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	GenderNet, Issue 5, 2007 This edition of Gender Net examines this particular issue and tries to take stock of the present situation, with reference to women's access to land, natural resources and capital. The newsletter sets the tone by analyzing women’s economic rights as stated in various international instruments. It also examines the effectiveness of enforcement of laws affecting their right to land by giving some country examples. The bulletin also focuses on some of the challenges to women’s access to land due to the transition from traditional communal ownership of land and natural resources to the individual ownership-based land tenure.
	Experts to discuss the needs of older people in Africa Addis Ababa, 15 November 2007- About 20 experts from nine African countries will on Monday in Addis Ababa begin a two-day review of a report on the needs of older people in Africa produced by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and titled “Aging in a society for all ages in Africa”.
	A Joint ECA - UNIFEM Workshop To Better Use The African Gender and Development Index Addis Ababa, 5 October 2007 (ECA) - ECA is co-organizing and hosting a training workshop on the African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) that was developed by its African Center for Gender and Social Development. The workshop due to be held from 8 to 12 October 2007 2007 will gather over 25 participants from UNIFEM Africa section and Regional Offices in Africa, in addition to ECA staff members.
	ECA Embarks on a Project to Engender The Millennium Development Goals Addis Ababa, 04 October 2007 (ECA) - The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in partnership with UN-Habitat and UNDP's Regional Gender Programme- Africa Bureau, has initiated an important project on “Assessing progress in implementing the Millennium Development Goals in relation to Gender Equality in Africa”.
	GenderNet, Issue 4, 2007
	ECA Innovations Showcased at ECOSOC 2007 10 July, 2007 ECA participated at the Annual Ministerial Review (AMR) session of the High-Level Panel meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2-6 July 2007. ECOSOC is the supervisory organ of the United Nations to which ECA reports. More...
	Rampant gender-based discrimination slows entrepreneurship among African women, says new study Addis Ababa, 18 June 2007 - African women's success in entrepreneurship can only be accelerated through policy and programme which address rampant gender-based discrimination in the formal sector, according to a new study by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
	Brainstorming Meeting to Design Sectoral Gender Development Indexes on Agriculture and Trade Friday 27 April 2007 Within the framework of creating synergies between ECA's various divisions and programmes, the African Center for Gender and Social Development (ACGS) is collaborating with the African Center for Statistics (ACS) to implement a development account project on 'Strengthening African Statistical Systems to Generate Gender Disaggregated Data" and elaborate sectoral indexes in two specific areas: trade and agriculture. :: Programme of work
	Meeting of Committee on Women and Development Bureau (CWD) and the Advisory Panel of the Africa Women's Rights Observatory(AWRO) Addis Ababa, 18 April 2007 - The Bureau of the Committee on Women and Development (CWD) comprising ministers for gender and women's affairs from six countries is scheduled to hold its meeting on the 19 of April 2007 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the United Nations Conference Center (UNCC).
	Sudanese Economist says at current pace, Africa may not achieve the MDGs, even in 100 years Addis Ababa, 3 April 2007: A Sudanese economist participating in the ECA's Conference of Ministers, Dr. Wani Tombe Lako , said in Addis Ababa on Friday that at the current pace, it was unrealistic for African countries to imagine that they could achieve the MDGs, "even in 100 years".
	Experts meeting opens with call for the scaling-up of resources to meet MDGs ECA Press Release No. 03/2007 Addis Ababa, 29 March 2007 (ECA): Ethiopia's minister of state for finance and economic development, H.E. Mekonnen Manyazewal, has called for an increase in pro-poor investment strategies in order to enable Africa to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
	Secure land rights for marginalized groups will accelerate MDGs achievement, says report Addis Ababa, 28 March 2007 ---A forthcoming report by the Food Security and Sustainable Development (FSSD) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) says secure land rights in Africa would accelerate the achievement of all eight MDGs.
	Find the money for Africa to meet its MDG targets, says Africa Director of Millennium Campaign Addis Ababa, 26 March, 2007: The Director of the UN Millennium Campaign in Africa, Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, in Addis Ababa on Friday called on African governments to “find the money” for their respective countries to meet their MDG targets.
	African Ministers to Consult on Strategies for Meeting the MDGs Addis Ababa, 21 March 2007 (ECA): African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development are to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from April 2-3 to discuss how to accelerate growth on the continent to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
	ECA Partakes in the Formation of an African-Spanish Women's Network November 06, 2006 Anxious to push the gender agenda and promote the advancement of women in Africa, ECA/ACGS have endeavoured to forge partnerships with international development actors and join efforts to spearhead various initiatives aiming to address gender issues, namely promoting women's entrepreneurship. In this context, ACGS participated last week in a Consultative Forum on the formation of an African- Spanish Network of Women (Madrid 18-19 October 2006).
	Opening Remarks by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary at the joint ECA/AERC "Conference on Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets" 11 October 2006, United Nations Conference Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia :: Conference Programme
	:: Growing Asian influence in Africa under discussion Addis Ababa, 9 October 2006 – ECA, together with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), is holding a two-day meeting to discuss the growing importance of Asian countries for sub-Saharan Africa. :: Opening Remarks by Mr. Abdoulie Janneh :: Meeting Programme :: Overview Report
Meetings to discuss Asian influence in Africa and the challenge of poverty Addis Ababa, 6 October 2006- ECA, together with the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), is to hold two meetings next week to highlight the growing influence of India and China on sub-Saharan Africa, and to address the continuing challenge of poverty on the continent.
Bolstering Partnership with the Commonwealth Secretariat in Gender- related Issues September 28, 2006 In a recent visit to the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Dr. Auxilia Ponga, Adviser at the Gender Section of the Commonwealth Secretariat (CS) had a meeting with the ACGS's Gender and Women in Development Section, to discuss potential avenues of collaboration with ECA and particularly with the ACGS.
Tunis Hosts ECA's First Sub-regional Workshop on Beijing+10 Follow-up Strategy July 21, 2006 Over 40 senior government officers from key ministries will attend in Tunis, Tunisia, the first Sub-regional workshop on implementing the follow up strategy of the Outcome and Way Forward after the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing + 10).
"Building research capacity for developing countries to reduce poverty through better macroeconomic policies and micro-level interventions" On June 18-22, 2006, the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) Research Network will be holding its 5th General Meeting at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
International Women's Day 2006: ECA Symposium on Women in Decision- Making By Houda Mejri , 14 March 2006 Over 200 participants drawn from the international community, the diplomatic corps, the UN system, national and international NGOs, the academia, the media, as well as ECA staff attended ECA's Symposium on Women's Participation in Decision- Making organized in celebration of the International Women's Day at UNCC on 9 march 2006. The selected topic for reflection this year was "women in decision-making" and coincided with the theme of the meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2006.
An ECA Symposium To Celebrate The International Women’s Day By Houda Mejri, 07 March 2006 In a book published recently and titled “ the World of Women”, the French sociologist Alain Touraine writes “The progress and development of a given society can only be measured against the status of its own women and their participation in decision-making”.
Forum on the Outcome of the African Decade Review of Beijing + 10 23 February 2005 Tracking Gender Mainstreaming in Africa
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October 2004

Seventh African Regional Conference on Women
Decade Review of the implementation of the
Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action, 6-14 October 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Beijing+10 and ADF Meetings Close, "Big Table" Opens, ECA Media Advisory 16 October 2004

NGO Forum at the Regional Conference on Beijing+10, October 6-7, 2004
Opening speech by Mme Joséphine Ouedraogo
Work Programme [PDF File ]

African Women's NGOs Take Stock Ten Years After Beijing Conference
ECA Press Release 21/04, Addis Ababa, 04 October 2004.
More than three hundred representatives of non- governmental organizations gather in Addis Ababa this week to take stock of progress in African women's lives since the Beijing summit on women's affairs ten years ago.

NEPAD Appoints an Advisor on Gender and Civil Society Organizations

UNRISD Announces the preparation of a flagship report onGender and development: 10 years after Beijing

THE AFRICAN GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT INDEX (AGDI)

September 2004

AD HOC EXPERT GROUP MEETING ON A GENDER-AWARE
MACROECONOMIC MODEL TO EVALUATE IMPACTS OF POLICIES ON POVERTY REDUCTION, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14 - 15 September 2004

An Expert Group Meeting Convenes to Review ECA’s Gender-aware Macroeconomic Model
Opening Statement by Josephine Ouedraogo, Director of the African Centre for Gender and Development, Economic Commission for Africa
Draft Programe of work

August 2004

Launch of a special ACGD website on the Seventh African Regional Conference on Women (Beijing + 10)

July 2004

ECA Becomes Member of The International Working Group on Gender Through its African Center for Gender and Development
31 July, 2004

The African Women NGOs Consultative Meeting on Beijing+ 10,
22-23 July 2004, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Meeting's Report
Group Report

Involving African Women NGOs
Agenda
Work Programme

Report of ECA's workshop on the operationalization of Enterprise Development Facilities for Women Entrepreneurs (EDFs), 14 July, 2004

ACGD Launches Phase II of the Operationalization of ECAs Enterprise Development Facilities for Women Entrepreneurs, 13 July, 2004

:: Power Point Presentation
Aida Opoku-Mensah
Team Leader, Promoting ICT4D, DISD
:: Report of ECA's workshop on the operationalization of Enterprise Development Facilities for Women Entrepreneurs (EDFs)

Beijing +10 Evaluation Process
Report of sub regional meetings on Beijing +10

Report of Sub-regional Decade Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Eastern Africa
Kigali, Rwanda 2-4 June 2004

Report of the Sub-regional Decade Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action in Southern Africa
Lusaka, Zambia 26 – 29 April 2004

SUB-REGIONAL MEETING ON THE DECADE REVIEW OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIJING PLATFORM OF ACTION
WEST AFRICA
13 – 15 April 2004
Abuja, Nigeria
SYNTHESIS REPORT

May 2004

ACGD at the Joint ADB/ECA symposium
K.Y. Amoako, Secrétaire exécutif
Statement by Mr. K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA , at the Joint ADB/ECA symposium: Kampala, Uganda 24 May 2004.
The Missing Link in Growth and Sustainable Development: Closing the Gender Gap: An Issues Paper
Media coverage: UN alarmed by growing African poverty, external debt - The New Vision, Uganda, 22 May 2004

North Africa Beijing +10 Evaluation

By Houda Mejri, ACGD Information Officer
13 May 2004
Within the framework of Africa’s contribution in the Global Decade Review of Beijing Platform for Action on Women (Beijing + 10), ECA launched a series of subregional meetings at experts level to review progress achieved in the 5 subregions, and seek consensus as to what the gender-related priority areas in the subregions are for the next 10 years.

April 2004
Africa’s Appointment with Beijing + 10

Consolidate Progress Achieved by Women
to Better Meet Development Challenges
Interview with Josephine Ouedraogo

21 April 2004
ECA Press Release No. 09/2004

13 April 2004
ECA Press Release No. 08/2004
Beijing + 10: with specific reference to North Africa.
ECA Press Release No. 07/2004

20 March 2004

Meeting of the African Women Committee on Peace and Development (AWCPD)
Statement by K.Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20 March 2004

January 2004

Gender Net 2003

10th December 2003

WOUGNET Presented With World Summit Award
WSIS 2003, Geneva

16-17 September 2003

Meeting of the Bureau of the Committee on Women and Development (CWD)

Aide-Mémoire
Draft Programme of Work
Draft Provisional Agenda
Information Note

Wednesday 21 May 2003
Twenty Years of…AIDS!
Growing Feminization of the Scourge

Tuesday 22 April 2003

New full text documents in the publication section

A Conceptual and Analytical Framework for Gender Mainstreaming in National Accounts and National Budget - Words need numbers to influence them, M.Alfred A.R.Latigo, Policy Analysis and Advocacy Programme, African Centre for Gender & Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, December 2002 [ PDF format only ]

New document from the African Women Committee for Peace and Development (AWCPD)

AWCPD Presentation, Conference on "Regional Consultation on Enhancing Women's Participation in Peace Building", 23-25 April 2001, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia

Monday 21 April 2003

New full text documents in the publication section

L'expérience et la vision du CAGED sur le développement des sociétés africaines, Mme Souad Abdennebi/Abderrahim, Conseillère régionale pour la promotion des droits des femmes, Colloque international sur " Genre, éducation, développement et progrès des sociétés africaines " organisé par le CIEFFA à Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso 6-7-8 mars 2003 [ French version only - Other formats in French ]

A Background Paper on Engendering Budgetary Policy and Processes - No Gender Equity No Poverty Reduction, Background Paper Series, M.Alfred A.R.Latigo, Centre Africain pour le Genre et le Développement, Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique, Décembre 2001 [ PDF format only ]

Compendium of Best Practices on Gender Mainstreaming - Engendering National Budgets: The Case of Tanzania, Centre Africain pour le Genre et le Développement, Commission économique des Nations Unies pour l'Afrique, Décembre 2001 [ PDF format only ] [ECA/ACGD/ENB.TAN/2002]

[French version only - Available formats : ]

Saturday 8 march 2003

International Women's Day

History Bears Witness

Appalling Facts and Figures On Violence Against Women

Special Women's Day Edition of ECA Now, the Weekly Newsletter of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vol. 1, No. 8, 10 march 2003 [ PDF format only]

2002

First Batch of African Women Graduate from ECA Cisco Networking Academy, Press Release # 02/2002, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31 janvier 2002

2000

ECA launches new CD-ROM on Status of Africa's Women, Press Release # 06/2000, United Nations Headquaters, New York, U.S.A., 3 June 2000

1999

Plans unveiled to speed implementation of Dakar/ Beijing platforms, Press Release # 93/1999, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26 November 1999
Dakar And Beijing Opened Up Possibilities But The Road Ahead Is Long, Press Release # 92/1999, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22 November 1999
Leading Gender Experts to Review Africa's Progress Since Beijing, Press Release # 91/1999, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 15 November 1999

1998

ECA to Stage Major International Conference on Gender, Press Release # 38/1998, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), International Conference on African Women and Economic Development: "Investing in our Future", 28 April - 1 May 1998, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 20 January 1998

1997

Leadership Training: Consultative Symposium on Strengthening Capacity for Gender Initiatives and Sub-regional Cooperation, Press Release # 37/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Symposium on Capacity for Gender Initiatives and Sub-regional Co-operation, Arusha, Tanzania, November 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 24 November 1997

West Africa Sub-regional Review of Government Implementation of the Dakar and Beijing Platforms for Action, Press Release # 36/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Symposium on Capacity for Gender Initiatives and Sub-regional Co-operation, Dakar, Senegal, 25-27 November 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 24 November 1997

Gender and Law Conference produces National Action Plans, Press Release # 32/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Gender and Law: Eastern Africa Speaks, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 October 1997

East African Experts to Meet on Legal Impediments to Women's Advancement, Press Release # 29/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Conference of East African Experts on Legal Impediments to Women's Advancement, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-25 October 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 16 October 1997

Experts to Meet on Adolescent Girls and their Rights, Press Release # 27/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Experts Group Meeting on Adolescent Girls, 13-17 October 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 October 1997

ECA Fleshes out Issues, Strategies and Actors to Develop Gender Networking Systems, Press Release # 22/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Meeting on Women & Economic Empowerment & Decision-making through the Promotion of Women's Human & Legal Rights. 16-18 June 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, July 1997

Expert Group Meeting on Gender Networking Zeroes in on Economic Empowerment, Legal and Human Rights, Press Release # 20/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Expert Group Meeting on Gender Networking Africa, 16-18 June 1997, Addis Ababa, 16 June 1997 [

Expert Group Meeting on Gender Networking: ECA Delivers on its Undertaking To Put Gender at the Top of the Priority List, Press Release # 18/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Meeting on Women & Economic Empowerment & Decision-making through the Promotion of Women's Human & Legal Rights, 16-18 June 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 14 June 1997

ECA Gender Policy Under The Spotlight This Week, Press Release # 09/1997, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), 18th Meeting of the Africa Regional Coordinating Committee for the Integration of Women in Development (ARCC), 24-28 April 1997, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22 April 1997

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