Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN's five regional commissions, 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. Made up of 54 member States, and playing a dual role as a regional arm of the UN and as a key component of the African institutional landscape, ECA is well positioned to make unique contributions to address the Continent’s development challenges.
ECA’s mission, objective and strategic directions
Is to deliver ideas and actions for an empowered and transformed Africa; informed by the 2030 Agenda and Agenda 2063. The mission is guided by ECA’s five new strategic directions which are:
(a) Advancing ECA’s position as a premier knowledge institution that builds on its unique position and privilege to bring global solutions to the continent’s problems and take local solution to the continent;
(b) Developing macroeconomic and structural policy options to accelerate economic diversification and job creation;
(c) Designing and implementing innovative financing models for infrastructure, and for human, physical and social assets for a transforming Africa;
(d) Contributing solutions to regional and transboundary challenges, with a focus on peace security and social inclusion as an important development nexus;
(e) Advocating Africa’s position at the global level and developing regional responses as a contribution to global governance issues.
The International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE) has a worldwide membership of agricultural economists and others concerned with agricultural economic problems, organized to:
ONU Mujeres es la organización de las Naciones Unidas dedicada a promover la igualdad de género y el empoderamiento de las mujeres. Como defensora mundial de mujeres y niñas, ONU Mujeres fue establecida para acelerar el progreso que conllevará a mejorar las condiciones de vida de las mujeres y para responder a las necesidades que enfrentan en el mundo
La Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC) es un mecanismo intergubernamental de diálogo y concertación política. Su membresía incluye a los treinta y tres (33) países de América Latina y el Caribe.
Surge con el compromiso de avanzar en el proceso gradual de integración de la región, haciendo un sabio equilibrio entre la unidad y la diversidad política, económica, social y cultural de los 600 millones de habitantes de América Latina y el Caribe.
Desde su puesta en marcha, en diciembre de 2011, la CELAC ha contribuido a profundizar el diálogo respetuoso entre todos los países de la región, en temas como el desarrollo social, la educación, el desarme nuclear, la agricultura familiar, la cultura, las finanzas, la energía y el medio ambiente.
Asimismo, la CELAC ha promovido que América Latina y el Caribe se asuma a sí misma como una comunidad de naciones, capaz de dialogar y de buscar consensos en temas de interés común.
The multi-donor ABS Capacity Development Initiative holds the unique position as a global information and knowledge broker on Access and Benefit-sharing (ABS).
The ABS Initiative’s focus is on contributing to the establishment of functioning ABS agreements between providers and users of genetic resources. It also supports several countries in designing and implementing the required regulatory frameworks.
The Initiative addresses the rising number of requests to support national ABS implementation through three core processes:
The ultimate goal is to help create enabling environments in which genetic resources and the associated traditional knowledge are utilized in a sustainable way, while ABS delivers economic and development opportunities to all relevant stakeholders.
By better actualizing the poverty alleviation potential of ABS at the nexus of natural resource management, trade and governance, the Initiative contributes to the implementation of the Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Assisting 80 million people in around 80 countries each year, the World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030, one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty. On any given day, WFP has 5,000 trucks, 20 ships and 92 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need. Every year, we distribute approximately 12.6 billion rations at an estimated average cost per ration of US$ 0.31. These numbers lie at the roots of WFP’s unparalleled reputation as an emergency responder, one that gets the job done quickly at scale in the most difficult environments. WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations. Two-thirds of our work is in conflict-affected countries where people are three times more likely to be undernourished than those living in countries without conflict.
El Mercado Común del Sur (MERCOSUR) es un proceso de integración regional instituido inicialmente por Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay al cual en fases posteriores se han incorporado Venezuela* y Bolivia, ésta última en proceso de adhesión.
Sus idiomas oficiales de trabajo son el español y el portugués. La versión oficial de los documentos de trabajo será la del idioma del país sede de cada reunión. A partir del 2006, por medio de la Decisión CMC Nº 35/06, se incorporó al guaraní como uno de los idiomas del Bloque.
EL MERCOSUR es un proceso abierto y dinámico. Desde su creación tuvo como objetivo principal propiciar un espacio común que generara oportunidades comerciales y de inversiones a través de la integración competitiva de las economías nacionales al mercado internacional. Como resultado ha establecido múltiples acuerdos con países o grupos de países, otorgándoles, en algunos casos, carácter de Estados Asociados –es la situación de los países sudamericanos–. Estos participan en actividades y reuniones del bloque y cuentan con preferencias comerciales con los Estados Partes. El MERCOSUR también ha firmado acuerdos de tipo comercial, político o de cooperación con una diversa cantidad de naciones y organismos en los cinco continentes.
ActionAid Bangladesh starting its journey from a very small with a minimalist approach today has become a relatively important player of the vibrant NGO movement that seeks to fight poverty in the country.ActionAid came to Bangladesh in 1983 to support an orphanage in Bhola named 'For Those Who Have Less' (locally known as 'Bittohin'). Today ActionAid is committed to changing the capacities of people and groups whose rights have been denied and violated in attaining justice and a life of dignity. ActionAid Bangladesh also assists efforts and builds capacities of actors of civil society and partner communities’ whom we believe are engaged in safeguarding and promoting people’s rights.
The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a Continental body that brings National Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services (AEAS) under one umbrella. Its mission is to promote lesson learning and add value to initiatives in agricultural advisory services through sharing of information and increased professional interaction, and its goal is to enhance utilization of improved knowledge and innovations by agricultural value chain actors for improving productivity oriented towards their individual and national development objectives.
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
CIRIEC (International Centre of Research and Information on the Public, Social and Cooperative Economy) is a non-governmental international scientific organization. Its objectives are to undertake and promote the collection of information, scientific research, and the publication of works on economic sectors and activities oriented towards the service of the general and collective interest.
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency dealing with labour issues, particularly international labour standards, social protection, and work opportunities for all.
CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International) is an international not-for-profit organization that improves people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
Our approach involves putting information, skills and tools into people's hands. CABI's 48 member countries guide and influence our work.
The mission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change.
This publication, consisting of several modules, includes participatory research approaches for examining a wide range of questions regarding if and how farming practices are being modified to deal with a changing environment, and the constraints and opportunities these changes pose for both men and women. It also covers three main research priorities relating to the climate change, agricultural development and food security ‘nexus’: (1) facilitating farmer exchange visits and other approaches for sharing adaptation strategies in ‘climate analogue’ areas; (2) assessing how to facilitate the use of daily and seasonal weather forecasts for farmers and how to make access to forecasts more equitable; and (3) understanding and catalysing gender-sensitive, climate-smart agricultural practices. Research teams from Bangladesh, Ghana, and Uganda helped select and further develop a range of participatory approaches along with the CCAFS and FAO researcher/trainer team. Particular attention was paid to the sampling frame and training to help ensure the guiding questions were asked in the same way, and reported in the same format, in order to allow cross-site comparison of results. The teams tested the approaches in a pilot study that covered one CCAFS site within each of the three countries, and came together again shortly afterwards to report on the results of the field test and further improve and refine the training materials based upon their experiences. This paper reports on the results and lessons learned from this pilot test in the villages of Chandipur in Bangladesh, Kyengeza in Uganda, and Doggoh in Ghana.
An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.
An intergovernmental organization, FAO has 194 Member Nations, two associate members and one member organization, the European Union. Its employees come from various cultural backgrounds and are experts in the multiple fields of activity FAO engages in. FAO’s staff capacity allows it to support improved governance inter alia, generate, develop and adapt existing tools and guidelines and provide targeted governance support as a resource to country and regional level FAO offices. Headquartered in Rome, Italy, FAO is present in over 130 countries.
