Twenty-seventh Ordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS): Statement by by K. Y. Amoako, executive secretary, economic commission for Africa

This Statement delivered by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa at the Twenty-seventh Ordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS). Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, ECOWAS member States have not been quite as successful in providing education to their children as SADC or the East African Community, which all boast higher enrolment rates. Additionally, several member states of ECOWAS do not look likely to meet this MDG in time. Finally, MDGs have set the target of reducing the proportion of people without access to safe and adequate water supply by 50 per cent by 2015. But although trends show that safe drinking water is becoming increasingly available to larger numbers of people in West Africa, the sub-region is still lagging behind the African average. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a unique and unprecedented crisis, unlike the many other development problems facing Africa in its scale, nature and implications. The epidemic is killing tens of millions of Africans in their prime, undermining governance capacity, tearing apart the social fabric and throwing development into reverse. The Commission aims to equip African policymakers with the tools for addressing the profound structural impact HIV/AIDS is having on our capacity to meet our development challenges.

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Format:	Speech biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	2003
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31346
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