The Expert Group Meeting on Adolescent Girls and their Rights: Statement by Mr. K.Y. Amoako, UN under secretary general and executive secretary of ECA

Statement by Mr. K.Y. Amoako, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of ECA at the Expert Group Meeting on Adolescent Girls and their Rights. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, The theme of this meeting, Adolescent Girls and their Rights, is one that is close to our hearts here at ECA, and key to the development of Africa itself. Today's children, adolescents and young people in general, will be Africa's leaders in the next millennium. The empirical evidence on the positive economic returns from female parity is overwhelming. Supporting a stronger role for the African women will contribute to economic growth, reduce fertility, improve child survival, and slow the population explosion. We at ECA are fully committed to gender equality, with all it implies and entails. In the newly-restructured ECA, defined by strategic focus, our aim is to become a policy integrator, a networker and a disseminator of development ideas and best practices among the ECA Member States. ECA is organizing a major consultation conference scheduled to take place next April. The conference, entitled 'Forging Partnerships for Africa's Future: Gender Perspectives", will bring together high level African policy-makers from various sectors, representatives of civil society, representatives of African sub regional and regional organizations, and experts from different parts of the world.

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Format:	Speech biblioteca
Language:	eng
Published:	1997-10
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47467
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