Provisional Programme of Work

The Joint Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Economic Development and Planning
ECA's Thirty-third session of the Commission/Twenty-fourth meeting of the Conference of Ministers/Seventh Conference of African Ministers of Finance
6 - 8 May 1999 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Thursday, 6 May 1999

9:30 – 10:30 Official Opening Ceremony

  • Statement by His Excellency Ato Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
  • Statement by Mr. K.Y. Amoako, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
  • Statement by Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim, Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11.00-11:30 Election of the Bureau

  • Adoption of the Agenda and Programme of Work

11:30-12:30 Plenary Session I: Keynote Addresses on "The Challenges of Financing Development in Africa"

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 - 16:00 Plenary Session II: Panel Presentations and Discussion on "Policy Reforms and Aid Effectiveness"

16:00 -16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Plenary Session II (cont.)

Friday, 7 May 1999

8:30-11.00 Plenary Session III: Panel Presentations and Discussion on a "Review of the African Debt Situation and Domestic Resource Mobilization in Africa"

11:00-12.30 Plenary Session IV: Report on the Current Economic and Social Situation in Africa

12:30–14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 Plenary Session V: Ministerial Policy Debate on the economic and social situation and the challenges of financing Development in Africa

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Plenary Session VI: Consideration of the Report and Recommendations of the nineteenth Meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW) and Intergovernmental Group of Experts of the seventh session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance

Saturday, 8 May 1999

9:30-11:30 Consideration of the Draft Ministerial Statement on "The Challenges of Financing Development in Africa"

11:30-16:00 Lunch break

16:00- 18:00 Plenary Session VII: Adoption of the Report of the Conference and Closure of the Conference