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In the heart of Ethiopia’s capital city, and Africa’s political centre, Addis Ababa, the ECA Conference Center is the ultimate venue for your meetings and conferences. Just 10 minutes’ drive from the airport, with air links to about 100 cities worldwide, right next to the offices of UNECA and other UN specialised agencies, ECACC is the ideal address for leaders driving the global agenda.

Elegant architecture and innovative technology blend seamlessly to create a world-class venue, unprecedented in Africa, offering:

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STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FULLY INTEGRATED COMPLETELY SECURED

WHERE WORLD LEADERS CONVENE.

WHERE GLOBAL DECISIONS ARE MADE.

Your meeting space in Addis Ababa

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2017CALENDAR OF

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS AND EVENTS

In the heart of Ethiopia’s capital city, and Africa’s political centre, Addis Ababa, the ECA Conference Center is the ultimate venue for your meetings and conferences. Just 10 minutes’ drive from the airport, with air links to about 100 cities worldwide, right next to the offices of UNECA and other UN specialised agencies, ECACC is the ideal address for leaders driving the global agenda.

Elegant architecture and innovative technology blend seamlessly to create a world-class venue, unprecedented in Africa, offering:

state-of-the-art facilitieslarge meeting roomsexhibition spaceadvanced audio-visual equipmentvideo editing suitesradio-broadcasting studiowell-equipped business centrehigh-speed wireless internet connections catering services

STRATEGICALLY LOCATED FULLY INTEGRATED COMPLETELY SECURED

WHERE WORLD LEADERS CONVENE.

WHERE GLOBAL DECISIONS ARE MADE.

Your meeting space in Addis Ababa

For booking and enquiries, contactUNCC-AA@uneca.org

UNCCAddis

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2 Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events - 2017

January22 23 Africa Union Pre-summit- Gender

is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) meeting

Addis Ababa

23 23 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in West Africa

Dakar

February5 9 Mining Indaba 2017 Cape Town13 17 Fourth Conference of African

ministers responsible for civil registration

Nouakchott

26 27 Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for West Africa

Ouagadougou

TBC TBC Governance of maritime resources and activities for a sustainable development in Africa

Addis Ababa

Calendar of Conferences, Meetings and Events*

* This calendar will include in due course, the 10th African Development Forum (ADF X), which was postponed in 2016.

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March7 10 Annual session of the

Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for North Africa

Rabat

23 28 African Development Week Tenth Joint Annual Meetings of the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the African Union Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration:• Committee of Experts• Ministerial Segment• Caucus meeting of Governors of

Central Banks in Africa• General Assembly of former

African Heads of State• Prof. Adebayo Adedeji Annual

Lecture Series• Meeting of the African Institutes

for Remittances• Launch of the Economic Report

on Africa (ERA) - 2017

Dakar

25 26 18th 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

Dakar

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June28 29 Review of policy mapping and

inclusive economies and Launch of the Policy Mapping Report

Kampala

July28 29 2017 Substantive Session of the

United Nations Economic and Social Council - High-level segment

• High-level political forum on sustainable development

• Annual ministerial review • Development cooperation

forum

New York

September23 23 Committee on Gender and Social

Development (CGSD)Addis Ababa

TBC TBC Regional Coordination Mechanism-Triennial Review Ten-Year Capacity Building Programme (TYCBP)

Addis Ababa

October17 18 Annual meeting of the Subregional

Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in Central Africa

Douala

18 19 Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in West Africa

Dakar

24 24 Observance of UN Day Addis Ababa25 25 Observance of UN Staff Day Addis Ababa

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24 26 North Africa Development Forum Marrakech 25 27 Regional Committee of the

United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management for Africa (UN-GGIM:Africa)

Addis Ababa

TBC TBC Annual session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Subregional Office for East Africa

Moroni

November23 24 Annual session of the

Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of ECA’s Sub-regional Office for Central Africa

Malabo

TBC TBC Annual meeting of the Subregional Coordination Mechanism (SRCM) for the United Nations system-wide support to the African Union and its NEPAD programme in East and Southern Africa

TBC

TBC TBC African Economic Conference Addis AbabaTBC TBC Subregional Coordination

Mechanism for the United Nations system-wide support to the AU and its NEPAD programme for Eastern and Southern Africa

TBC

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

Please visit our website at www.uneca.org/events for quarterly updates.

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