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In support of progress towards regional integration in Africa, the Economic Commission for Africa, African Union Commission and African Development Bank jointly produce Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA). The first edition (ARIA I), published in 2004, provided a comprehensive assessment of the status of regional integration in Africa, with subsequent editions focusing on thematic areas. Thus ARIA II examined the rationalization of regional economic communities and their overlapping memberships. ARIA III addressed macroeconomic policy convergence, as well as monetary and financial integration in the regional economic communities. ARIA IV focused on enhancing intra-African trade. ARIA V provided analytical research and empirical evidence to support the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area and the benefits that African countries stand to gain from it. ARIA VI, "Harmonizing policies to transform the trading environment", carries forward the momentum of January 2012's decision and declaration by addressing the issue of harmonizing rules of origin and trade facilitation to ease Continental Free Trade Area negotiations by member States. The report starts with a brief overview of progress in regional integration, followed by discussions on the harmonization of three key prerequisites to pave the way for a meaningful continental market - rules of origin, trade facilitation instruments and cross-border linkages for information and communications technology

This publication is based on the results of piloting the African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) in 12 African countries across the five subregions of the continent. Making a case for countries to invest in sex disaggregated data collection, the outcomes provide an indication of the general situation of women across the continent. The result of the AGDI trials demonstrate that countries have shown commitment to international, regional and subregional treaties affecting women through overwhelming ratification. The report confirms existing MDG status reports which indicate remarkable progress being made with respect to MDG2 on universal Access to Basic Education. With the aid of systematic collection of sex aggregated data, the report calls for enhanced commitment towards accelerated implementation of gender equality as outlined in frameworks such as the ICPD+15, Beijing+15, the Convention of the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the African Women's Protocol.--Publisher's description

Die 1996 gestartete "African Information Society Initiative (AISI)" der ECA soll die Einführung und Nutzung moderner Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien fördern. Zusammen mit "Partnership for Information and Communication Technologies for Africa (PICTA)" unterstützt sie die Ausarbeitung nationaler E-Pläne, Pläne der "National Information and Communication Infrastructure (NICI)". Die Veröffentlichung gibt einen Überblick über den Stand und die wesentlichen Charakteristika der NICI-Pläne in ausgewählten Ländern; die Pläne von Ruanda und Senegal werden detailliert untersucht. (DÜI-Sbd)

Das zweite African Development Forum der ECA (ADF II) befasste sich mit dem Kampf gegen AIDS und der Frage, wie Führung ("leadership") in den verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen (z.B. traditionelle Autoritäten, Entscheidungsträger, Staatschefs) zum Kampf gegen die Seuche beitragen kann. Die Konferenz, die Akteure aus Politik und Zivilgesellschaft zusammenführte, verabschiedete mit dem "Addis Ababa consensus" ein (hier dokumentiertes) Aktionsprogramm, das auf nationaler Ebene zu zahlreichen Workshops führte, in denen die Umsetzung dieses Programms überprüft wurde. (DÜI-Sbd)