mining Vision (AMV) in 2009. Photo © Shutterstock Image: Description: Bauxite mining in Guinea. The Africa Mining Vision is designed to support African Governments in tackling the complex linkages that must be unlocked in order to make mineral resources truly developmental. Photo courtesy. Image: Description: In 2013, the African Minerals Development Centre was set up to implement the Africa Mining Vision and its Action Plan, in response to the need for a central and strategic organization. Photo © UNDP Image: Description: Deforestation and habitat degradation are continuing and population pressure is increasing. Both are affecting the integrity of the watersheds that provide critical water supplies. ClimDev-Africa’s objective is to ensure effective integration of climate information and services into development planning and to ensure the mainstreaming of climate considerations into policies and programme aimed at realizing the Millennium Development Goals. Photo: GREENBELT MOVEMENT Image: Description: Third Annual Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-III), organized by the African Climate Policy Centre, held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, 21–23 October 2013. Photo © ECA Image: Description: A weather station comprising of sensors for wind speed, wind direction, rain and temperature. In July 2017, the African Climate Policy Centre launched the second phase of the Weather and Climate Information Services for Africa (WISER), to be implemented within a span of three years. Photo Courtesy Image: Description: First African Climate Talks held in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania, September 2015. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Fourth Session of the African Regional Forum on Sustainable Development, held in Dakar, Senegal in May 2018. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Terra Satellite shows fire around the world. Credit: NASA Image: Description: Africa Pavilion official opening, the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations. Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Paris, November 2015. Shown cutting the symbolic ribbon are the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina; Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Carlos Lopes. Image: Description: An aerial view of a flood plain of Jangwani river, which separates Masaki and Oyster Bay in Dar es Salaam, the United Republic of Tanzania. Africa is the only region with a defined land policy agenda after ECA collaborated with the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank to establish the Land Policy Initiative in 2006. Photo: UNEQUAL VIEWS Image: Description: The second Steering Committee Meeting for the AU-ECA-AfDB Land Policy Initiative was held at the African Union Conference Centre on 4 November 2013. The Land Policy Initiative has carried out rigorous advocacy efforts at the regional level to ensure two things: that land remained a priority on the continental development agenda; and that the Initiative generated commitments on key land issues. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The second Conference on Land Policy in Africa held in Addis Ababa, November 2017. The conference was hosted by the Land Policy Initiative, which is a joint programme of the tripartite consortium consisting of the African Union Commission, the African Development Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa. Photo © ECA Image: Description: A regional consultative workshop on Land Policy in Central Africa. With agriculture and natural resourcebased sectors contributing substantially to Africa’s gross domestic product and to the livelihood of most Africans, the importance of effective land governance in agricultural transformation cannot be overemphasized. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: The second Conference on Land Policy in Africa was held under the theme “The Africa We Want: Achieving socioeconomic transformation through inclusive and equitable access to land by the youth” in Addis Ababa, 14–17 November 2017. Photo © ECA Image: Description: In 2012, ECA initiated and anchored the establishment of the African Biomedical Engineering Consortium (ABEC) to coordinate, promote and mobilize resources for its members. Photo courtesy Image: Description: The 3D printer assembled and used at Innovators Summer School 2013 by students (Pisa Engineers). Photo © ECA Image: Description: The African Biomedical Engineering Consortium and its partners successfully won a $1.5 million funding from the European Union for post-graduate training and staff exchange, and attracted another Euro 1.2 million to develop an Africa-Europe electronic platform for safe design of medical devices. At present, ABEC is exploring registration in Kenya or Uganda with possible national chapters in the pipeline. Photo © KNIPP Image: Description: A dumping ground for old medical equipment in Malawi. Africa spends $3 billion and $4 billion on medical devices to improve healthcare, but without spare parts or trained technicians, the devices stop working almost immediately, and equipment graveyards become their resting place. Photo © Stephen Rudy/Courtesy of Gradian Health. Image: Description: First meeting of the African Reginal Conference on Science held in Addis Ababa, 6 – 10 November 1995. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The Third Conference of African Ministers responsible for Civil Registration at the closing ceremony of the twenty-fourth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Union, which was held in Addis Ababa, 31 January 2015. The role of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) in attaining good governance in Africa as well as the need for good governance itself in conducting civil registration processes across the continent came under review at a regional conference held in Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire, 7 – 9 February 2015. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Dignitaries that attended the high-level meeting on the need for Africa to embark on a digital identification drive, convened by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC). Addis Ababa, 18 November 2018. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Trevor Manuel, former Finance Minister of South Africa (right) and H.E. Mrs. Tumusiime Rhoda, Peace Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, AUC at the 8th Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration and the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, at Addis Ababa, March 2015. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: The First Joint Session of the Committee of Directors Generals of National Statistical Offices and the Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa), held in Tunis from 8 to 12 December 2014, was hosted by the Statistics Division of the African Union Commission and the ECA African Centre for Statistics, in collaboration with the African Development Bank Statistics Department. The conference was held under the theme “Strengthening the production of agricultural statistics in Africa for better monitoring and evaluation of CAADP”. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The Geospatial Information for Sustainable Development in Africa (GI4SD) vision for the 2030 horizon on the African continent is “Advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development Agenda through sound Geospatial Information Management”. Photo © ECA. Image: