Opening remarks by Abdoulie Janneh, UN under-secretary-general and executive secretary of ECA
Opening Remarks by Abdoulie Janneh, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA at the Conference of Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Twenty-sixth meeting of the Committee of Experts. Mr. Janneh, on his remarks highlighted that, The choice of the theme of this year's Conference “ Accelerating Africa's Growth and Development to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): Emerging Challenges and Way Forward ” is thus a direct response to this identified need. “ It is now critically important that we review both the progress we have made and the obstacles we have encountered in order to learn the lessons and become more operational”. Our newly re-energized Sub-regional Offices (SROs) will play an active role as operational arms of the Commission and as subregional hubs of our ECA's peer learning and knowledge sharing initiatives. We continue to strengthen our partnership with our UN System colleagues, and have signed Memorandums of Understanding with UNDP and UNFPA. ECA and UNDP are supporting MDG-based planning in member States and are, together with the AUC and the ADB preparing an MDG Report for submission to the AU Summit in July in Accra, Ghana. These partnerships - and new ones that we hope to build and nurture in the coming months - have one thing in common: to enhance our ability as your institution to more effectively accompany our member States in their development journey, including in their efforts to reach the MDGs by the target date.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2007-03
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31126 |
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