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CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND EVENTS
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In the heart of Ethiopia’s capital city, and Africa’s political centre, Addis Ababa, the ECA Conference Center is the ultimate venue for your meetings and conferences. Just 10 minutes’ drive from the airport, with air links to about 100 cities worldwide, right next to the offices of UNECA and other UN specialised agencies, ECACC is the ideal address for leaders driving the global agenda.
Elegant architecture and innovative technology blend seamlessly to create a world-class venue, unprecedented in Africa, offering:
state-of-the-art facilitieslarge meeting roomsexhibition spaceadvanced audio-visual equipmentvideo editing suitesradio-broadcasting studiowell-equipped business centrehigh-speed wireless internet connections catering services
STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FULLY INTEGRATED COMPLETELY SECURED
WHERE WORLD LEADERS CONVENE.
WHERE GLOBAL DECISIONS ARE MADE.
Your meeting space in Addis Ababa
For booking and enquiries, [email protected]
UNCCAddis
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2017CALENDAR OF
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND EVENTS
In the heart of Ethiopia’s capital city, and Africa’s political centre, Addis Ababa, the ECA Conference Center is the ultimate venue for your meetings and conferences. Just 10 minutes’ drive from the airport, with air links to about 100 cities worldwide, right next to the offices of UNECA and other UN specialised agencies, ECACC is the ideal address for leaders driving the global agenda.
Elegant architecture and innovative technology blend seamlessly to create a world-class venue, unprecedented in Africa, offering:
state-of-the-art facilitieslarge meeting roomsexhibition spaceadvanced audio-visual equipmentvideo editing suitesradio-broadcasting studiowell-equipped business centrehigh-speed wireless internet connections catering services
STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FULLY INTEGRATED COMPLETELY SECURED
WHERE WORLD LEADERS CONVENE.
WHERE GLOBAL DECISIONS ARE MADE.
Your meeting space in Addis Ababa
For booking and enquiries, [email protected]
UNCCAddis
ECA ConferenceCenter FP 2016 Final_A4.indd 1 10/6/16 9:56 AM
2 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017
January
22 23 Africa Union Pre-summit- Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) meeting
Addis Ababa
23 23 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in West Africa
Dakar
February
5 9 Mining Indaba 2017 Cape Town
March
23 28 African Development Week: Tenth joint annual meetings of the ECA Conference of African ministers of finance, planning and economic development and the African Union Specialized technical committee on finance, monetary affairs, economic planning and integration
Dakar
25 25 Africa data revolution: Challenges and opportunities
Dakar
Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events*
* This calendar will include in due course, the 10th African Development Forum (ADF X), which was postponed in 2016.
Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017 3
25 26 18th session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) of UN agencies and organizations working in Africa in support of the African Union and its NEPAD programme
Dakar
May
9 11 World Hydropower Congress Addis Ababa
17 19 Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development
Addis Ababa
18 19 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for West Africa
Ouagadougou
24 26 Building capacity for environmental sustainability in artisanal and small scale mining in Africa
Addis Ababa
30 1 Jun.
5th Capitalization Meeting on the European Union land governance programme
Addis Ababa
June
18 19 Transboundary natural resources disputes in Africa: Policies, institutions and management experiences
Abidjan
21 23 Policy dialogue on Governance of maritime resources and activities for sustainable development in Africa
Abidjan
4 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017
27 28 Africa Union Pre-summit- Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) meeting
Addis Ababa
28 29 Review of policy mapping and inclusive economies and Launch of the Policy Mapping Report
Kampala
28 30 High level policy dialogue on mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Abuja
July10 13 United Nations support to the African
Union:• Information sharing and
collaboration framework• Review of Ten-Year Capacity
Building Programme (TYCBP) and transition to Partnership on Africa’s Integration and Development Agenda (PAIDA)
Nairobi
13 15 Risks in financing trans-boundary infrastructure in Africa: Challenges to regional integration
Addis Ababa
15 18 Meeting on transformative industrialization in the context of the Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA)
Johannesburg
28 29 2017 substantive session of the United Nations Economic and Social Council - High-level segment
• High-level political forum on sustainable development
• Annual ministerial review • Development cooperation
forum
New York
Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017 5
September
4 8 Regional meeting on producing vital statistics from civil registration records and measuring completeness of civil registration records and quality assessment
Addis Ababa
26 29 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for Central Africa, including:
• Meeting on harnessing the potential of agribusiness to support structural transformation in Central Africa
• Made in Central Africa: From a vicious to a virtuous circle
Douala
TBC TBC Regional Coordination Mechanism-Triennial Review Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme (TYCBP)
Addis Ababa
October
1 3 Meeting of the African group on national accounts
Addis Ababa
3 6 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for North Africa
Rabat
9 13 Second session of the Committee on Gender and Social Development
Addis Ababa
6 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017
11 12 Regional Commissions meeting on illicit financial flows (IFFs) methodology
Addis Ababa
11 13 7th Conference on Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA-VII)
Nairobi
17 18 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in Central Africa
Douala
19 20 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office in Southern Africa
Lusaka
23 23 Inter-agency meeting on the Africa Programme on accelerated improvement of civil registration and vital statistics
Nouakchott
23 25 Meeting on innovative approaches in Africa for improving civil registration and vital statistics
Nouakchott
23 26 10th session of the Committee on Regional Cooperation and Integration
Addis Ababa
24 24 Observance of UN Day Addis Ababa
25 25 Observance of UN Staff Day Addis Ababa
Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017 7
25 29 High level policy dialogue on urbanization and industrialization for Africa’s transformation
Dakar
25 29 Regional meeting on guideline for integrating urbanization into national development planning
Dakar
26 27 Fourth Conference of African ministers responsible for civil registration
Nouakchott
November
7 9 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for East Africa, including:
• Meeting on strengthening private sector development for structural transformation in Eastern Africa
• Meeting on monitoring progress towards the monetary union in the East Africa Community
Moroni
8 9 Meeting on strengthening democratic transition in post-conflict countries in Central Africa
Bangui
9 10 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in Southern Africa
Lusaka
8 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017
14 17 Conference on Land Policy in Africa - The Africa we want: Achieving socioeconomic transformation through inclusive and equitable access to land by the youth
Addis Ababa
15 17 Senior policy dialogue on science, technology and innovation and the African transformation agenda
Dakar
20 22 Meeting on Geospatial information standards
Addis Ababa
20 22 Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM:Africa)
Addis Ababa
21 24 AfricaGIS (Africa geo-information system) 2017 Conference
Addis Ababa
21 25 Seventh North Africa Development Forum and the eleventh Mediterranean colloquium
Rabat
22 24 AfriGEOSS (Africa-Global Earth Observation System of Systems) Symposium
Addis Ababa
22 24 Meeting on the use of CRVS registration data on measurement of completeness and quality assessment
Gaborone
Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017 9
23 24 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in West Africa
Dakar
23 25 Africa symposium on statistical development
Ouagadougou
29 30 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) - Regional review meeting for Africa
Addis Ababa
December
3 4 African Economic Conference Addis Ababa
TBC TBC High level policy dialogue on Harmonization of policies, laws and regulations on private sector financing of transboundary infrastructure
Addis Ababa
TBC TBC Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in Eastern Africa
TBC
Information presented in this Calendar is subject to change in terms of date and/or venue, and to corrections by the ECA secretariat.
Please visit our website at www.uneca.org/events for quarterly updates.
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2017CALENDAR OF
CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND EVENTS
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