Harmonization and co-ordination of national plans at the sub regional level

Abstract

Sectoral planning at the sub regional level is considered as one of the best ways of analyzing, co-ordinating, harmonizing and monitoring the implementation of development policies that can make a substantial contribution to speeding up and intensifying subregional and regional economic co-operation and integration. Nevertheless, the scant progress made in African economic planning since the attainment of independence because of enormous and manifold difficulties and dependence on the outside world particularly in the field of technological, economic and financial resources; ill-suited production, transport and distribution systems; under-utilization of industrial capacity and others) show the complexity and scope of the undertaking.