Common Country Assessment (CCA)

United Nations' Country Team and the Government of Eritrea (GOE) prepared the 2005 Common Country Assessment (CCA) jointly in the sprit of co-ownership to update the 2001 CCA. The UN and the Government co-chaired the Steering Committee and appointed a Task Force to guide the process with technical inputs from nine thematic groups comprising: emergency and recovery; food security; economic growth and development; education; health and nutrition; water, sanitation and shelter; governance; HIV/AIDS; and environment and energy. A policy retreat further defined the strategic focus of the final CCA.

Since the last CCA, the GOE is taking critical measures in the areas of policy reform. The Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP), Education Sector Development Program (ESDP), HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Sexually transmitted diseases, and Tuberclosis (HAMSET) Project, Integrated Recovery Program and the National Gender Policy, the National Water Supply Emergency Action Plan and the Rural Electrification Fund are among some of the key policies, plans and programs formulated to guide the country. The effort to implement the decentralization policy as a means towards greater involvement of communities is underway. The country's commitment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and its ratification of international human rights' instruments strengthens the commitment of Eritrea to rebuild the nation through engagement in community and entrepreneurial activities. Eritreans within the country and in the Diaspora remain a foundational socio-economic and knowledge base for the recovery and reconstruction effort.