The African Centre for Women (ACW) is a division within the Economic Commission for Africa. Established in 1975, ACW is the regional Women in Development (WID) structure in the United Nations system in Africa. The Centre services national, regional and subregional structures involved in the advancement of women. Within ECA's strategy, there is a new and greater emphasis on gender issues as cross-cutting concerns in the priority areas of focus which are:

• Economic and Social Policy Analysis;
• Development Management;
• Food Security and Sustainable Development;
• Information for Development;
• Regional Cooperation and Integration

• Equal access to resources
• Equal access to opportunities
• Equal participation in decision-making

ACW is the secretariat for the Committee on Women in Development (CWD), formerly known as Africa  Regional Coordinating Committee (ARCC) for the integration of women in development, which is a subsidiary organ of ECA.
 
Related Links

• The UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
• United Nations Development Fund for Women: http://www.unifem.undp.org
• The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
• UNDP Links on Poverty, Environment, Gender and Governance: http://www.undp.org/toppages/focus%20areas/focus.htm
• The Worldbank Group: African Region on Gender : http://www.worldbank.org/aftdr/bp/GENDER/gendtest.htm
• ISIS International: Breathing Feminism into Cyberspace: http://www.sequel.net/~isis/
• World Food Programme, Women and Gender: http://www.wfp.org/info-themes-women-home.html
• UN Economic and Social Development: General Information on Women: http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women
• WomensNet supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work: http://www.igc.org/igc/womensnet/