Description: ECA has carried out advocacy work to establish civil registration since 1964, which contributed to the creation of the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) and the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of CRVS in 2010 which led to the increase in birth registration rates in Africa from 40 per cent to 56 per cent during a period of three years between 2012 and 2015. Photo © Shutterstock. Image: Description: This photo shows a bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano- Sahelian zone of Mali, West Africa as captured on 1 April 1986. On April 1987, an African weather office – African Centre of Meteorological Application for Development (ACMAD) – was established in Niamey, Niger, to respond to the drastic fall in agricultural production caused by the devastating drought between 1983 and 1985. Photo © United Nations Image: Description: The Landsat image was taken in June 2018, which shows a shrinking lake Chad in West Africa. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development contributes to the strengthening of Africa’s resilience to extreme weather events by improving the understanding of atmospheric and climatic processes throughout the continent. Photo © EARTHSHOTS Image: Description: Cocoa pods in Côte d’Ivoire. Climate models suggest that West Africa, where much of the world’s cocoa is grown, will get drier, which could affect the supply. The African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development in Niamey, the Niger was established to strengthen Africa’s resilience to extreme weather events by improving the understanding of atmospheric and climatic processes throughout the continent. Photo/ISSOUF SANOGO/GETTY IMAGES Image: Description: A young girl wades into water where the family kitchen once stood in Diamniadio Island, Saloum Delta in Senegal. Rising water levels caused by rising global temperatures have led to frequent flooding in the delta. The rising sea also has increased salt levels in the nearby water, poisoning the soil and killing crops. Photo © Jane Hahn/AP. Image: Description: A Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) weather station in Lela, Southwestern Kenya. With an eye on the weather, farmers rely on the crops they grow. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Image: Description: In her remarks during the Leaders Commitment Segment of the Sustainable Blue Economy Conference, which was held in Nairobi on 26 November 2018, the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera Songwe, said the entire Africa’s blue economy was capable of generating approximately $4 trillion annually if properly harnessed. Photo/ AltAfrica Image: Description: La Digue Island, Seychelles. African countries are eyeing oceans for tourism, industrial fishing and exploration revenue to jumpstart their blue economies. Photo © Shutterstock Image: Description: A snorkeler explores a coral reef in the coastal waters. Marine and coastal tourism in Africa can be developed based on Blue Economy. While Blue Economy is complementary to the Green Economy approach in its pursuit of sustainability, it is a concept with much broader development significance for Africa, covering both aquatic and marine spaces. Photo © Ami Vitale Image: Description: Launch of the Blue Economy Policy Handbook for Africa in Addis Ababa, 3 April 2016. Seen from left to right: former ECA Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes; Director of the Subregional Office for East Africa, Antonio M.A. Pedr;o and the late veteran Franco- Senegalese journalist, Jean-Karim Fall. Photo © ECA Image: Description: GREEN ENERGY: A newly commissioned wind turbine for electricity generation in Mauritania. The Subregional Office for North Africa is supporting preparation of the country’s voluntary national report, which will be submitted by the Mauritanian Government to the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in 2019. Photo Courtesy Image: Description: During the thirty-third meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts of the Arab Maghreb Union in Tunis, on Friday 2 November 2018, the ECA Subregional Office for North Africa tabled a report taking stock of Sustainable Development Goals implementation and progress in the Maghreb countries. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: Regional Forum on Developmental Regionalism, Peace and Economic Transformation in Southern Africa. Organized by the Subregional Office for South Africa and the African Peacebuilding Network and Social Science Research Council in collaboration with the Southern African Development Community secretariat, and hosted by the Government of Swaziland (now known as Eswatini) at the Royal Swazi Spa Resort in Ezulwini, 28-30 September, 2016. Photo/ African Peacebuilding Network. Image: Description: Manufacturing production has been increasing faster in sub-Saharan Africa than in the rest of the world, and it now makes up a greater share in world manufacturing than fifteen years ago. Photo © GO BOTSWANA Image: Description: A textile factory in South Africa. Photo © Shutterstock Image: Description: A protestor in an anti-corruption march in South Africa. Corruption has a debilitating effect on the lives of billions of people around the world and usually, it’s the most vulnerable members of society that are the hardest hit. Photo courtesy Image: Description: Minister of Finance of Namibia, Calle Schlettwein, launching the Africa Governance Report IV in Addis Ababa, 2 April 2016. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Pupils from Munali Girls and Boys Secondary Schools Anti–Corruption Clubs raising awareness through a poem on the danger of corruption. Photo: Moses Zangar, Jr./UNDP in Zambia Image: Description: The ECA Subregional Office for Southern Africa in collaboration with the African Union’s Southern Africa Office, launched two major initiatives to help the region to scale up its fight against corruption. Photo COURTESY Image: Description: Image: Description: SUBREGIONAL PRESENCE: The first meeting of the new Central African Subcommission of the Economic Commission for Africa was held from 18 to 24 April 1966 in Leopoldville, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo © ECA Image: Description: MOBILITY: Signing ceremony of the Constitution of the Trans-East African Highway in Sudan on 19 December 1980. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Construction work at the Kribi Deep Sea Port, located in the southwest of Cameroon. Thanks to the Central Africa Consensual Transport Master Plan framework and its own development needs, Cameroon concluded a study on the construction of the deep-sea port of Kribi in 2005 and completed the project in 2015, which has enabled the docking of vessels of up to 100,000 tons. Photo © CHEC Image: Description: Dakar, Senegal: An African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) course on “Social Policy for Development Planners” in Dakar, 6 – 17 August 2018, which brought together 26 participants from various African countries. Image: Description: African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP) at 50 years. IDEP staff holding a plaque for the golden Jubilee. Photo © ECA Image: Description: IDEP development seminar on the Theme: “Winning the fight against corruption in Africa” - Dakar, 24 May 2018. Photo © ECA Image: Description: IDEP development seminar on the Theme: “Winning the fight against corruption in Africa” - Dakar, 24 May 2018. Photo © ECA Image: Description: In line with its mandate to provide training to officials of Member States, the African Institute for Economic Development and Planning organized a course on 9 November 2018 on the theme: “Domestic resource mobilization and investment in Africa”. This theme is of crucial importance given the ongoing difficulties faced by Africa as it strives to mobilize resources to finance its development. Photo © ECA Image: Description: ECA Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, with Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, and Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations on 18 November 2018 at the 11th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during which the ECA and the African Union Commission (AUC) convened a high-level meeting on the need for Africa to embark on a digital identification drive. Photo © ECA Image: