African Women and Economic
Development: Investing In Our Future
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
28 April - 1 May 1998
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: Themes and Topics
This is the summary of the exchanges, experiences, analysis and suggestions provided during the AFR-FEM Internet Working Group's first week of activity. This Group was organised by the World Bank and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, as an associated activity to the Conference "African Women and Economic Development: investing in our future", to be organised by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, in Addis Ababa, 28 April - 1st May, 1998. The moderation of the conference is being done in collaboration with the Association of Progressive Communications – APC - Women's Africa Program. The mandate of the Internet Working Group is to support the Conference, by gathering a basis of field information pertaining to the Conference themes. The Internet Working Group activity reports are also posted to the GKD main list Global Knowledge for Development and are also available on the ECA 40th website.
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- AFR-FEM Working Group: Summary Nine (5/17 - 5/23)
AFR-FEM Working Group: Summary Three (4/05 - 4/11): Women and Economic Development
AFR-FEM Working Group: Summary Two (3/29 - 4/4): Women's participation in economic development
For questions and/or suggestions on the following Working Sessions, please send an e-mail to dialogue@un.org or eca40th@un.org
The Working Group will be moderated and animated to maintain focus on the specific objectives of the conference:
1. Developing African economies: the roles of women |
2. Achieving good governance: the essential participation of women |
| Globalisation and regional integration: challenges and opportunities for African women | Operationalisation of a new vision for governance: the implication of Beijing and Dakar at the National level for a gender responsive State |
| Better evaluation of women’s contribution to economic activity: Including a gender perspective in national accounts and other data | Creating mechanisms for the systematic participation of women in all peace processes at the national, regional and subregional: Case studies in best practices. |
| Reflecting the Beijing Platform for Action priorities in budgetary allocations | Post-conflict reconstruction, rehabilitation and reconciliation: case studies in best practices. |
| Modernisation and economic growth: strategies to improve the quality of life of the population | Strategies and actions to promote the implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against women (CEDAW) |
| Sharing best practices on gender-sensitive credit schemes. | 50 years of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights: gains made in women’s Human Rights |
| Mechanisms for promoting women’s access to and ownership of land. | Promoting affirmative action to ensure women’s access to decision making positions in the political arena |
| Facilitating women’s access to markets, regional trade and scaling up women’s enterprise Mobilising resources for community-based health and education schemes | |
| Mobilising resources to establish women-focused community-based social security/insurance schemes. |
3. African women and the information age |
4. Creating opportunities for Africa’s new generation |
| Information and Communication Technology (ICT) policy: how to make these policies work for women | Reorienting formal and non-formal education programmes and curricula to support/promote and agenda for gender equality. |
| Widening Women’s Access to Information and Communication Technologies | Innovative mechanisms to create an enabling environment for the girl child education and employment |
| Establishment of women’s information centre’s: case studies in best practices | Sensitising and mobilising media and modern communication technologies to change attitudes and perceptions , through the projection to the public of gender sensitive images and messages |
| ICTs as tools of democratisation | Addressing reproductive health risks and its economic consequences on youth |
| Impact of information and communication technologies on women’s work | Introducing youth to information technologies |
Secretariat of the Conference for
information and correspondence:
Economic Commission for Africa
African Centre for Women (ACW)
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tel: (251.1) 51 89 19 (Direct)/51 72 00 Ext. 33700
Fax: (251-1)
512233 (Direct)/512785
E-mail: eca40th@un.org
Internet: http://www.un.org/depts/eca/eca40th