Intergovernmental Machinery

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Twentysixth meeting of the Committee of
Experts 29 March 1 April 2007 Addis Ababa

• Intergovernmental Machinery
• A Review

Office of Strategic Planning and Programme
Management
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Introduction

• Role
• Provide guidance and advice to the work of the
  Commission
• Structure
• Legislative organs
• Subsidiary organs

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Previous changes

• Major review adopted in 1997 at the 32nd
  session of the Commission
• Other changes
• Algiers 2001 to hold a joint annual conference
  of Africas Ministers of Finance and Ministers of
  Economic Development and Planning
• Johannesburg 2002 to convene annual ECA and AfDB
  meetings back-to-back

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Rationale for a review in 2007

• Align the intergovernmental machinery with the
  new strategic orientation and programme structure
  of ECA

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Current structure of the machinery

• Legislative organs
• Conference of African Ministers of Finance,
  Planning and Economic Development and its
  Committee of Experts
• Intergovernmental Committees of Experts (ICEs)
  for the five subregional offices (SROs)

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Current structure of the machinery

• Five sectoral committees
• Women, Gender and Development
• Development Information
• Sustainable Development
• Human Development and Civil Society
• Trade, Regional Integration and Cooperation

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Proposed Structure

• What is new?
• AU and ECA to jointly organize the annual
  Conference of African Ministers of Finance,
  Planning and Economic Development
• Convert the ICEs into Subregional Ministerial
  Conferences
• Increase the number of sectoral committees to
  align them with the new subprogrammes

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PROPOSED INTERGOVERNMENTALMACHINERY OF THE
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA
Subregional Ministerial Conferences
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