B. Proposed structure for the Africa Programme secretariat Figure II presents the proposed schematic of the structure for the Africa Programme secretariat, which has two units with the purpose and an outline of functions for each of them. The secretariat will continue to operate from the African Centre for Statistics in ECA. The Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Section of the Centre will manage the secretariat under the supervision of the Director of the Centre. The manager will lead and administer the Africa Programme and drive strategic institutional change in the Centre and in the countries. The manager reports to the Director and the civil registration and vital statistics Africa Core Group. The secretariat will work closely, through the Director, with the proposed Committee of Registrar Generals, when the Conference of Ministers responsible for Civil Registration has approved the intergovernmental body. The secretariat will have a programme coordination and integration team leader and two other units. Figure II Organizational structure for the Africa Programme secretariat Ministers responsible African Section/Africa n 1 P3, 1 P3, 24