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2019CALENDAR OF

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2 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2019

2019 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events

January14 17 Managing security resources in Africa Addis Ababa

17 17 Enhancing policy coherence for the SDGs through integrated climate, land, energy and water (CLEWs) assessments and institutional strengthening in Ethiopia

Addis Ababa

30 31 Intergovernmental peer review of national strategies for strengthening accountability in development planning

Addis Ababa

February3 4 33rd GIMAC pre-summit consultative

meeting on GenderAddis Ababa

4 7 Mining Indaba Cape Town

8 9 The Katowice Climate Package: Implications of COP24 outcomes on responding to climate-induced human insecurity in Africa

Addis Ababa

9 9 Launch of the Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy

Addis Ababa

12 12 Africa Health Business Forum-2019 on the theme “Transforming health outcomes”

Addis Ababa

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19 22 Retreat of Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) Cluster Coordinators

Addis Ababa

27 01 Mar.

Meeting of the African Trade Policy Centre Steering Committee

Libreville

March11 13 Regional workshop on analysis of

mortality and cause of death statisticsAddis Ababa

18 19 Africa Region: Mid-term review of the Vienna Plan of Action (VPoA)

Marrakesh

20 26 52nd session of the Economic Commission for Africa – Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development on the theme “Fiscal policy, trade and the private sector in the digital era: a strategy for Africa”• Thirty-eighth meeting of the

Committee of Experts• Ministerial segment• Annual Adebayo Adedeji Lecture• Launch of the 2019 Economic

Report on Africa (ERA)• Launch of the ECA 60th anniversary

book

Marrakesh

23 24 Twentieth session of the Regional Coordination Mechanism for Africa (RCM-Africa) of UN agencies and organizations working in Africa in support of the African Union and its NEPAD programme

Marrakesh

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24 24 Eighth North Africa Development Forum The Blue Economy in North Africa: The Efficiency of Maritime Transport in Facilitating International Trade in the Digital Age

Marrakesh

24 24 Side event on the Sahel Marrakesh

April8 9 ECOSOC Youth Forum New York

15 18 ECOSOC fourth Forum on Financing for Development follow-up

New York

16 18 Fifth session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development on the theme “Empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality”

Marrakesh

22 24 Regional workshop for the Implementation Guide of the Integrated Geospatial Information Framework (IGIF)

Addis Ababa

23 25 Regional dialogue workshop on demographic dividend with a gender dimension

Addis Ababa

24 25 North Africa Regional High-Level Dialogue on Employment: Development Strategies and Policies for Employment Creation in North Africa

Rabat

May2 4 First Meeting of the Boosting Intra-

African Trade Regional Task Force for Central Africa

Douala

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8 10 Twenty-Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior officials and Experts (ICE 22nd) of the Subregional Office for West Africa on “Demographic dynamics for sustainable development in West Africa: challenges and policy actions”

Robertsfield

14 15 ECOSOC multi-stakeholder forum on science, technology and innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals

New York

21 23 ECOSOC Operational Activities Segment

New York

23 24 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA Lusaka

June6 7 ECOSOC Coordination and

Management MeetingsNew York

11 13 Annual session of the Sub-Regional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for Eastern and Southern Africa

Addis Ababa

19 20 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA Harare

24 26 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment New York

24 25 Regional Trade Forum for West and Central Africa

Dakar

24 26 ECOSOC Humanitarian Affairs Segment New York

25 25 57th Session of IDEP Governing Council Dakar

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27 28 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA for Horn of Africa

Addis Ababa

July3 3 High Level Panel on Migration Report

LaunchNiamey

3 5 Global review of Aid for Trade Geneva

8 8 ECOSOC Integration Segment New York

9 12 Implementing the 2008 System of National Accounts in Africa

Addis Ababa

9 19 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, including three-day ministerial meeting of the forum (16 - 18 July)

New York

16 16 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA Kampala

18 19 Sixth Annual Consultative Meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism for North Africa

Rabat

23 23 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA Nairobi

23 24 ECOSOC Coordination and Management Meetings

New York

30 30 Consultative Forum on the AfCFTA Kinshasa

30 31 Africa Trade Forum on “AfCFTA ratification and implementation: boosting competitiveness and job creation through regional trade and investment”

Johannesburg

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31 1 Aug

Co-ordination Meeting on “Enhanced Quality of Informal Cross-border Trade (ICBT) in the ECOWAS Region”

Abuja

AugustTBD Committee on Sustainable

DevelopmentTBD

5 6 Strategic Infrastructure Partnership Meeting

Pretoria

19 21 High Level Policy Dialogue: AfCFTA:Implications for Promoting the GhanianPrivate Sector, Boosting Competitiveness and Creating Jobs

Accra

28 30 Eighth Climate Change and Development in Africa (CCDA) Conference

Addis Ababa

September2 3 EGM to Review the AfCFTA Country

Busines Index MethodologyAddis Ababa

2 3 Regulatory Review of the African Energy Sector to Facilitate Private Sector Investment

Addis Ababa

5 6 Global Forum on Human Settlement in the Digital Era

Addis Ababa

10 13 Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) on the theme: Strategies and Policies for the Promotion of SME’s in the Industrialization Process in Southern Africa

Ezulwini

16 17 AfCFTA National Forum in Nairobi Nairobi

16 20 Fifth Annual Economic Agreements Conference

Addis Ababa

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16 20 Technical Training on Energy Planning Using OSeMOSYS

Addis Ababa

17 19 Colloquium on single currency in West Africa

Accra

17 30 United Nations General Assembly New York

24 27 35th session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) for Central Africa under the theme: “Digital Transformations and Economic Diversification in Central Africa: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities” (side-by-side: ad hoc expert group meetings on the AfCFTA SDGS; and a high-level policy dialogue on the status of structural transformation in Central Africa).

Malabo

25 27 Monitoring of sustainable development indicators

TBD

26 27 Policy Dialogue on Blue Economy and Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable Development

Seychelles

TBD Cities, economic diversification and industrialization

N’Djamena

TBD AfCFTA National Forum in Kampala Kampala

TBD ACP Steering Committee Meeting Arusha

October30

Sept4 Energy Access Expansion Planning

OnSSET Planning ToolAddis Ababa

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1 3 Regional thematic conference on “Managing a statistical organization in times of change”

Pretoria

2 3 Africa Trade Forum on “AfCFTA Ratification and Implementation: Boosting Competitiveness and Job Creation through Regional Trade and Investment”

Johannesburg

8 9 Policy Dialogue on Land, Identity and Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation in Southern Africa

Johannesburg

14 18 Fifth Conference of African Ministers Responsible for Civil Registration

Lusaka

22 23 Policy Seminar on Governance of State -owned Enterprises in South Africa: Enhancing Efficiency, Accountability and Better Service Delivery

Johannesburg

23 27 37th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts for Central Africa

Malabo

25 26 Policy Dialogue with United Nations Resident Coordinators (RC) on Sahel 2043

Dakar

28 30 National Transfer Account Conference in Africa: High-level dialogue on Demographic Dynamics for Development

Dakar

27 1 Nov

10th Regional Conference on Beijing+25 Addis Ababa

29 30 Policy Seminar on Debt and Development in Africa

Lusaka

TBD Seventh meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa

Livingstone

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TBD Capacity building for African Development Planning Officials on the application of the Integrated Planning and Reporting Toolkit.

Addis Ababa

TBD First Meeting on the AfCFTA State Parties

TBD

November1 2 Annual meeting of the Subregional

Coordination Mechanism for the UN system-wide support to the AU and its NEPAD programme in West Africa

Dakar

4 6 Regional Policy Dialogue on Sahel 2043 Ouagadougou

5 7 23rd Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA Sub-regional Office for Eastern Africa

Asmara

12 13 The role of cities in domestic resource mobilization

Addis Ababa

12 13 EGM on African Women Report Addis Ababa

14 15 The First Session of the Committee on Social Policy, Poverty and Gender

Addis Ababa (UNCC)

20 23 Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM: Africa)

Addis Ababa

25 29 Conference on Land Policy in Africa (CLPA-2019) on the theme “Winning the fight against corruption in the land sector: Sustainable pathway for Africa’s transformation”

Abidjan

25 28 Intergovernmental Committee of Senior Officials and Experts (ICSOE) on the theme: «The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) and Employment: The Impact of Improving Trade Facilitation and Regional Integration in North Africa»

Aswan

25 26 Trade Facilitation in North Africa for Enhanced Regional Economic Integration challenges, Opportunities and the way Forward

Aswan

27 28 Technical Advisory Committee Dakar

TBD Capacity building for policymakers on mainstreaming social development in national development planning

Addis Ababa

TBD Geospatial datasets for monitoring Sustainable Development Goals

TBD

December2 4 African Economic Conference 2019 Sharm El Sheikh

3 4 Tenth Annual meeting of the Central Africa Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM-CA) for the United Nations system-wide support to AU and its NEPAD Programme

Libreville

3 6 Third Regional Dialogue on WTO Accessions for the Greater Horn of Africa

Addis Ababa

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5 7 13th edition of the International Colloquium of Rabat on the theme: The Continental Free Trade Area and Regional Integration in Africa as Levers for Sustainable growth and job creation

Rabat

16 17 Private Sector Financing and Job Creation in North Africa (Expert Group Meeting)

Rabat

TBD 58th Session of IDEP Governing Council Dakar

TBD Committee on Private Sector Development, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology

TBD

Information presented in this Calendar is subject to change in terms of date and/or venue, and to corrections by the ECA secretariat.

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