Publication list
The study identified three types of causalities between health and education in Nigeria. The first is the no evidence causality between primary school enrolment, secondary school enrolment, literacy...
An inclusive and sustainable pathway towards gender equality in Africa
On 30 May 2019, the Agreement Establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA Agreement) came into force. The AfCFTA Agreement does not incorporate a separate chapter on...
Fiscal Policy for Financing Sustainable Development in Africa
Africa is at a critical juncture in its development trajectory. Policies adopted now will determine how quickly the continent accelerates growth and creates prosperity for all. In 2015, African...
January 2019
Healthy population is essential to achieving an empowered, inclusive and transformed Ethiopia, leaving no one behind. This powerful linkage between women’s health and development is valid worldwide....
Using a nexus approach to improve climate resilience and benefit society, the economy and the environment
“Nexus thinking” is an approach that recognizes the critical interdependence of food, energy and water in an increasingly resource constrained world. Understanding and improving how these resources...
Making every dollar count how investing in climate information pays dividends for the key socioeconomic sectors of Africa
A new framework – the first of its kind – developed by the African Climate Policy Centre can provide Governments of climate dependent countries with clear social and economic returns for investing in...
A workshop is successfully held in Nairobi from 30-31march 2016 with the primary objective of scoping and assessing of user-driven climate re-search priorities for Eastern and Horn of Africa to...
Science-informed and evidence-based policy, planning and practices are essential to ensuring African development is sustainable and more...
Science-informed and evidence-based policy, planning and practices are essential to ensuring African development is sustainable and more...
he Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the body widely recognized as the international authority on climate change — give clear evidence of increased warming...
The Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the body widely recognized as the international authority on climate change — give clear evidence of increased warming...
Under the aegis of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the African Trade Policy Centre works with member States to develop trade policies that support the continent’s sustainable development...
The present report discusses the ways in which Aid for Trade can be used to support efforts to lower barriers to trade for women and young people, and promote inclusive gains from trade following...
Implications for Inclusion and Human Rights
Executive summary and policy recommendationsIn July 2017, the African Trade Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Office of the United Nations...
Next Steps for the African Continental Free Trade Area
Signed by 52 African countries, the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is, by the number of participating countries, the largest trade agreement since the formation of the WTO. By 1 April...
Ensuring the full and effective participation of women and equal opportunities for female leadership at all levels of decision-making is one of the targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable...
This brief aims to answer whether the Ethiopian cutflower industry can be a positive example of sustainable agriculture. Using the theoretical framework of sustainability along agricultural commodity...
The economic partnership agreements between the European Union and the five African regional blocs have been under negotiation since 2000. While framed as development-friendly asymmetric agreements...
In July 2017, the African Trade Policy Centre of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the...
Macroeconomic convergence is one of the key instruments for successful regional integrating as well as economic growth. It plays an important role in providing efficiency, promoting public...