ECA’s IDEP collaborates with UNDP in gender and economic management course
ECA Press Release No. 80/2010
Tunis, 28 October 2010 (ECA) - The capacity building arm of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the Institute of Development and Economic Planning (IDEP), announced today in Tunis that it is collaborating with UNDP in designing and teaching a course on Gender in Economic Management to ensure that policy makers are better equipped to handle gender issues in the development process.
ECA says this would be the first customised course of its type bringing gender to the heart of economics and finance for policy makers working in the fields of economic management and development planning.
“Through the joint UNDP-IDEP course, efforts will be made to reach a critical mass of officials of key economic and financial departments of governments who, by their mandates and role , will be critical to the transformation in gender relations,” said Emmanuel Nnadozie, Director of ECA’s Economic Development and NEPAD Division, in a remark on behalf of Adebayo Olukoshi, IDEP’s Director during the launch of the programme at the margins of the African Economic Conference.
Nnadozie said IDEP had also taken the first steps towards developing a programme on the gender dimensions of climate change and that the Institute was making complementary investments in building partnerships to better anchor gender issues in the development efforts of African governments.
He said the course is important because of the centrality of Gender in African development and the need to deepen previous efforts at integrating a gendered approach into the making of economic policy and development planning.
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