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The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is headquartered in Addis Ababa with offices in Dakar, Kigali, Lusaka, Niamey, Rabat & Yaounde. IDEAS to ACTION.

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Access to finance, logistics, sustainable market & market information & effective cross border payments are key barriers faced by African youth entrepreneurs in benefiting from intra-African trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area. #ADIF2026 @ECASROSA @ECA_OFFICIAL
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ES @ClaverGatete closed the inaugural #ADIF2026 with a clear message: history will not ask what we discussed. It will ask what we delivered. Africa is not short of ideas, the challenge is not discovery, it is delivery.
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That's why #ADIF2026 launches the Implementation Clock — tracking commitments, milestones and progress through a public Accountability Dashboard. Not what did we promise, but what did we achieve. The clock is running. #JobsForAfrica
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DES @mamakeita_mama closed #ADIF2026 with a call to every actor in the room: governments, think tanks, private sector, development partners. No single institution can create the scale of change Africa needs. The only path forward is collective action. #JobsForAfrica
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To keep that collective action accountable, she formally launched the ADIF Post-Forum Implementation Clock — a public Monitoring & Accountability Dashboard tracking commitments from idea to impact.
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The inaugural #ADIF2026 may be behind us, but the momentum it generated must now continue & translate into action.
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You want to understand why African countries are pushing for the reform of the international financial architecture? I spoke to @claverGatete of @ECA_OFFICIAL about this and more. The full exclusive interview will be out soon. But read this first👇 newtimes.co.rw/article/36484…

Why the global financial architecture is unfair to Africa 

In July 1944, the then American President Franklin D. Roosevelt brought together 730 delegates from 44 nations at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The...

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Entrepreneurs are there to solve problems. This should be instructive to young people that going into business or entrepreneurship is about solving problems, said Eunice Kamwendo, urging development partners to support African youth entrepreneurs @ECASROSA @ECA_OFFICIAL #ADIF
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Africa's creatives are not just making culture. They're making jobs. Join Session G at #ADIF2026 on the creative economy with Polycarp Otieno, Bolingo Paccy, Christine Njoki & more. 🕒 3:15 PM today #WatchLive EN: lnkd.in/ejfyyyTN FR: lnkd.in/efY6mSt3
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ECA supported the Republic of the Congo in advancing its National Data Governance Strategy through consultations, stakeholder engagement, & capacity-building activities 2–9 June 2026 A key step toward strengthening digital sovereignty & trusted data use. 👉shorturl.at/cS4U2
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A panel discussion on artificial intelligence in Africa: opportunity or destruction @ECA_OFFICIAL @ECASROSA @claverGatete #ADIF2026 #SAYoF
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#WatchLive | Day 2 – 12 June 2026 Africa Development Impact Forum 2026 📍 UNCC, Addis Ababa Join LIVE discussions on job creation, innovation & Africa’s future of work. Floor: bit.ly/49UiBaz EN: bit.ly/4vKqAj5 FR: bit.ly/4vFUWTA #Jobs #Youth #Innovation
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9 contestants. 6 judges. 1 question. 90 minutes. Today's Hack the Job Challenge at #ADIF2026 put Africa's boldest solutions to the test. The winner gets announced tomorrow. Vote for your favourite: app.sli.do/event/hYwY6FppEb2… #HackTheJobChallenge #AfricaYouth #JobCreation
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"Africa is not short of ideas. The challenge is not identifying what works, it is ensuring that successful experiences are replicated, adapted & expanded across the continent. That is precisely why we are here." H.E @ClaverGatete, Executive Secretary @ECA_OFFICIAL #ADIF2026 @ECA_OFFICIAL @ECASROSA
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"From today, you are baptized. You are now part of @ECA_OFFICIAL ." @ClaverGatete closing the Youth Dialogue on the Global Financial Architecture at #ADIF2026 — calling on young Africans to move beyond observers to informed, active shapers of the continent's financial future.
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Africa's young people didn't create the global financial architecture. But they will live longest with its consequences. Today's Youth Dialogue on the Global Financial Architecture at #ADIF2026 put that front and center.
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.@ECA_OFFICIAL Deputy Executive Secretary & Chief Economist @HananMorsy14 to the Youth Network: "You are not merely stakeholders in Africa's future. You are authors of it." #Africa #GlobalFinance #YouthEmployment
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"If Africa's greatest challenge is jobs, then Africa's greatest opportunity is also jobs. We already have the ideas, the talent, the resources. What we need now is execution." — @ClaverGatete, Executive Secretary @ECA_OFFICIAL #ADIF2026 #JobCreation #AfricaDevelopment
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"Africa does not lack ideas. The challenge is not identifying what works — it is ensuring that successful experiences are replicated, adapted and expanded across the continent. That is precisely why we are here." — @ClaverGatete, Executive Secretary @ECA_OFFICIAL #ADIF2026
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« L’Afri. ne manque pas d’idées. Des solutº innovantes st créées chaque jr. Le défi est de garantir que les exp. réussies soient reproduites, adaptées & étendues à l’ens. du continent. C’est la raison de notre présence ici ». - Claver Gatete, Sec. exéc., @ECA_OFFICIAL #ADIF2026
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« Si le plus gd défi de l’Afri. est l’emploi, c'est aussi sa plus gde opp. Ns avons déjà les idées, talents, ress., un secteur privé dynamique & le marché nécessaire pr transformer nos éco. Ns avons besoin maintenant de passer à l’actº » - Claver Gatete, Sec. exéc., @ECA_OFFICIAL
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