What specific activities under SIA aim to foster good governance?
A. Under SIA framework, a series of consultative conferences on governance that emphasize building of partnerships among stakeholders through consensus have been held. • The first such conference was held in May, 1997 at ECA headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and drew participants from the civil society organisations throughout Africa. • This was followed by Regional Consultative Meeting on Communication for Peace-building in Africa, co-hosted by UNESCO and ECA in June 1997. • In the following month the first Africa Governance Forum held at the same venue. • These activities directly fed into the International Conference on Governance for Sustainable Growth and Equity held at the United Nations General Assembly Hall, New York, in July 1997. • At the New York conference, fundamental challenges to governance were highlighted. • In March 1998 another conference on governance was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the theme “Consolidating the Institutional Foundations.” • The Second Afric
