Events
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juillet 20, 2012
Opening Remarks by her Excellency the Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, Madam Rhoda Peace Tumusiime Delivered on the Occasion of the 3rd Meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Inter-African Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR)
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juillet 11, 2012
AUC and FAO Sign Agreement to Work Together
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juin 29, 2012
AUC Claims Bronze Award Of ‘Mercury Negotiators’
Addis Ababa – 29 June 2012 – During the 4th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) meeting (INC4) that took place in Punte del Este, Uruguay from 25-28 June 2012, the 'mercury club' of the Mercury Negotiators held an award ceremony on 27 June, where the African Union Commission, (AUC) was given a bronze award in recognition of its contributions to the negotiating process.
It is a brief ceremony, where supporters of the mercury negotiations are given a certificate signed jointly by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) Executive Director and Minister Fernando Lugris, the Chair of the INC. Patrick Aplogan, the Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), Account Assistant, received the award on behalf of the AUC.
The INC for Mercury was established by a UNEP Governing Council Decision with the mandate to prepare a global legally binding instrument on Mercury. This legally binding instrument would help control the use and handling of mercury and mercury compounds. The instrument would hopefully be broad in scope to include issues of technology transfer, low cost alternatives, producer responsibility and capacity building which would be beneficial to Africa. Mercury and its compounds are highly toxic substance which can have adverse effects on human health and the environment.
The MEAs Project is implementing inter-alia activities related to supporting African Negotiators, including those of Mercury INC. In September 2011, the MEAs Project in collaboration with UNEP Chemicals and the Burkina Faso Government held training for these negotiators in Ouagadougou. The MEAs Project further supported the negotiators in October/November 2011 by providing them legal, policy and economic expertise to strengthen the core group of negotiators at the pre-INC 3. The same support is being granted them in Uruguay for the Mercury INC 4 held from 25-28 June 2012.
For Further information please contact:
MEAs project coordinator:
Ms. Fatoumata Jallow Ndoye
Tel:00251 911898006
Email:NdoyeF@africa-union.org:
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juin 27, 2012Experts Group Meeting on Capacity Development on Land Policy in Africa
JOINT PRESS RELEASE
Experts Group Meeting on Capacity Development on Land Policy in Africa
Addis Ababa- 27 June 2012- The African Union (AU), United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Africa Development Bank (AfDB) Land Policy Initiative (LPI) is holding an Expert Group meeting (EGM) on Capacity Development for Land Policy in Africa. The EGM will take place in Addis Ababa at the AU Headquarters (CR2) on 27- 28 June 2012.
The EGM is part of the Land Policy Initiative (LPI) activities aimed at facilitating the implementation of the AU Declaration on Land issues and Challenges in Africa. It will be organized in partnership with UN-Habitat and aims at providing a review of the methodology for developing the Capacity Development Framework, reaching agreement on its content and clarifying the partnerships for its development and implementation.
The specific objectives of the EGM are to: (1) review the methodology for the preparation of the capacity development framework; (2) reach agreement on the criteria for identifying partner centers of excellence to facilitate data collection and anchor capacity development activities in Africa; (3) identify the categories of stakeholders who will be targeted by capacity development activities and from whom data and information will be collected; (4) identify development partners and related on-going initiatives that could inform the capacity development framework and provide a basis for partnerships in training activities; (5) discuss modalities to engage in capacity development initiatives at regional and national levels; and (6) agree on the content of the capacity development framework.
The EGM will gather representatives of African Governments, Regional Economic Communities, as well as African Land policy experts, Centers of Excellences and CSOs from across the Continent. Development partners will also participate in the EGM.
The discussions of the EGM will be informed by a concept note on Capacity development for Land Policy in Africa as well as a draft outline of the Capacity Development Framework.
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juin 21, 2012Mission of the Congo: African Heads of State and Government
Mission of the Congo: African Heads of State and Government
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juin 21, 2012African Ministerial Conference on Environment
African Ministerial Conference on Environment
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juin 20, 2012IRENA - High Level event on renewing Africa's Energy FutureInternational Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) - High Level event on renewing Africa's Energy Future
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juin 20, 2012 to juin 22, 2012The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) / (RIO+20)
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD) / (RIO+20)
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juin 19, 2012Africa Day: Accelerating Progress towards Sustainable Development
Africa Day: Accelerating Progress towards Sustainable Development
Rio de Janeiro, RioCentro
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juin 18, 2012Promoting a Green Economy in Africa, LDCs, SIDS, LLDC5
Promoting a Green Economy in Africa, LDCs, SIDS, LLDC5
Rio de Janeiro, RioCentro, 18 June 2012, 13:30 - 15:00 Room P3-B -
juin 18, 2012Information Seminar on Lake Chad
Information Seminar on Lake Chad
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juin 18, 2012AU-NEPAD ENGAGEMENT AT RIO+20AU-NEPAD ENGAGEMENT AT RIO+20
18 June 2012 from 10:30-13:00 Venue: Pavilion 3 Room F (P3-F)