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Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
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The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) - was established in 1958 with the mandate to function as a regional branch of the UN in Africa to support economic and social development in its member states.
Documentation
The individual documents from the ECA usually carry the following symbols:
E/ Economic and Social Council |
-/ECA Economic Commission for Africa |
-/acronym for type of document or year of publication |
Ex. E/ECA/MFC.1/5 Economic and Social Council, ECA, Ministerial Follow-up Committee no 1, document no 5 |
Information about the structure and work of the Commission, full text documents and reports and news can be accessed from the official web page of the Economic Commission for Africa.
ECA submits its annual reports in the documentary series Supplements to the Official Records of the Economic and Social Council. A complete collection of these supplements in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Recent supplements are posted as ECOSOC reports on the official web site of the Economic and Social Council.
ECA individual documents are given individual symbols. Documents before 1993 can be accessed through the UN Archives of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and through the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
The most recent edition of the Economic Report on Africa is posted on the ECA web site.
Databases and Indexes
Documents are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
References to documents lwith links to full texts for recent years can be retrieved through the UNBISnet - the online catalogue of the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
The official Web Site of the Economic Commission for Africa links to ECA special databases.
Printed Indexes