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Mainstreaming road safety in national development and transport planning processes in Africa
No full textThe present policy paper is focused on road traffic injury as a mobility and development problem, in the context of national development and transport planning processes. Specific road safety programmes are at greater risk of failure if they are not being developed and implemented within mobility and development frameworks that: (a) Recognize the scale of the problem; (b) Value the social and economic benefits of tackling the problem; (c) Approach the problem in a systematic manner with the community. The present paper sets out the reasons for which road safety should be mainstreamed within national development and transport planning processes and provides guidance on the achievement of that goal. Mainstreaming road safety into national transport and development policies and plans is expected to support the preparation and implementation of well-designed and targeted national road safety strategies and action plans, and improved road safety results
Rapport sur le développement durable en Afrique 2024:Renforcer le Programme 2030 et l’Agenda 2063 et éliminer la pauvreté en période de crises multiples : la mise en œuvre efficace de solutions durables, résilientes et innovantes.
No full textLe Rapport sur le développement durable en Afrique 2024 (RADD) contient un examen de l’état de la mise en œuvre des deux programmes en Afrique et des recommandations pour en faciliter l’exécution. Comme les années précédentes, le rapport de 2024 s’aligne sur le thème et les objectifs de développement durable (ODD) correspondants du forum politique de haut niveau pour le développement durable sélectionnés pour une année donnée. En l’espèce, les ODD en cours d’examen par le forum politique de haut niveau pour le développement durable 2024 portent sur l’élimination de la pauvreté (Objectif 1) ; l’élimination de la faim (Objectif 2) ; la lutte contre les effets des changements climatiques (Objectif 13) ; la promotion de sociétés pacifiques (Objectif 16) et le renforcement des partenariats mondiaux (Objectif 17). Chaque ODD est analysé par rapport à l’objectif correspondant de l’Agenda 2063 de l’Union africaine. Les conclusions du rapport soulignent la nécessité pour l’Afrique d’accélérer les progrès sur les ODD 1, 2 et 17, d’inverser la tendance négative concernant l’action climatique (Objectif 13) et de renforcer les systèmes statistiques pour suivre les réalisations, en particulier s’agissant de la bonne gouvernance (ODD 16), où un manque criant de données empêche le suivi des résultats. Pour l’Afrique, moins de six-pour cent des 32 cibles mesurables des ODD sont en passe d’être atteintes d’ici 2030. Sur les objectifs mesurables restants, 21 doivent être atteints dans la région et les tendances négatives pour 8 autres doivent être inversées. Dans l’ensemble, le manque de données empêche de dresser un tableau complet des performances du continent
Thirtieth meeting of the intergovernmental committee of senior officials and experts of Southern Africa: information note
No full textThe 30th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts and Senior Officers (ICSOE) of Southern Africa will be convened by the ECA Sub regional Office for Southern Africa (SRO-SA) and hosted by the Government of the Republic of Zambia. The meeting will be held at the AVANI Victoria Falls Resort in Livingstone, from 18th to 21st November 2024, under the theme: “Addressing the energy deficit in Southern Africa through investments in new and renewable energy technologies to reduce energy poverty and accelerate sustainable industrialization and structural transformation”
Policy position paper towards a digital economy policy framework for Africa: policy paper
No full textThis position paper by the Economic Commission for Africa, acknowledging previous contributions, aims to stimulate rapid growth through synergistic leveraging of mandates and capacities among stakeholders. It provides a situational analysis of the digital economy landscape in Africa, including basic digital infrastructure, enabling frameworks, and stakeholder contributions. The paper highlights the African Union's progressive journey towards a digital economy and the supportive measures it has implemented
Mapping carbon and forest certification, and related economic benefits to investors in the transition to net zero: examples from the countries participating in the Congo Basin Blue Fund
No full textThe world’s three largest tropical rainforests are located in the Amazon, the Congo
River Basin and South-East Asia. Over the past 20 years, forests across South-East Asia have
collectively become a net source of carbon emissions due to clearing for plantations,
uncontrolled fires and drainage of peat soils. The Amazon River Basin, which stretches across
nine countries in South America, is still a net carbon sink, but teeters on the edge of becoming
a net source if forest loss continues at current rates. The Amazon Basin has experienced
heightened deforestation over the past four years due to clearance for cattle pasture and
degradation from fires.
Of the world’s three largest tropical rainforests, only the Congo Basin has enough
standing forest left to remain a strong net carbon sink. The Congo’s tropical rainforest
sequesters 600 million metric tons more carbon dioxide per year than it emits, which is
equivalent to about one third of the carbon dioxide emissions from all transportation in the
United States of America. Protecting the remaining forests in the Congo River region is critical
to mitigating climate change
Digital identity use case for Kaduna State pensioners: Case study
No full textAfrica has the largest number of people living without any form of identity document, numbering 470 million in total. These people lack access to vital services, including health care, social protection, education, and finance. Closing the global identity gap requires a coordinated effort and tried and tested interventions aimed at accelerating progress towards target 16.9 of the Sustainable Development Goals: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration”, and in line with indicator 17.19.2, which gives increased impetus for improving civil registration and vital statistics systems. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has been working in close collaboration with the Kaduna State government, the Kaduna State Residents Identity Management Agency, and the Kaduna State Pension Bureau on the conduct of a digital identity use case, with a view to simplifying and digitalizing the process of establishing and verifying the identity of pensioners. ECA developed an application for the Pension Bureau to replace the physical verification exercise that the 16,651 State and local government pensioners had to undertake every 90 days. The Kaduna State Pension Bureau use case is one of the Centre’s signature projects in advancing the adoption of digital identity systems in Africa. The Kaduna State government requested the support of the ECA Digital Centre of Excellence to assist with the scoping, preparation and launch of a digital identity and electronic civil registration and vital statistics use case solution. The objective of the assessment was to enhance and demonstrate inclusiveness, to facilitate the development of a digital economy, consistent with and reflecting best practices, and to use the insights and learning from the pilot to develop a policy for the leveraging of digital identity in all aspects of governance in Kaduna State
Leveraging local content policies to accelerate growth and development of micro small and medium-sized enterprises in Southern Africa.
No full textAccording to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), local content policies are “policies imposed by governments that require firms to use domestically manufactured goods or domestically supplied services in order to operate in an economy” (OECD, 2016). Developed and developing countries employ local content policies to promote the use of local inputs and to protect and foster domestic industries. A central objective of local content policies is to create jobs, stimulate local industrial development and respond to calls to address policy failures and stimulate resource based economic transformation. An increasing number of countries have introduced or reinforced local content policies with a view to stimulating the use of local labor, capital and supplies of goods and services to create value in the domestic economy and hence expand the industrial sector. As noted in Dobbs and others (2013), 90 per cent of resource-rich countries apply one form of local content policies or another, aimed at developing and deepening economic linkages between the extractive sector and the rest of the economy. Of the countries that were surveyed, six are in southern Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe). Well-functioning local content policies can assist countries in boosting their productivity and moving up the value chain, thereby ultimately improving their international competitiveness. In summary, the objectives of local content policies are, among other things, to facilitate increased use of competitive national goods and services, expand commercial cooperation between national and foreign companies, enhance the sophistication of national financial institutions, and develop linkages among industries in the context of global value chains
Regional Digital Trade Integration Index 2.0: A Guide :ESCAP-ECA-ECLAC Initiative on Digital Trade Regulatory Integration
No full textThis RDTII Guide, now in its second edition, serves as a handbook designed to assist policymakers and policy researchers in analyzing digital trade regulations. The Guide complements RDTII version 2.0, a common framework developed in collaboration with the European University Institute and utilized by ESCAP, ECA and ECLAC for digital trade regulatory analysis. Users of this guide are recommended to use it in conjunction with the ESCAP-ECA-ECLAC Digital Trade Regulatory Review for Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, 2023 and 2024 versions. The guide provides essential explanations of the structure and rationale of RDTII 2.0, along with guidance on data collection and sources. It is also useful for those who will use the index and related indicators for policy analysis. The RDTII framework, a multidimensional cross-economy index of digital trade regulatory integration, is expected to require continuous adjustments as the challenges and policy trade-offs associated with the fast-growing digital trade and the global digital economy are better understood. As such, this guide is considered a living document to be updated as the United Nations Regional Commissions and partners work together to further improve the index and the data collection process
Directory of African environmental experts and list of institutions on environmental matters in Africa: edition 2
No full textThe Directory is an initiative which should help ECA member States to promote technical co-operation themselves, particularly in expertise in solving environmental problems. It should also be of assistance to members of the United Nations system and international organizations as a reference for consultants on environmental projects. The Directory will also serve 8S a planning tool for the development of the environmental manpower capability required for the implementation of the Industrial Development Decade for Africa and for the protection of the African environment in general. The main objectives of the Directory are to promote Collaboration between national environmental machineries at the subregional and regional levels by providing information on the addresses of such institutions and to identify African environmental specialists who have been engaged in various capacities at universities, government research institutions or working with non-governmental organizations to solve local environmental problems
Understanding the Carbon Market Landscape: Article 6 of the Paris Agreement Explained (frequently asked questions)
No full textWith the adoption of the Paris Agreement, and more particularly the Article 6 related to the international cooperation between the Parties for the achievement of their NDCs for a higher ambition in mitigation and adaptation actions, the landscape of carbon markets previously classified as voluntary and regulated (compliance) according to the standards that generated and certified units of emission reduction or GHG sequestration has completely changed. Voluntary standards such as Verra, Gold Standard, GCC, Art-Tree, etc., only issued certified units for the voluntary market. However, with the emergence of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, many of these standards plan to generate certified units with corresponding adjustments which could be used in the regulated markets set up under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement, but also in the new market set up by civil aviation (CORSIA) or for other uses not yet specified. They will also continue to issue units exclusively for the voluntary market. It is therefore necessary for all actors to understand as simply as possible the different concepts, processes and terms emerging with the adoption of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and the rules governing it. Here are some frequently asked questions (FAQs) on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which covers voluntary cooperation between countries to achieve their climate goals