Lopes re-aligns ECA work to better serve Africa's transformation agenda
The new Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Mr. Carlos Lopes today in Addis Ababa announced a major restructuring of ECA’s work programme to better reflect a “changing world, a new phase of globalization” and the present realities of rapid urbanization in Africa which is recording steady economic growth but few jobs and which needs to accelerate its transformation agenda. He told hundreds of ECA staff members in a Town Hall meeting that he had consulted a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including ECA’s strategic partners and staff members over the past three months, and developed a better and more targeted structure with new business processes designed to serve Africa better. The new structure is expected to take effect from March 2013, Lopes called on ECA staff to join any of 10 task forces he established to review and make recommendations that will factor into the operations of the new structure. The task forces will examine wide ranging areas including re-profiling, communications strategy and conferencing. He said he will adopt some recommendations and publicly explain why he does not adopt others, he promised. The overall reaction of ECA staff appears to be one of optimism as they get ready to embrace the change.
| Format: | Press release biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2012-12
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/32065 |
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