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Fiscal Policy fo 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...
This capacity needs assessment of the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD) was conducted under the framework partnership of the African Ministerial Conference on...
Climate variability and associated droughts and floods are major causes of poverty and resource depletion in Africa. They are serious threat to economic growth, and their impact is particularly...
The objectives of this assessment are: (i) To review and consolidate the variousassessments performed at ICPAC; (ii) identify ICPAC’s key products, services and the needs of their key users; prepare...
In the light of the enormous challenges climate variability and climate change pose to societies, there is an urgent need to enable African countries to provide the best possible climate services in...
This is a proposed template for a National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) Strategic Plan which serves as the required standard to preparing Strategic Plans in accordance with the...
This document is the Integrated Strategic Planning Guide prepared by Baastel for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and is meant to provide a step by step approach to conduct strategic...
Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources, strengthen operations, ensurethat employees and other stakeholders are working...
In November 2011, the law no 54/2011 of 11 November 2011 established Meteo Rwanda. The formulation of this strategic plan is to guide the activities of Meteo Rwanda in line with its mandate and the...
The purpose of the Plan is to have a coordinated modality of implementation of collectively agreed strategies to ensure that weather and climate services play an effective role in the socioHeconomic...
On average, Africa has reached the Millennium Development Goals horizon with remarkable performances in five of the eight Goals, even though not all five were fully achieved. The five...
ECA Policy Brief No. ECA/18/004
In Maputo in 2003, the Assembly of the African Union resolved to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme and committed themselves to allocating at least 10...
African Governments have considered broadband as a fundamental right that everyone should have access to and benefit from. The role of hardware and software are important in high-speed broadband...
African Heads of State and Government have committed to raising their national gross expenditure on research and development (GERD) to at least one per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP), in...
Finance is identified as a means of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Outcomes of Rio+20; and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It is also identified...
Skills, technology and the African transformation agenda: massive open online courses to the rescue?
In several issues of its flagship Economic Report on Africa, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has provided evidence to show that much of Africa’s recent growth has not been accompanied by...
Africa and India are increasingly becoming more prominent partners in each other’s trade with significant growth in the market shares of their respective imports and exports. The advent of...
The purpose of the present policy brief is to analyse Canada’s new Feminist International Assistance Policy in the context of trade and development cooperation with Africa and explore the areas in...
ECA Policy Brief No. ECA/17/003
The present Policy Brief outlines some of the key recommendations derived from the study on “Effective Regulatory Systems for Service Delivery and Structural Transformation in Africa:...