Opening remarks by Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah Special Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa: regional consultations on the post 2015 development agenda 11th March 2013 Hammamet Tunisia
The document presents opening remarks by Ms. Aida Opoku-Mensah Special Adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Eco ornic Commission for Africa. I am happy to welcome you on behalf of UNECA and its organizing institutions to the Africa Wide Consultations on the Post 2015 Development Agenda. Some of you will recall that chis process began in October of 2011 when SCA and palmers launched an electronic survey to assess the views of civil society, governments, the private sector and academic institutions on the NIDGs and the post 2015 development agenda. This was followed by regional and sub-regional consultations in Accra-Ghana in November 2011, Mornbassa-Kenya in October 2012 and Dakar Senegal in December of the same year. This process of early consultations has helped strengthen Africa's voice in the global discourse on the post 2015 development agenda. The consultations over the next two days provides us an opportunity to validate and sharpen our messaging on the post 2015 agenda as we move to the next step of articulating and African Common Position on the issue. As we spend the next two days deliberating what Africa's priorities should be in the post-MDG era, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on how the shortfalls of the MDGs call fat a transformative agenda that brings about both economic and social change. This agenda must link structural economic transformation and human development, two aspects that arc inextricably linked and mutually reinforcing.
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| Language: | eng |
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2013-03
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/36531 |
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