High-level Event on Africa Week

Africa Week 2017: Briefing by African Regional Economic Communities to Member States and United Nations System on: "Regional and Economic Integration in Africa: How to Effectively Involve Africa's Youth across National Borders"

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Side Events
• Video Length: 01:58:57
• Production Date: 18 October 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Personal Subject: AMINA J. MOHAMMED
• Corporate Name: AFRICAN UNION - AU; ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA - ECA; NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT - NEPAD; OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON AFRICA - OSAA
• Subject Topical: 2030 AGENDA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; YOUTH
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 2007815
• Parent Id: 2006372

Description

Regional economic integration in Africa: how to effectively involve Africa’s youth across national borders.

Theme for 2017: "Supporting an Integrated, Prosperous, People-centred, Peaceful Africa: Towards the Implementation of Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development".

Africa Week celebrates and showcases Africa’s continuous advancements and achievements with respect to social, economic, political and environmental development. The Week also brings to the fore awareness on the new and emerging challenges confronting the continent, with an aim to mobilize international support at the global level for Africa’s development priorities and its inclusive transformative agenda.

Co-organized by the African Union Permanent Observer Mission, the Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA), the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Department of Public Information, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Planning and Coordinating Agency and the African Peer Review Mechanism.