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UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION
FOR AFRICA (UNECA)
Nations Unies Commission Économique pour l'Afrique
(CEA)
HEADQUARTERS
Africa Hall Postal Add: P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa Telephone: [251](1)51-7200
Ethiopia Facsimile: [251](1)51-4416
(New York) [1](212)963-4957
E-Mail: ecainfo@uneca.org
Internet: www.uneca.org
Under-Secretary-General of UN &
Executive Secretary of UNECA: ... K.Y. AMOAKO
Secretariat Officers
Deputy Executive Secretary: ... Ms. Lalla Ben BARKA
Secretary to the Commission and
Chief of Staff: ... Ms. Jo BUTLER
Special Assistant to the
Executive Secretary: ... Ali TODARO
Director, African Centre for Gender
and Development: ... Ms. Joséphine OUEDRAOGO
Director, Office of Policy Planning,
and Resource Management: ... Samba JACK
Director, Sustainable Development
Division: ... Josué DIONE
Director, Development
Management Division: ... James NXUMALO
Director, Development
Information Services Division: ... Ms. Karima Bounemra Ben SOLTANE
Director, Conference and General
Services Division: ... Patrick CHIUMYA
Director, Regional Cooperation
and Integration Division: ... Yousif SULIMAN
Director, Economic and Social
Policy Division: ... Patrick ASEA
LANGUAGES: Arabic, English, French
SUB-REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT CENTRES (SRDCS)
North Africa SRDC
P.O. Box 316 Telephone: [212](9)32-2345-7
Tangiers Facsimile: [212](9)34-0357
Morocco E-mail: srdc-na@uneca.org
Director: ... Abdelouahab REZIG
West Africa SRDC
P.O. Box 744 Telephone: [227]72-2961
Niamey [227]72-2788
Niger [227]72-3825
Facsimile: [227]72-2894
E-mail: srdcwest@eca.ne
Director: ... Jeggan SENGHOR
Central Africa SRDC
P.O. Box 836 Telephone: [237]23-1461
Yaoundé [237]23-5622
Cameroon Facsimile: [237]23-4076
E-mail: srdc@camnet.cm
casrdc@un.cm
Director: ... Hakim BEN HAMMOUDA
East Africa SRDC
P.O. Box 5654 Telephone: [250]8-6547
Kigali [250]8-6549
Rwanda [250]8-0151
Facsimile: [250]8-6546
E-mail: easrdc@rwandatel1.rwanda1.com
Director: ... Mbaye DIOUF
Southern Africa SRDC
P.O. Box 30647 Telephone: [260](1)22-8503/23-1062
Lusaka Facsimile: [260](1)23-6949
Zambia E-mail: uneca@zamnet.zm
Director: ... Robert OKELLO
ESTABLISHMENT AND FUNCTIONS
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
(UNECA) was established in 1958 when its Terms of
Reference were adopted by Resolution 671A(XXV) of the
Economic and Social Council of the United Nations on
April 29, 1958. The main organ of UNECA is the Conference
of Ministers responsible for Economic and Social
Development and Planning supported by the Technical
Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW). The
Conference of Ministers meets annually. The objectives of
UNECA are: (a) to promote and facilitate concerted action
for the economic and social development of Africa,
including its social aspects; (b) to maintain and
strengthen the economic relations of countries and
territories of Africa, both among themselves and with
other countries of the world; (c) to make or sponsor the
collection, evaluation and dissemination of such
economic, technological and statistical information as
the Commission deems appropriate; and (d) to assist in
the formulation and development of coordinated policies
as a basis for practical action in promoting economic and
technological development in the region.
COMPOSITION
53 member countries: Algeria, Angola,
Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape
Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo,
Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya,
Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé
and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo,
Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
STRUCTURE
The Conference of African Ministers responsible for
Economic and Social Development and Planning and its
Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW)
meet on a biennial basis. The Conference provides
legislative mandate and policy guidance for the work of
the Commission; considers and endorses the work programs
of the Commission; serves as a forum for articulating
Africa’s position on development issues on the
agenda of the United Nations; and decides upon the
recommendations of its subsidiary bodies and of the
Executive Secretary.
The organs dealing with overall development issues
are the five Intergovernmental Committees of Experts of
the Sub-Regional Development Centres (SRDCs), which meet
annually and report to the Commission through the TEPCOW.
These Committees oversee the overall formulation and
implementation of the program of work and priorities of
the respective SRDCs and make recommendations (a) on
important issues concerning economic and social
development in their respective sub-regions as well as
(b) on the promotion and strengthening of sub-regional
economic cooperation and integration.
The Conference of African Ministers of Finance and
the Conference of African Ministers responsible for
Economic and Social Development and Planning convene
biennially in alternate years.
Subsidiary bodies: Committee on
Women and Development; Committee on Development
Information; Committee on Sustainable Development;
Committee on Human Development and Civil Society;
Committee on Industry and Private Sector Development;
Committee on Natural Resources and Science and
Technology; Committee on Regional Cooperation and
Integration.
GENERAL PUBLICATIONS
Annual Report of the Economic Commission for Africa; Annual Report on Integration in Afica (AIRA); Africa Index; African Women Report; Africa's Population and Development Bulletin; Economic Report on Africa (ERA); Impact of trade reforms in Africa in promoting some key indicators; Population, Agriculture and Environment Interrelationship in Africa: some key indicators; Reforms of higher education with respect to the utilization of information technology; State of African Governance Report; State of the Environment; Trends in database development, management and dissemination for decision support in Africa.
UPDATED: May 13, 2002
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