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United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Specialized body of the United Nations

Field	Value
image	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa Logo.svg
image_size	220px
name	United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
type	Primary Organ – Regional Branch
abbreviation	UNECA/ECA
leader_title	Head
leader_name	Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa
Rwanda Claver Gatete
status	Active
formation
headquarters	Africa Hall, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
website	[www.uneca.org](https://www.uneca.org/)
parent_organization	United Nations Economic and Social Council
footnotes

Rwanda Claver Gatete The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA or ECA; , CEA) was established in 1958 by the United Nations Economic and Social Council to encourage economic cooperation among its member states (the nations of the African continent) following a recommendation of the United Nations General Assembly. It is one of five regional commissions.

The ECA has 54 member states, corresponding to the 54 member states of the United Nations that lie within the continent of Africa or in oceans nearby the continent. The ECA's mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member states, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa's development.

On October 6, 2023, the UN Secretary-General appointed Claver Gatete of Rwanda as the Executive Secretary of UNECA, replacing the Cameroonian Vera Songwe.

Themes and programs

The commission's work is structured into seven program divisions:

African Centre for Statistics
Macroeconomic Policy
Social development Policy
Innovation and Technology
Regional integration and Trade
Capacity Development

Implementing Sustainable Development Goals

The ECA seeks to balance the global Sustainable Development Goals with prior regional agendas that are supported by governments. Notably this is done for Agenda 2063, which was agreed on by the African Union a few months before the launch of the SDGs in 2015. To better integrate the two agendas in country plans and activities, UNECA has developed an online tool indicating synergies and trade-offs and an integrated planning and reporting toolkit. In terms of gaps, three of twenty Agenda 2063 goals do not align with any SDG (notably the goals on the establishment of continental financial and monetary institutions and on regional peace and stability, although perhaps these can be caught in a broad definition of SDG 17).

The Regional Fora for Sustainable Development work as a coordination mechanism and resemble a “mini-High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF)” in the region. The Seventh African Forum on Sustainable Development, for example, was followed by efforts to seek more funding for the Congo Basin by taking the conference outcomes to both the COP26 (the 26th conference of the parties to the UN climate convention) in Glasgow in 2021 and to the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

Climate finance

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in more debts for many countries and sparked a global discussion on new financial mechanisms. All of the Regional Commissions—except for the one for Europe, given the prevalence of high-income countries in its membership—launched new initiatives, many linked to climate finance. The ECA launched the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility in 2021 to mobilize (private sector) capital, supported by an asset management firm and a collateral management provider. Its objectives are to support the liquidity of African sovereign eurobonds and incentivize SDG-related investments on the continent.

Locations

The headquarters, Africa Hall, is in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and opened 1961.

There are five subregional headquarters:

Yaoundé, Cameroon (for Central Africa)
Kigali, Rwanda (for East Africa)
Rabat, Morocco (for North Africa)
Lusaka, Zambia (for Southern Africa)
Niamey, Niger (for West Africa)

Member states

Map showing the subregions of the ECA: <br />

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Map showing the member states of the ECA.

Algeria
Angola
Benin
Botswana
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cape Verde
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Comoros
Congo-Brazzaville
Congo-Kinshasa
Djibouti
Egypt
Eritrea
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Ivory Coast
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mozambique
Morocco
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Sudan
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe

Executive secretaries

The commission's headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Name	Country	Years
Claver Gatete	Rwanda	2023–present
Vera Songwe	Cameroon	2017–2023
Carlos Lopes	Guinea-Bissau	2012–2016
Abdoulie Janneh	Gambia	2005–2012
K. Y. Amoako	Ghana	1995–2005
Layashi Yaker	Algeria	1992–1995
Issa Diallo	Guinea	1991–1992
Adebayo Adedeji	Nigeria	1975–1991
Robert K. A. Gardiner	Ghana	1961–1975
Mekki Abbas	Sudan	1959–1961

References

(2024). "United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)". [[Union of International Associations]].
(April 3, 2020). "Commission économique pour l'Afrique".
"Overview of the ECA". UNECA.
(26 November 1957). "Proposed Economic Commission for Africa".
"About {{!}} United Nations Economic Commission for Africa".
"Secretary-General Appoints Claver Gatete of Rwanda Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa {{!}} UN Press".
van Driel, Melanie. (2023). "The UN Regional Commissions as Orchestrators for the Sustainable Development Goals". Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations.
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. (19 May 2022). "The United Nations ECA outlines path for African sovereign debt liquidity and sustainability at the Conference of African Ministers of Finance thanks to the Liquidity & Sustainability Facility it established and with the support of BNY Mellon and Amundi".
''Africa Hall'', published by the Administration and Liaison Office, Addis Ababa (May 1963)

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