 Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)
Syllabus of the Subject: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
(ECA)
- Introduction to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA/ECA)
- Vision: “Putting Africa First” of the Economic Commission for Africa
- ECA Macroeconomics Policy
- Economic Report on Africa
- African Statistical Yearbook
- Regional Integration and Trade
- Industrialisation and infrastructure
- Investment policy
- Food security, agriculture, and land
- African Trade Policy Centre
- Trade Facilitation from an African perspective
- Observatory on the Regional Integration in Africa
- Assessing regional integration in Africa
- Action Plan for Boosting Intra-Africa Trade
- Building Trade Capacities for the African Transformation
- Frontier Markets in Africa
- Africa-BRICS Cooperation
- African Road Safety Action Plan 2011-2020
- Social Development and the Economic Commission for Africa
- Post 2015 Development Agenda
- Natural Resources
- Committee Food Security and Sustainable Development
- Innovation and Technology.
- Information and communication technologies (ICT) for Regional Trade in Africa
- Gender
- African Centre for Gender
- African Women's Report
- Governance and the Economic Commission for Africa
- Combating Corruption
- Improving the Governance in Africa
- Subregional Offices of the United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa
- Central Africa
- East Africa
- North Africa
- Southern Africa
- West Africa
- African Centre for Statistics
- African Institute for Economic Development and Planning
- Procurement Unit: Doing Business with the Economic Commission for Africa
The objectives of the Subject “Economic Commission for Africa of the United Nations (ECA)” are the following:
- To understand the aims (regional integration, African development), structure and functions of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
- To analyse the Committee of Macroeconomics Policy of the Economic Commission for Africa
- To know the Economic Report on Africa
- To analyse the role and the areas of cooperation of the Division of Trade and Regional Integration
- To examine the social development, natural resources, innovation and technology, gender and management programs of the Economic Commission of the United Nations for Africa (ECA)
- To analyse the role of the Commission in relation to the Regional Economic Communities (RECs)
- To understand the functioning of the Procurement Services Unit of the Economic Commission for Africa
Sample of the Subject - Economic Commission for Africa (ECA):

NOTES:
- This subject is an introductory course about UNECA (Objectives, Departments, and Publications), the subject “African Economic Integration”
is analysed in another module
- Along this study; we will introduce several UNECA reports related to the African regions (Central
Africa,
East Africa, North
Africa,
Southern Africa and
West Africa), the analysis of each
report will be made in the module of the region
Related topics:
- Economic Transformation of Africa
- African Continental Free-Trade Area
- African Value Chains
African Portal - EENI Global Business School

Description of the Subject: Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
In 1958 was created the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations
The objectives of the Economic Commission for Africa are to:
- Promote the economic and social development of the African Countries
- Improve the intra-regional integration
- Promote the International Cooperation for
the African development
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) identifies the importance of focusing on special needs of Africa (Millennium Development Goals).
The Economic Commission for Africa focuses on eradicating African poverty, placing
the African Countries on the path of the economic growth and sustainable development, reversing the marginalisation of the African economies in the Globalisation age, and accelerating Women's Empowerment.
The aim of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is to supply technical assistance to the African Peer Review Mechanism and to promote the knowledge.
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) focuses on:
- Regional Integration, international trade, and infrastructure
- Meeting the Millennium Development Goals (Poverty Reduction and Growth, Sustainable Development, and Gender)
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Promoting the Good Governance and popular participation
- Information and communication technologies (ICT), Science, and Technology for development
- statistics
The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) belongs to the African Civilisation.
The Members of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are: "Botswana, Cameroon, Arab Republic of Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Seychelles, Sierra Leone,
Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cape Verde, Comoros, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti,
Egypt, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Central African Republic, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Chad, Togo, Tunisia
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- Eastern African Students:
Eritrea,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Mauritius,
Malawi,
Seychelles,
Somalia,
Sudan,
Tanzania,
and Uganda.
- Southern African Students:
Botswana,
Lesotho,
Namibia,
South Africa,
Swaziland,
Zambia,
and Zimbabwe.
- Western African Students:
The Gambia,
Ghana,
Liberia,
Nigeria and Sierra Leone
- Central African Students:
Cameroon and Rwanda
- Northern African Students:
Egypt and Libya
African Trade Policy Centre:


The Economic Commission for Africa is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. The other regional commissions are:
- Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
- Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
- Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
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