Description: PARTENERSHIPS: The former Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Alpha Konare; Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; and the Under-Secretary-General and the Executive Secretary of ECA, Abdoulie Janneh, signing the Enhancing UN-AU Cooperation Declaration in Addis Ababa, November 2006. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Executive Secretary of ECA, Carlos Lopes, meeting with Joint Financing Agreement Partners in Addis Ababa on 5 December 2014. Photo © ECA Image: Description: AU- ECA Conference of Ministers 2015. The Eighth Joint AUC-ECA Annual Meetings of the AU Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development held from 25-31 March 2015 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the theme, Implementing Agenda 2063 - Planning, Mobilizing and Financing for Development. Photo © UNECA. Photo © UNECA Image: Description: Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony by ECA and Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa. ECA and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Addis Ababa on 3 April 2016, on the margins of the Africa Development Week 2016. Shown are: Executive Secretary, Carlos Lopes, and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) delegate, Director-General, Sidi Ould Tah. Photo © ECA Image: Description: A high-level panel discussion held at United Nations Headquarters on the theme, “The Africa We Want: Support of the United Nations system to the African Union’s Agenda 2063” on 13 October 2014. The event was co-organized by the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa, the Office of the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the Economic Commission for Africa, the Department of Public Information and the African Peer Review Mechanism Secretariat (APRM). Pictured: The Special Adviser to the Sec Image: Description: Chairperson of African Union Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, with the Chief Executive Officer of the African Union Commission, Ebrahim Assane Mayaki, and the Under-Secretary-General, Carlos Lopes, during a working breakfast of the twentyninth session of the New Partnerships for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Heads of States and Government Orientation Committee at African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. Image: Description: The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Senior Policy and Technical Coordinator, Maxwell Mkumba, making his remarks during the official opening of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism Meeting for Eastern and Southern Africa. With him, from left to right: ECA Subregional Office for Southern Africa, Said Ademujobi; ECA Deputy Executive Secretary, Giovanie Biha; and the East African Community Deputy Secretary-General in charge of Planning and Infrastructure, Enos Bukuku. Image: Description: Participants at the nineteenth session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa in Addis Ababa, May 2018. The session was under the theme “UN support to AU in winning the fight against corruption”. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: A voter casts her ballot at the polling station at Odangwa in Ovamboland in November 1989. In November 1989, 23 years after the United Nations terminated the South Africa mandate to administer Namibia, the Territory took its first step towards independence. Aspiration 3 of Agenda 2063 calls for an Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law. In January 2017, Namibia acceded to the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), making it the thirty-sixth African Union member State to do so. Photo: United Nations Image: Description: Chairperson of the African Peer Review Panel of Eminent Persons, Mustapha Mekideche (centre), addresses a press conference on “Agenda 2063: Africa’s Fifty Year Transformation Plan. The briefing journalists with him were (from the left): the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on Africa, Maged Abdelaziz; Chief Executive Officer of the NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) Planning and Coordinating Agency and Interim Chief Executive Officer of the African Peer Review Mechanism secretariat, Ibrahim Assane Mayaki; Director, of the Directorate of Information and Communication, African Un Image: Description: National African Peer Review Mechanism APRM Workshop on “Harmonizing the Mauritius National Plan of Action (NPoA) with the existing development strategies and Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF)”, held in Mauritius, 23 and 24 April 2012. Photo © ECA Image: Description: A Workshop on enhancing the role and effective participation of parliamentarians in the African Peer Review Mechanism process.” Photo © ECA Image: Description: The Former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, the former President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta at a meeting of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) in Durban, South Africa, 14 April 2012. Photo © AU. Image: Description: Annual Programme Performance Review with ECA partners in 2018. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: The Strategic Planning and Operational Quality Division has contributed a range of innovative planning instruments coupled with an active engagement drive throughout the Commission to engender ECA accountability and learning capability. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Following the introduction of the new United Nations Secretariat wide planning and budgeting process and templates, the HQ Programme Planning and Budgeting Department in collaboration with the Strategic Planning and Operational Quality Division, organized a one-week training to familiarize the ECA senior management and professional staff with the new programme plan and performance information for 2020. The Workshop session was organized by Programme Planning and Budgeting Unit for ECA staff. Photo © ECA Image: Description: Image: Description: ECA commissioned its first data centre in April 2005. Since then, it has undergone comprehensive upgrades in August 2012 and June 2017 to become a state-of-art data centre. The centre fosters information and communications technology services with an information security framework that encompasses technical, physical and human dimensions to protect ECA information asset and reputation. The upgrade project entailed a modular data centre with hot aisle containment, which is one of the most popular tools for saving energy in the data centre. Photo © Shutterstock Image: Description: “Book Talk” knowledge sharing monthly event on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI): Left to right – Dr. Mahama Ouedraogo, Director, Science and Technology-AUC; Almoustapha Cisse, Acting Director, Public Information and Knowledge Management Division; Kasirim Nwuke, Chief, New Technologies and Innovation Section; Joseph Atta- Mensah, Principal Policy Adviser Photo © UNECA Image: Description: International Translation Day, organized by the Publications Section under the theme “Translation? Breaking down Language Barriers”. Addis Ababa, 30 September 2018. Photo © ECA Image: Description: “Book Talk” knowledge sharing event: A book talk in session at the United Nations Conference Centre. Photo © ECA Image: Description: ECA Library in its early years. The Library has morphed from basic library services into a modern knowledge centre in the twenty-first century, ensuring that its users have reliable access to high-quality information resources and knowledge services. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The ECA Knowledge Centre – 3D Design: Limpopo, the five-storied Library building, is under review to create open and flexible spaces, in response to the library trends in the twenty-first century in which spaces are both physical and virtual, providing technology, tools, services and expertise that encourage new patterns of user interactions and knowledge services. Photo © ECA. Image: Description: Executive Secretary of ECA, Adebayo Adedeji, and Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, Ide Omaru, with other guests at the inauguration of the ECA Library in 1970. Photo © ECA Image: Description: ECA Knowledge Hub (https://knowledge.uneca.org/) Image: Description: ACCESS TO ECA KNOWLEDGE: Chief of Knowledge and Library Services Section Irene Onyancha receiving guests from Hawassa University. Photo © UNECA Image: Description: Executive Secretary of ECA, Adebayo Adedeji, visiting the ECA Printing Shop in the early 1980s. Image: Description: Chief of the Print Shop, Charles Ndungu, explaining the new technology of printing to the Deputy Executive Secretary, Abdalla Hamdok in 2014. Photo © ECA Image: Description: The ECA Print Shop invested in an HP Indigo Digital Press to operationalize the concept of Print-on-Demand in 2015, which has progressively become the dominant technology in the modern publishing industry. Photo © ECA Image: Description: View of ECA Niger building. Photo © ECA Image: