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Strengthening UN country teams' capacity on sovereign credit ratings and development finance
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 22 September 2026 – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO), has launched a specialized training series aimed at strengthening the capacity of United Nations Resident Coordinator Offices (RCOs) to better understand the implications of sovereign credit ratings for macroeconomic policy, debt sustainability, and development finance.
New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres
How do you make sense of a world facing interconnected crises, from poverty and hunger to climate change, if the facts are scattered across dozens of different places?
New York, 17 September 2026 - The United Nations system is hoping to make that task much easier with the launch of the UN System Data Commons, a new online platform that brings together data and statistics from across the Organization into a single gateway.
Experts call for accelerated action to make AfCFTA trade and investment more inclusive in Eastern Africa
Kigali, Rwanda, 16 September 2026 (ECA) – The UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), through its Office for Eastern Africa (SRO-EA), convened an online Expert Group Workshop on“Advancing Inclusive Trade and Investment under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)”, bringing together policymakers, regional organizations, researchers, youth Organizations, young Entrepreneurs as well as private sector stakeholders from across Eastern Africa.