4 TIMELINE OF LANDMARK DECISIONS, REGIONAL POLICIES AND FRAMEWORKS

1961 1957 The Africa Hall building was 1969 formally opened and donated by 1964 Second Committee His Imperial Majesty on behalf Conference of Ministers (COM) of the UN General of the peoples of to ECA African Development Bank (AfDB) was established by resolution 188 Assembly by resolution as its Secretariat headquarters. established through resolution 96(VI). (IX) as the highest legislative 155 (XII) requests Later this was the venue where organ of the Commission and 1975 the Economic Social the Charter of the Organization of ECA subregional Office for Eastern and Southern composed of the Ministers of African Training and Research Council (ECOSOC) to African Unity (OAU) was signed by Africa was established in Lusaka at the first Governments of the member Centre for Women (ATRCW) establish and economic the Heads of African States when Conference of African Planners convened in late States responsible for economic established under Conference commission for Africa. the OAU was inaugurated in 1963. 1964 through resolution 104(VI). and social development planning. of Ministers resolution 269 (XII).

1958 1963 1965 1968 1972 ECOSOC through resolution 671A ECA and the International Civil ECA Subregional Office for Association of African Regional demographic training (XXV) of 29 April 1958 establishes Aviation Organization (ICAO) was established Central Banks (AACB) institutes set up in Accra, Ghana - the the Economic Commission for embarked on a study of air transport in Kinshasa, the Democratic was created to promote Regional Institute for Population Africa and lays down its Terms of in Africa, which resulted in the first Republic of the Congo monetary and financial Studies (RIPS), and in Yaounde, Reference. African Air Transport Conference through resolution 150(VII). integration in Africa. All Cameroun - the Institut de Formation being organized by ECA and ICAO African Central Banks belong et de Recherches Demoqraphiques ECA is formerly inaugurated in 1964. to the AACB. (IFORD). on 29 December 1958 in . His Majesty ECA Subregional Office for West I, , the UN Africa was established in Niamey Secretary-General Mr. Dag and ECA Subregional Office for North Hammarskjold and the first ECA Africa was established in Tangier, Executive Secretary, Mr. Mekki Morocco through resolution 64(IV). Abbas, address the first session of the Commission which was African Institute for Economic attended by full members. Development (IDEP) was established through resolution 58 (IV). 1977 The Revised Framework of Principles for the Implementation of the New 1981 International Economic Order in Pan-African Documentation Africa was endorsed by OAU Heads and Information System of State and Government. (PADIS) for social and economic development inaugurated The African Regional Centre for following recommendations Technology established in 1977 with by a joint mission composed 1990 headquarters in Dakar, for training 1979 of ECA, OAU and IDRC in in human resources development collaboration with UNESCO, UN The twenty-sixth ordinary and promote the development, The “Monrovia Declaration Department of International session of the Assembly adaptation, transfer and application of Commitment of the Heads Economic and Social Affairs, 1987 of Heads of State and of local and foreign technology in of State and Government of and UNDP. Government of OAU adopted Africa. the OAU on the guidelines The African Common Position on resolution AHG Res. 179 (XXV) and measures for national The Preferential Trade Area for Africa’s External Debt Crisis was calling upon OAU, ECA and The General Assembly proclaimed and collective self-reliance in Eastern and Southern African adopted; the Abuja Statement the African Development Bank in resolution 32/160 Transport economic and social development Countries (PTA) established. on Economic Recovery and (AfDB) “to coordinate and pool and Communications Decade in for the establishment of a new Long-Term Development in Africa the efforts and resources so as Africa (UNTACDA) calling upon the international economic order” was United Nations Programme of was declared by the International to provide, a joint secretariat”. international community to provide adopted by African Heads of State Action for Africa’s Economic Conference on Africa; and the technical and financial assistance to and Government at their sixteenth Recovery and Development, Challenge of Economic Recovery African Charter for Popular Africa for implementing the Decade ordinary session, held in Monrovia, (UN-PAAERD) 1986-1990 was and Accelerated Development, Participation in Development programme. Liberia. adopted. convened in Abuja, Nigeria. adopted.

1978 1980 1986 1988 1989 Multi-National Programming and Lagos Plan of Action for the Africa’s Priority Programme for The Khartoum Declaration: African Charter for Social Action, adopted by Operational Centres (MULPOCs) Economic Development of Africa, Economic Recovery (APPER) was Towards A Human-focused African Ministers of Social Affairs. were established in Niamey (the 1980-2000 was adopted by African prepared jointly by ECA and the Approach to Socioeconomic Niger), Lusaka (Zambia), Gisenyi Heads of State and Government. Organization of African Unity and Recovery and Development The Conference of Minsters in its resolution (Rwanda), Tangier (Morocco) and adopted by African Heads of State in Africa was adopted by the 676 (XXIV) adopted the African Alternative Yaounde (Cameroon). The Assembly of Heads of State and Government. International Conference on Framework to Structural Adjustment and Government of the OAU in the Human Dimension of Programmes (AAF-SAP). its second extraordinary session Africa’s Economic Recovery and adopts the Final Act of Lagos Development, convened in directing the Secretary General Khartoum, Sudan. of the OAU, in cooperation with the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to take all the appropriate measures to implement the Lagos Plan of Action at various stages. 1996 Serving Africa better: strategic directions 1991 for the Economic Commission for Africa Second Industrial (strategic framework document outlining Development Decade for ECA reform and renewal process) was 2001 Africa (IDDA II): 1991 – 2000 endorsed by the thirty-first session of the NEPAD is formally adopted as 2004 was instituted. Commission. an integrated socio-economic ECA member States development framework for endorsed the African Gender Second Transport and The African Information Society Initiative Africa by the 37th Ordinary Development Index (AGDI) Communications Decade in (AISI), was launched in 1996 by resolution Session of the Assembly of during Beijing Plus Ten Africa (UNTACDA II): 1991 – 812(XXXI) and adopted by the ECA OAU held in Lusaka, Zambia, Review in Addis Ababa in 2000 was instituted. Conference of Ministers. in July 2001. October 2004.

1994 1997 1999 2002 2003 Fifth African Regional Conference on Women (preparatory Conference to Africa Regional Coordinating Decision on the The Constitutive Act of the The the Fourth World Conference on Women. Beijing) held in Dakar. Senegal. Committee for the Integration Implementation of the African Union was adopted established the African African Platform for Action: African common position for the advancement of Women in Development, Yamoussoukro Declaration by the thirty-sixth ordinary Peer Review Mechanism of women was adopted. eighteenth meeting was held concerning the Liberalisation session of the Assembly (APRM) in the framework of in Addis Ababa. of Access to Air Transport of Heads of State and the implementation of the By its resolution 791(XXIX) the ECA Conference of Ministers changed the Markets in Africa” adopted Governments of OAU in New Partnership for Africa’s name of the African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATRCW) to Resolution 826(XXXII) by a conference of African Lomé, Togo. Development (NEPAD). African Centre for Women (ACW). on reform of the Ministers responsible for intergovernmental machinery Civil in Yamoussoukro, The Conference of Minsters Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community (commonly known of the ECA was adopted. Cote d’lvoire in November endorsed ECA Executive as the Abuja Treaty) entered into force. 1999 and endorsed by the Secretary’s proposal of Resolution 827(XXXII) Assembly of Heads of State the Compact of African The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) on rationalization and and Government of the Recovery. launched the Cairo Agenda that recommends to the international harmonization of ECA- African Economic Community community a set of important population and development objectives. sponsored institutions was in July 2000. The Decision adopted. entered into force on 12 August 2000.

22 _ ECA – 60 Years in Step with African Development 2009 2018 2006 The Africa Mining Vision (AMV) was Establishment of the African Continental endorsed to offer a unique, pan- 2015 Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), a major ECA starts a process, through African pathway to finally reverse 2012 milestone in the long march towards the then Food Security and the old paradigm regarding the The African Centre of Meteorological African Economic Integration. Sustainable Development management of Africa’s mineral Decision and Declaration to Application for Development (ACMAD) Division (FSSD), to establish wealth. establish a Continental Free was designated to host WMO’s Regional The thirty-first ordinary session of the the African Climate Policy Trade Area made, during the Climate Centre (RCC) to serve the Assembly of the African Union Summit Centre (ACPC) with a view of ECA Institutional Repository, developed eighteenth ordinary session Africa region. in Nouakchott, Mauritania, decided integrating climate change to provide an online mechanism of the Assembly of Heads of to transform the NEPAD Planning and into policies affecting climate for collecting, preserving, and State and Government of the Supporting the Rise of Africa’s Think Coordination Agency into the African sensitive sectors, and with a disseminating – in digital format all African Union, held in Addis Tanks – ECA hosted the second African Union Development Agency as the focus on food security. ECA knowledge products. Ababa, in January 2012. Think Tank Summit (picture above). technical body of the African Union.

2005 2008 2013 2016 The first Mutual Review Conference of Ministers endorses the creation of The African Minerals Development Conference of Ministers requested a tool to Report of Development the Climate Information for Development in Africa Centre (AMDC) was set up to facilitate the integration of the 2030 Agenda and Effectiveness, initiated (ClimDev-Africa) initiative with the objective of implement the Vision and its Action Agenda 2063 in national development plans by the NEPAD Heads of ensuring effective integration of climate information Plan, in response to the need for a and simultaneously track performance on the State and Government and services into development planning and central and strategic organization. two agendas leading to the development of the Implementation Committee mainstreaming of climate considerations into Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit. (HSGIC) and jointly policies and programme aimed at achieving the developed by ECA and Millennium Development Goals. OECD, launched. Improving Africa’s Participation in Global Research and Development. ECA launched “Science with Africa”.

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