from advisory services: Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritius, the United Republic of Tanzania, the Central African Republic, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Botswana, Kenya, Zaire and the Sudan on requests in evaluating and analysing data from population censuses, surveys and vital registration, the provision of on-the-job and middle-level training for nationals in demographic analysis and in the formulation and implementation of population policies, integration of population variables in development planning, and evaluation of family planning programmes.
33. The secretaria~ completed a number of studies, including: Mortality levels, patterns, differentials and trends in selected African countries;
Demographic and related socio-economic data sheets for ECA member States and Household structure and fertility in sub-Saharan Africa.
34. With respect to workshops and conducted an intergovernmental expert and guidelines for the integration planning in Africa.
seminars, the secretariat organized and group meeting in Addis Ababa on a manual of population variables in development
35. In the area of population information, POPIN-Africa organized a training workshop on population information documentation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and issued the following publication: African Population Newsletter Nos.
50 and 51. Additionally, a team of six representatives of POPIN-Africa undertook from 6 to 23 July 1986, a study tour to some Asian population information centres and facilities.
36. Under regional demographic training and research, the secretariat continued the management of the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) in Ghana, the Institut de formation et de recherche demographiques (IFORD) in Cameroon and the Sahel Institute in Mali.
Natural resources Mineral resources
37. During the period under review, the secretariat provided the Eastern and Southern African Mineral Resources Development Centre (ESAMRDC) based in Dodoma, the United Republic of Tanzania, and the Central African Mineral Resources Development Centre (CAMRDC) in Brazzaville, the Congo, with technical and administrative assistance in the management of the two institutions and in the implementation of their work programmes. With regard to the Dodoma Centre, the secretariat carried out in January-February 1987, jointly with representatives from Mozambique, the United Republic of Tanzania and Uganda, an evaluation of the performance, capabilities and constraints of ESAMRDC, as recommended by the first extraordinary meeting of the Executive Board
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of ESAMRDC held in February 1986 and its Governing Council meeting held in October 1986. The secretariat also responded to the requests of the Governments of Botswana and Mozambique regarding a survey on the identification of employment opportunities in the mineral sector within Botswana and Mozambique for their nstionals currently employed in South Africa and facing
threats of expulsion to their home countries.
38. In order to increase the knowledge of the continent's minerals potential, the secretariat pursued the regional survey on aluminium and copper which was initiated in 1985, this time concentrating its efforts on three countries of the Eastern and Southern African subregion, namely: Botswana, Kenya and Mozambique. The results of the survey will be submitted to the third African Regional Conference on Mineral Resources Development and Utilization.
39. The secretariat also completed a study on the possibility of establishing partially-acidulated phosphates industries in the Sahelian countries of West Africa. The report on the study has been sent to the 50 African member States.
In connection with fertilizers, the secretariat has prepared a project document on the creation of partially-acidulated phosphates industries in Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, the Niger, Chad and a few other countries. The document has been submitted for funding to UNDP within the framework of the Fourth Programming Cycle (1987-1991).
40. Regarding training of national experts of member States, the secretariat, with the assistance of the USSR, organized in November 1986, a seminar and study tour on new exploration methods in Georgia and Armenia (USSR).
Representatives from 13 countries participated in the seminar and study tour and recommended the publication and dissemination of some thematic maps including a partially tectonic map of Africa. In conjunction with the Central African Mineral Resources Development Centre, the secretariat also organized in Zaire in December 1986, a symposium on the application of remote sensing to mineral exploration.
CartographY and remote sensing
41. During the period under review, the secretariat provided on continuous basis technical support to the activities of the Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS), Nairobi, Kenya, and the Regional Centre for Training in Aerial Surveys (RECTAS), Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
This enabled the two centres to strengthen their capabilities for multilateral co-operation and rekindled their respective member States' interests in the active participation in their affairs. More importantly, each of these centres was assisted in project formulation for external financing. Notable among the projects formulated for external funding with the Nairobi Centre were proposals for the UNDP Fourth Programming Cycle for Africa (1978-1991) and the phase II of the USAID-funded Remote Sensing Project whose Aid Agreement was subsequently executed for a period of five years (1986-1991). The secretariat also assisted in preparing the second Five-Year Development Plans of the two Centres. That of the Nairobi Centre was launched at Mbabane, Swaziland, by the Conference of Ministers responsible for surveying, mapping and remote sensing in the Eastern and Southern African subregion whilst that of the Ile-Ife Centre is yet to be finalized by the Centre's Governing Council preparatory to launching it later at ministerial level.
42. In its role as the executing agency for the UNDP-funded project of the Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS), Nairobi, the secretariat not only backstopped it but also provided technical services and got actively involved in the purchases of cartographic equipment required for the implementation of the project. I t took active part in the tripartite review of the project whose life has subsequently been extended by another six months from January to June 1987.
43. The secretariat organized and serviced from 10 to 17 November 1986 at the headquarters in Addis Ababa, the sixth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa, which had the largest attendance of all the five previous Regional Cartographic Conferences and the first, with a realistic theme of "Cartography and Remote Sensing for Development".
44. Also, in of 1986 as the "Year
secretariat of OAU, it made excellent regional levels, for the successful of Cartography and Remote Sensing in
45. The secretariat continued to take necessary steps that will lead to the speedy implementation of resolution 550 (XX) on the merger of the African Remote Sensing Council and the African Association of Cartography.
Water resources
46. In the field of water resources, the secretariat continued to provide advisory assistance at the request of member States. The UNDP Resident Representative, on behalf of the Government of Ghana, requested the assistance of ECA in organizing a donors' conference for rural and urban water supply programmes in Ghana. The secretariat responded by mounting two missions, one in February and one in September 1986, in which it was possible to advise on the preliminary activities and to undertake a survey on donor intent to support the development of the sector. Advisory services were provided to Mali, Burkina Faso and the Niger on the assessment of surface and ground water availability and on developing institutional capabilities for the appropriate exploitation and development of water resources.
47. Studies were prepared on the adequacy of hydrological networks and facilities for data processing and analysis in West Africa and the report was presented to the Council of Ministers of the West African MULPOC in January 1987.
48. A regional meeting on socio-economic and policy aspects of water resources management in Africa was convened in June 1986. The objective of the regional meeting was to assess the progress made and the constraints encountered by countries in water resources management with a view to making recommendations for a new strategy to be adopted to channel resources into priority areas and to build up national capabilities for accelerated water resources development programmes.
49. Studies on existing river basin commissions including strengthening the existing ones and the possibilities of creating have been carried out and a report presented to the ECA Conference of in April 1987.
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Energy rasourcas
50. As far as energy was concerned, the sacrctariatls activities were