Report on ECA Subregional Offices Intergovernmental Committees and Experts

Ngone Diop, Director of ECA Subregional Office for West Africa, presented a report on the objectives of the Intergovernmental Committees of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE). The ICSOEs aim to review and validate activity reports, provide strategic direction, and offer recommendations for accelerating the achievement of SDGs and Agenda 2063. The report also highlighted key dates and themes of recent ICSOE meetings, attendance details, and the election of new bureaus for different subregions.

• ECA
• Subregional Offices
• ICSOE
• Ngone Diop
• Intergovernmental Committees

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1. Report on the ECA Subregional Offices Intergovernmental Committees of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) Ngone Diop, Director, ECA Subregional Office for West Africa Thursday 18 March 2021

2. OBJECTIVES OF ICSOE Review and validate the activity report, results achieved and planned work programmed of SROs Provide strategic direction Provides platform to high-level experts of national governments, researchers, representative of the private sector and civil society to discuss recent economic and social development across the subregionspour ajouter du texte Provides recommendations (on ways to) towards accelerating the achievement of SDGs and Agenda 2063

3. DATES AND THEMES OF ICSOE BUILDING SKILLS FOR ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN CENTRAL AFRICA 11-12 November 2020 MAXIMIZING INVESTMENTS TO ACHIEVE OPTIMUM DEMOGRAPHIC DYNAMICS IN WEST AFRICA IN A COVID 19 ERA. THE IMPERATIVE OF BUILDING BACK BETTER 23-25 November 2020 SRO- CA SRO- WA THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL IMPACTS OF THE COVID-19 CRISIS: STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING BACK BETTER POLICIES AND STRATEGIES TOWARDS EFFECTIVE PRIVATE SECTOR LED GROWTH AND JOB CREATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA SRO- EA SRO- SA 23-25 November 2020 SRO- NA 28-29 October 2020 RECOVERY POLICIES FROM COVID-19 IN NORTH AFRICA 17 November 2020

4. ICSOEATTENDANCE 12 out of the 14 member States The AUC, RECs and IGOs, UN family, development partners, Private Sector, CSOs, research centres All countries from the ECCAS-CEMAC region Major RECs/IGOs: ECCAS, CEMAC, BEAC, AfDB, EU SRO-CA: SRO-EA: All member States and main IGOs represented SRO-NA: More than 200 representatives from members States; SRO-WA: RECs, IGOs, Academia/Research Institutes, UN agencies, etc. from across the 15 WA countries All member States and main IGOs represented SRO-SA:

5. ELECTION OF NEW BUREAU Vice Chair Rapporteur Chair SRO-CA: Congo Tchad Cameroon Vice Chair 1 Rapporteur Seychelles SRO-EA Chair Eritrea Tanzania Vice Chair 2 Ethiopia Vice Chair Chair Rapporteur SRO-NA: Algeria Libya Mauritania

6. ELECTION OF NEW BUREAU (contd) Vice Chair SRO-SA: Rapporteur Chair Lesotho Malawi South Africa Vice Chair Rapporteur Chair SRO-WA: Nigeria Niger Liberia

7. SRO-NA MAIN REPORTS DISCUSSED Achieving the United Nations 2030 agenda (SDGs) and the African Union 2063 Agenda in North Africa The AfCFTA potential for mitigation of COVID-19 Impact on trade in North Africa Innovation and New technologies in North Africa in the context of COVID19 North Africa facing the challenges of the post- COVID-19 era Best practices on employment creation

8. MAIN REPORTS DISCUSSED (contd) SRO-SA SRO-WA (i) Economic and social conditions in Southern Africa and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; Report on the socio-economic profile of West Africa (ii) Progress in the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement in Southern Africa; ECA's continental initiatives in support of countries sustainable development and regional integration efforts. (iii) Policies and strategies for private sector-led growth and job creation in Southern Africa; (iv) boosting the capacity of the private sector in Southern Africa to exploit the opportunities from the AfCFTA Substantive discussion on the theme of the meeting during which, experts analysed the impacts on Covid 19 on demographic dynamics, on countries socio-economic prospects and policies needed to build forward

9. MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ICSOE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS FROM ICSOE

10. SRO-CA MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS SRO-EA MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS Launch the decade for economic diversification in Central Africa with the aim to mobilizing leadership and other stakeholders Take strategic measures to address debt vulnerabilities Promote learning and skills development strategies which are aligned with industrial policies and economic diversification strategies Harness the potential of regional integration to respond to COVID-19 Promote innovative financing and inclusive partnerships Accelerate the implementation of AcfTA through the creation of value chains in the agro-industry; pharmaceutical; oil Raise awareness of AcfTA among the private sector Learn from success stories in Africa and beyond and reinforce the role of Special economic zones (SEZ) and other industrial clusters Promote soft skills development and encourage skills certification, harmonization and portability in the framework of the central Africa regional integration programmes Harness the potential of tourism and the blue economy for economic diversification and growth

11. SRO-SA MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS SRO-WA - MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS Respond decisively to COVID-19 s health and socioeconomic impacts including through effective collaboration Adopt a budgeting sensitive to the demographic dividend for the implementation of population policies including and other public policies Increase investment in vital statistics Request for debt restructuring with creditors on terms that would support country responses to Covid 19 socio-economic impacts Develop partnerships at the regional level to manufacture products required by the health sector, to respond COVID-19 and other such pandemics Countries which have not yet produced annual local (VLRs) and voluntary national (VNRs) encouraged to do so Develop mechanisms and strategies to unlock domestic financing towards initiatives for build forward better, Support capacity strengthening of national observatories for population and demographic dividend Implement gender responsive and youth-inclusive strategies as anchors for industrialization, growth and job creation in the region Support the rebasing of countries' GDPs, to harmonize and update the base year of national accounts in all countries

12. THANK YOU! Follow the conversation: #COM2021 More: www.uneca.org/cfm2021