Five African countries have embarked on a process of strengthening the accountability of their management, through training on accountability in development planning in Africa, organized by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Benin for West Africa, Kenya for East Africa, Cameroon for Central Africa, Egypt for North Africa and Zambia for Southern Africa , are the five pilot countries of the project on "Strengthening the capacities of African governments to integrate accountability into national development", of the 10th tranche of the United Nations Development Account Project, explained, Professor Sylvain Boko, adviser Principal of ECA, in charge of planning and statistics issues. “These countries are first of all those with which we already have cooperation relations in the field of planning and which have also agreed to collaborate with us within the framework of this project. We have also approached these countries to find out if this project is useful for them”, indicated Mr. Boko, explaining that the choice of the pilot countries also took into account the linguistic representation (French-speaking, English-speaking and Arabic-speaking). Obviously, he underlines, “we wanted to have a representation of the countries which are at different levels of planning on the continent and which can bring something new in terms of practice to the rest of the continent”. For the expert, the final objective of the program is to be able to make available to the rest of the continent, the tools that will be developed through this project, tools which make it possible to formulate indicators, develop fields of action and which integrate a results-based approach, to finally generalize them to the rest of the continent. Started by Egypt, the training of agents within the framework of the project is currently being held in Benin and will continue in the coming days in Cameroon, Zambia and Kenya. It brings together planning officers, statistics officers, partners, representatives of civil society organizations, private sector organizations on the theme: "Capacity building of African governments for the integration of accountability in the national development planning. It aims to improve the technical capacity of planning and statistics officers in the implementation of national strategies for integrating accountability into national planning. It is expected to strengthen the capacity of national planning institutions to develop, adopt and implement a national strategy for integrating accountability frameworks. It will also build the capacity of these institutions to collect, compile, produce and use data to monitor and evaluate the integration of accountability frameworks and evidence-based policymaking into planning processes. Several themes are covered during this training, including: "Accountability in development planning", "evaluation of public policies as a management tool for national development focused on accountability", evaluation of the impact of development programs and projects”, “overview of strategic planning”, “sectoral planning”, decentralized planning”, and “planning and budgeting for sustainable development”. The project targets, among other challenges, the capacities of these institutions in the five pilot countries before being generalized throughout the continent.