dc.description | Executive Secretary Claver Gatete met with the African Group of Ambassadors during ECA’s 36 briefing to African Ambassadors meeting in a productive session that discussed the focus of upcoming key events COM 2024 in VicFalls Zimbabwe, 2024 ARFSD in Cairo, Egypt, and the Summit of the future. He stressed the need for a strong African voice on the global stage to remove barriers to financing, which is crucial for meeting pressing developmental challenges caused by multiple crises, such as climate change, high inflation, and mounting debt. He stressed need to de-risk investments and crowd in the private sector as key to meeting Africa’s development challenges. The reform of the global architecture is needed now more than ever to allow urgent access to financing, including SDRs, which can be channeled through MDBs, stressed Claver, while acknowledging the shifts in the G20 with the inclusion of the AU as a step towards a string voice in global governance, He called on member states to make concerted efforts for full engagement and representation in all these processes so that Africa is not left behind. This being the first meeting with Claver Gatete the Africa Group welcomed him to Addis Ababa and agreed on regular engagements to strengthen the work of ECA working with member states to achieve the SDGs and Agenda 2063. | en |
dc.title | ECA's 36th Briefing to African Ambassadors | en |
ags.publisherPlace | Addis Ababa | en |
ags.publisherName | UN. ECA | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-02T11:46:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-02T11:46:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-02-06 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10855.1/4141 | |
uneca.workflow.processed | true | |
uneca.language.supported | en | |
dc.coverage.spatial | AFRICA | |
dc.format.medium | JPEG | |
dc.language | en_US | |
dc.type | Photo | |
ags.creatorCorporate | United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa | |
ags.subjectThesaurus | WORK PROGRAMME | |
ags.subjectThesaurus | PROGRAMME PLANNING | |
ags.subjectThesaurus | OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES | |
ags.subjectThesaurus | AMBASSADORS | |
ags.subjectThesaurus | PROGRAMME EVALUATION | |
ags.subjectClassification | 01.02.00 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | |
ags.subjectClassification | 18.05.00 PROGRAMME PLANNING | |
ags.subjectClassification | 18.06.00 OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES | |
ags.descriptionNotes | Briefing | |
ags.rights.TermsOfUse | Public | |
ags.availabilityLocation | ECA-HQ | |