Experts
begin a two-day consultation on ECA’s strategic directions for 2006-2007
By Yinka Adeyemi
About 25 experts from Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) and the six regional committees set up by African Ministers of Finance will today begin a two-day consultation on ECA's work programme and strategic directions for 2006-2007.
They will hold informal consultations with ECA's substantive Divisions and its five sub-regional offices to get more familiar with their programmes and have a clearer picture of their relevance to African problems.
Some of the experts were drawn from 14 African countries and represent the Committee on Development Information (CODI), the Committee on Sustainable Development (CSD), Committee on Women and Development (CWD), Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration (CRCI), the Committee on Human Development and Civil Society and the Committee of Experts of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
The ICE was represented by experts from the Ministry of Cooperation and Integration in Africa, Nigeria; the Ministry of Planning and National Development, Kenya; the Ministry of Planning and Economic Integration, DRC; the Ministry of Gender Youth and Sport and Recreation, Lesotho and the Ministry of Planning in Morocco.
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