Commission For Africa Research Articles

The Lagos Plan of Action—Legal Mechanisms for Co-Operation Between the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

The African continent represents a region which faces economic problems of the utmost severity at a time when the global economy itself is ravaged by inflation, unemployment and the effects of a world recession. Africa contains 21 of the world's 45 least-developed nations. Its total Gross National Product accounts for only 2·7 per cent. of the world's Product and Africa has the lowest average per capita income in the world. Many African countries lack basic medical and health care facilities while food shortages and severe unemployment affect a very high proportion of African peoples. Internal African development strategies of the past have been subjected to critical investigation in an attempt to assess the sources of the continent's development problems. Despite its vast natural resources and the praiseworthy efforts of many African governments, the continent as a whole (excluding South Africa) is unable to show any significant economic expansion or growth.The 1980 Lagos Plan of Action represents the most recent initiative undertaken by the Organisation of African Unity (O.A.U.) in conjunction with the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (E.C.A.) to develop a successful regional strategy for African development. It aims at economic growth in each individual African state in different sectors including food and agriculture, industry and in environmental and energy matters. It adopts specific as well as general targets with time limits, for each aspect of economic planning.

African Television and Training

‘The public disappointment at the performance of television still continues. Broadcasting personnel are rarely well trained.’ UN Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 1979.

The Role of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Economic Co-Operation (Integration) in Africa

The Role of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and Economic Co-Operation (Integration) in Africa

AFRICAN MINERALS AND AMERICAN POLICY

Abstract : Major A. D. Ackels is presently a student at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He holds a bachelor's degree in History and Political Science from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree in Comparative Politics from Georgetown University. Major Ackels entered the Army in 1965 and has since served in a variety of command and staff positions, including overseas tours in Japan and Vietnam. In 1972, he joined the Foreign Area Officer program as a specialist in Sub~Saharan Africa. Since then he has served in Ethiopia and has travelled in 14 other African nations. Field research for this article was done in Addis Ababa, at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, and in Washington, D.C., while Major Ackels was serving as an African Analyst in the Capabilities and Readiness Division of the Army's Intelligence and Security Command. In attempting to demonstrate the importance of Africa as a potential source of raw materials, this study focuses on eight metals: aluminum (bauxite), chromium, cobalt, copper, iron, manganese, platinum, and uranium. These minerals were selected because they are found in commercially exploitable quantities in Sub-Saharan Africa, because they have a variety of applications in American industry, because they represent metals for which there are at present no generally suitable substitutes, or because they represent important underused deposits of metals widely recognized to be essential to all industrialized nations.

THE CHALLENGE OF AFRICA'S WATER DEVELOPMENT

Natural Resources ForumVolume 1, Issue 4 p. 369-375 THE CHALLENGE OF AFRICA'S WATER DEVELOPMENT K. V. KRISHNAMURTHY, K. V. KRISHNAMURTHY Mr. K. V. Krishnamurthy is Senior Technical Adviser to the Secretary-General of the UN Water Conference. Earlier, he was the consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in connexion with the African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the UN Water Conference, when his activities included missions to several African countries as part of the preparatory process. From 1966 to 1973 he was the manager of the Project for the Hydrometeorological Survey of Lakes Victoria, Kyoga and Mobutu Sese Seko.Search for more papers by this author K. V. KRISHNAMURTHY, K. V. KRISHNAMURTHY Mr. K. V. Krishnamurthy is Senior Technical Adviser to the Secretary-General of the UN Water Conference. Earlier, he was the consultant to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in connexion with the African Regional Preparatory Meeting for the UN Water Conference, when his activities included missions to several African countries as part of the preparatory process. From 1966 to 1973 he was the manager of the Project for the Hydrometeorological Survey of Lakes Victoria, Kyoga and Mobutu Sese Seko.Search for more papers by this author First published: July 1977 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-8947.1977.tb00076.x AboutRelatedInformationPDFPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessClose modalShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume1, Issue4July 1977Pages 369-375 RelatedInformation RecommendedAllergen inhalation challenge in smoking compared with non‐smoking asthmatic subjectsZ. Meghji, B. Dua, R. M. Watson, G. M. Gauvreau, P. M. O'Byrne, Clinical & Experimental AllergySouth Africa: the challenge of social developmentJames Midgley, International Journal of Social WelfareExhaled nitric oxide in asthmatic children and adolescents after nasal allergen challengeChristophe Pedroletti, Joachim Lundahl, Kjell Alving, Gunilla Hedlin, Pediatric Allergy and ImmunologySOUTH AFRICA AND THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT: ECONOMIC SPIN-OFFS AND LINKAGESOLUDELE A AKINBOADE, PINKY LALTHAPERSAD-PILLAY, South African Journal of EconomicsSpatial development initiatives in Southern Africa: The Maputo Development CorridorChristian M. Rogerson, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

U.N. and other international organizations

African Economic Indicators, 1975. U.N. Economic Commission for Africa, New York (1977). 60 pp. Unpriced. This is the most recent edition of an annual Economic Commission for Africa publication presenting comparative economic data for African countries. Most of the data is presented in chart form with accompanying explanatory text. Statistics on national accounts, population, education and health, trade, and transportation are among the topics covered.

Distribution of intergovernmental depository collections among libraries in the United States

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After a Symposium on Development — The Red Cross in Africa

As announced in the last issue of the International Review, a Symposium on the Development of the Red Cross in Africa was recently held at Montreux (Switzerland). It was organized by the League of Red Cross Societies and attended by officers of thirty-five African Societies and representatives of eight of the main donor Societies which had contributed to the programme for the development of the Red Cross in Africa over the past ten years. Experts from African universities, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and other United Nations agencies also attended the Symposium, as did representatives of the League, the ICRC and the Joint Committee for the Reappraisal of the Role of the Red Cross.

ROLE OF MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL HEALTH AND CARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONALITY OF CHILDREN IN AFRICA

ROLE OF MATERNAL NUTRITIONAL HEALTH AND CARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND PERSONALITY OF CHILDREN IN AFRICA Get access E. O. IDUSOGIE E. O. IDUSOGIE Regional Nutrition Officer, FAO Secretary and Coordinator, Joint FAO/WHO/OAU Regional Food and Nutrition Commission for Africa, FAO Regional Office for AfricaAccra, Ghana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, Volume 21, Issue supp1, February 1975, Pages 31–35, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.tropej.a057386 Published: 01 February 1975

THE THIRD UNITED NATIONS CARTOGRAPHIC CONFERENCE FOR AFRICA ADDIS ABABA OCTOBER–NOVEMBER 1972

Abstract The Conference was held in a committee room of the Africa Hall, the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa, whose Cartographic Adviser, Mr. Charly Antoun was Technical Secretary. Due to the short notice, only a few national reports and technical papers were available before the Conference or at the beginning; but others came through in time to be read before they were presented. There were no advanced, technical papers—it was not that sort of conference. Under the firm management of Mr. Coker (Director of Federal Surveys Nigeria and President of the Conference) and of the Technical Secretary, the actual conduct of the discussions (in English and French) was excellent. The fact that there was no splitting up into separate technical commissions and the small size of the conference (only about 80 members) made it relatively easy to start punctually and keep everyone informed of the programme. The same four interpreters functioned efficiently throughout, apd there was virtually no trouble...

UN economic conference in Africa

The 11th session of the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the second Ministerial Conference of that Organisation took place in Accra from February 19 to 23, 1973. The Commission—a regional organisation of the United Nations—has 41 independent African states as members.

The Economic Commission for Africa

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) was established in 1958 by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations ECOSOC) by virtue of its powers contained in Article 68 of the United Nations Charter and in pursuance of resolution 1155(XII) adopted on November 26th, 1957 by the General Assembly of the United Nations. In exercise of its power aforesaid, the ECOSOC by its resolution 671A(XXV) of April 29th, 1958, not only established the ECA but also prescribed the legal framework in relation to the functions, membership, etc. of the ECA. The geographical scope of the work of the ECA is the whole continent of Africa, Madagascar and other African islands. This legal framework, which is referred to in resolution 671A(XXV) above as “the Terms of Reference of the Economic Commission for Africa”, provides that the ECA shall be subject to the general supervision of the ECOSOC in the performance of its functions which shall be within the framework of the United Nations, and that the ECA shall take no action with respect to any country without the agreement of that country. In particular, the functions of the ECA are to initiate and participate in measures for facilitating concerted action for the economic and social development of Africa with a view to raising the level of economic activity and levels of living in Africa, and for maintaining and strengthening the economic relations of the countries and territories of Africa both among themselves and with other countries of the world.

The Institutional Framework of the Association of African Central Banks

In 1966, the first Conference of African Central Banks was organized by the Economic Commission for Africa at which it was decided that a permanent association of African Central Banks should be established to foster co-operation amongst its members. An interim committee consisting of representatives from the Economic Commission for Africa, the African Development Bank and the African Institute of Economic Development and Planning, prepared draft articles of association for consideration by a second Conference of Central African Banks. This Conference, again, organized by the Economic Commission for Africa, was held from August 7th–13th, 1968 at Accra, where the Articles of the Association of African Central Banks were adopted.

ECA (Economic Commission for Africa) Rural Development Conference at Accra

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What Role for E.C.A.? or Pan-Africanism Revisited

For most organisations, a tenth anniversary session is a time for dwelling on the significance of past achievements while resolutely insisting that the best is yet to come in terms of new initiatives. The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (E.C.A.) proved to be no exception when it met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during late January and early February 1969. Yet, behind the formal façade of celebration, one sensed an anxious attempt to overstate the results of past efforts in order to enlist support for a dynamic future which seems highly improbable. Because E.C.A. as an institution faces a serious crisis of confidence, its secretariat and its supporters seemed to seize on the tenth anniversary celebrations almost as if this were the last chance to change radically the Commission's role and image in the eyes of both Africa and the world. Indeed, the 1969 Commission session marked the culmination of an attempt by Robert K. A. Gardiner – the Commission's able Executive Secretary – and his associates to reverse the downward trend of E.C.A.'s influence and prestige since those halcyon early days of 1958–9 when Africans had such great hopes for their Commission.

Nigerian Cities: Their Rehabilitation and Redevelopment

The hearts of many cities in Nigeria are like islands of poverty in seas of relative affluence. It does not require professional skill in environmental perception to note the difference between the residential, environmental, and the overall physical structure of the central parts of Lagos and Ibadan, for example, and their suburbs. Well-designed and relatively well-maintained neighbourhoods in the suburbs and in the newer sections of these cities are inhabited by the affluent, the middle-class, and the privileged. At the other polar end are the majority of urbanites— citizens massing themselves in the unkempt and often squalid hearts of the cities, living under conditions that are at times sub-human and sharing sub-standard houses in areas which, by any standard, are slums. Unfortunately, concern over the slums, on the part of the privileged, the public authorities, and the citizens themselves, is insignificant. There has been much talking, much academic analysis, and much propaganda, but little or no action. Hence there has been little accomplishment and hardly any change in the plight of the low-income people who are directly bearing the brunt of the urban problems. Many academicians, both nationals and expatriates, have drawn attention to the multi-dimensionality of the urban problems facing Nigeria (see Bascom 1955; Lloyd 1960; Mitchel 1962; Miner 1960; Herskivits 1930, 1962; Mabogunje 1961, 1962ab; United Nations Economic Commission for Africa 1962). Most of their studies, however, have been confined to general description of the ugly urban phenomena, to historical emergence of slums, and to geographical and sociological analyses of the urban problems.

Reflections from Afar on the Ninth Session of the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa

The latest annual session of E.C.A. was also a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the organisation, in the presence of H. I. M. Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, and U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations. Only those who were there can hope to evaluate fully the proceedings, but the reflections of one who attended the five previous sessions in a working capacity, and is now able to view E.C.A. from a more distant perspective, may be not without interest.

Agriculture Versus Industry in Economic Development

Writing in a previous issue of this Journal, A. F. Ewing has stated that ‘it is fortunately no longer necessary to argue in favour of industrialisation in opposition to another approach to economic development’, although ‘the doctrine that industry is the key to economic development is of comparatively recent origin’. The article is entitled ‘Industrialisation and the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa’.1

Inter-Governmental Meeting on Youth Employment and National Development

Organised by the Economic Commission for Africa, with the Government of Niger as host, this meeting brought together delegates from 16 African Governments (11 French-speaking, 5 English-speaking) and observer/ participants from the United Nations and its specialised agencies (I.L.O., U.N.E.S.C.O., U.N.I.C.E.F., F.A.O., W.H.O.), the O.A.U., the World Assembly of Youth, the World Y.W.C.A., the Organisation internationale des employeurs, and the All Africa Conference of Churches.

Economic and Social Council

Economic Commission for Africa: The eighth session of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), held on February 13–25, 1967, in Lagos, Nigeria, was attended by 29 African states, five associate members, 27 observers, and representatives of United Nations organs and other organizations. The Chairman, A. A. Ayida (Nigeria), stated that Botswana, Gambia, and Lesotho, after accession to independence, were now full members of the Commission. Following the report of the Executive Secretary on the measures taken in pursuance of a Commission resolution on the participation of the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, and South West Africa in the work of the Commission ECA unanimously adopted a resolution which recommended that the Organization of African Unity (OAU) designate the representatives of the territories concerned and inform the secretariat accordingly.