The report says nearly 1,000 women and men, representing the 53 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) member states, civil society, private organizations and international agencies took part in the four-day proceedings of the ECA's 40th Anniversary Conference, which focused on "African Women and Economic Development." The report includes quotes by Mary Chinery-Hesse, Deputy Director General, International Labor Organization (ILO) and Mats Karlsson, State Secretary of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The report includes a photograph of Hilda Memsah and Cecilia Okoroafor of the Ghana Association for Women Entrepreneurs (GAWE). The report includes a photograph of Nzambazamariya...
The report says nearly 1,000 women and men, representing the 53 United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) member states, civil society, private organizations and international agencies took part in the four-day proceedings of the ECA's 40th Anniversary Conference, which focused on "African Women and Economic Development." The report includes quotes by Mary Chinery-Hesse, Deputy Director General, International Labor Organization (ILO) and Mats Karlsson, State Secretary of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The report includes a photograph of Hilda Memsah and Cecilia Okoroafor of the Ghana Association for Women Entrepreneurs (GAWE). The report includes a photograph of Nzambazamariya Veneranda Delira, Director of Ubuntu for Development in Rwanda, and the Honorable Janat B. Mukwaya, Minister of Gender and Community Development in Uganda. The report mentions Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, Akina Mama wa Africa, Z. Ketsells Bendow, UNICEF, Yassine Fall, the Association of African Women for Research and Development (AAWORD), Battu B. Jambawai, the All Africa Council of Churches, Winnie Byanyima, the Uganda Parliament, Noleen Heyzer, UNIFEM, Asha Kambon, the African Women's Development and Communications Network, Sara H. Longwe, FEMNET, Bintou Sangoh, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFAP), K.Y, Amoaka, the Organization of African Unity (OAU), poverty eradication, the African Development Bank, the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Richard Kaijuka, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), structural adjustment programs, the World Health Organization, Souad Abdenne, Promotion of Women's Human and Legal Rights, maternal mortality, the UN Economic and Social Commission, Thelma Awori, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), Secretary General Kofi Annan, the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Bank, Dr. Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, Dr. Mohini Giri, the National Commission for Women, the Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD), the Canadian International Development Agency (CISA) Ahmed Salim Salim, Blaise Compaore, Festus Mogae, Meles Zenawi, Johns Atta-Mills, Speciosa Wandira Kazibwe, the Women's Peace Fund, Josephine Ouedraogo, the African Center for Women, and the Carnegie project.
