EVENTS
LIST OF CONFERENCES, MEETINGS, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Policy Analysis (ESPD)

Pro-Poor Growth Strategies in Africa
Expert Group Meeting
Munyonyo Speke Resort, Kampala, Uganda
23-24 June 2003
(10.16.2003)

Link to Year 2003 ECA Calendar of Events
[PDF version, MS Word Version]

Archive

Year 2001
(Provisional list)

March

  • Ad-hoc expert group meeting on Africa’s export competitiveness (in collaboration with AERC)
    Dates to be determined, Geneva, Switzerland (Update)  

May

  • "Expert meeting of the Joint Conference of African Ministers" Of Finance and Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development ¨ Planning (with OPRM) (Conference Website)
    2-7 May, Algiers, Algeria
  • Joint conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development Planning (Conference Website)
    8-10 May, Algiers, Algeria

June

July

  • Seminar on Benchmarks for Health Expenditures, Services and Health Outcomes in a Sample of African Countries from 1995-2000
    11 July, ESPD Meeting Room, New ECA Building, 3rd Floor

September

  • Training for senior trade negotiators on WTO issues
    Dates to be determined UNCC, Addis Ababa

October

  • Ad-hoc expert group meeting on the Status of Africa’s Debt
    11-12 October, UNCC, Addis Ababa
  • Ad-hoc expert group meeting on Competitiveness of Africa’s Major Exports
    (Date and Venue to be determined)

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November

  • Ad-hoc expert group meeting on Reforms in Higher Education (with respect of the utilization of Information Technology
    6-7 November, UNCC, Addis Ababa
  • Ad-hoc expert group meeting Best Practices in Public Expenditure Allocation for Poverty Reduction
    (Date and Venue to be determined)

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Year 2000
(Provisional list)

  • Regional conference on brain drain and capacity building in Africa (in collaboration with IDRC and IOM)
    22-24 Feb., UNCC, Addis Ababa

  • Ad hoc expert group meeting on Development Strategy for Africa (Dates contingent on agreement with UNCTAD and the host country)
    22-24 March, UNCC, Addis Ababa

  • Meeting on the development implications of civil conflicts in Africa
    7-8 Apr., UNCC,Addis Ababa

  • Youth forum (supported by Youth Unit in New York)
    10-14 Apr., UNCC, Addis Ababa

  • Seminar on the role and promotion of investment agencies in Africa
    5 - 6 Sept., UNCC, Addis Ababa

  • Ad hoc experts group meeting on status of Africa’s debt
    18 - 19 Sept., UNCC, Addis Ababa
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Year 1999

  • Regional Conference on brain-drain and Capacity Building in Africa
    20-23 August, Accra, Ghana (DMD/ESPD)

  • First meeting on the Committee on Human Development and civil Society (in conjunction with the Millennium Assembly)
    21-25 June, UNCC Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (DMD/ESPD)

  • Joint Meeting of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW) and the Intergovernmental Group of Experts of the Seventh Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance
    30 April – 4 May UNCC Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • West African Sub-regional Follow-up Conference to the World Summit for Social Development
    9-11 March, Ouagadougou Burkina Faso

Year 1998

  • Ad-hoc Experts Group Meeting on Africa in the Post Uruguay Round: Raising Africa's International Competitiveness in Changing Global Economy of the Twenty-First Century.
    December,

  • ECA/EDI Regional Workshop on Poverty and Public Policy (North African subregion).
    September,

  • Seventh Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance.
    July, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

  • ECA/EDI Regional Workshop on Poverty and Public Policy (Eastern African subregion).
    June, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

  • Regional Conference on Brain Drain and Capacity Building in Africa.
    24 - 26 May, Accra (Ghana)

  • ECA/EDI Regional Workshop on Poverty and Public Policy (Western African subregion).
    April, Dakar (Senegal)

  • Ad-hoc Expert Group Meeting on Appropriate Follow-up Mechanisms to the First WTO Ministerial Conference and Modalities to Facilitate Participation in the Second WTO Ministerial Conference.
    9 - 11 March, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

  • EDI/ECA Regional Workshop on Poverty and Public Policy (Southern African subregion).
    9 - 12 February, South Africa

  • Consultative Meeting on the Methodology and Instruments for the Survey of African Consulting Agencies.
    14 - 15 January, Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire)

Pre 1998

  • Read: [French] Report of the Sixth Session of the Conference of African Ministers: the Sixth Session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance held under the theme "Financial Sector Reforms and Debt Management", took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 31 March to 2 April 1997.
  • Panel Discussion on Public Expenditure and The Poor in Africa, May 1996. Read
  • Read:  25 April 1996 BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY 1994-1995. The present report highlights the activities of the Economic Commission for Africa during the period 1994-1995, the second biennium of the 1992-1997 Medium-term Plan.
  • Read: OVERVIEW OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA. An overview of Africa's development in the first half of the 1990s
  • Read: Paris Declaration for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s Global Mid-Term Review of the Implementation of the Paris Declaration and Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s
  • Read: Resolutions Adopted By The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) During its Twenty-fifth Session 29 April 1958