The sub regional office for Southern Africa, which is based in Lusaka, Zambia, derives its programmatic direction and guidance from its Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) constituted by Commission Resolution 826 ...

In the midst of the most serious global financial crisis in a century, a new report on monetary and financial integration in Africa will be released on 21 November by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...

The Sixth Session of the Committee on Trade, Regional Cooperation and Integration was held from 13 to 15 October 2009 at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The main focus ...

There is an ever-increasing premium placed on the goal of improved coordination among UN agencies as a means of enhancing UN coherence and getting the highest possible value on the ground from limited resources. The SG’s ...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) today launched a ground-breaking publication on regional integration in Africa. The report, called Assessing Regional Integration in Africa (ARIA), provides a comprehensive evaluation ...

In Africa, regional economic integration has quite a long history and, in some subregions, predates independence. Well before the establishment of the African Union, African leaders had recognized that economic cooperation ...

The programme of the Centre is consistent with the revised resolution 830 (MFCI) of 27 April 1998 adopted by the Ministerial Follow-up Committee of the Conference of Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development ...

Economic and monetary union is one of the aims of the African Union. The Constitutive Act of the AU commits Africa to setting up the African Central Bank, the African Monetary Fund and the African Investment Bank (Article ...

Regional cooperation and integration in Southern Africa has been increasingly accepted and promoted by all the countries, it being considered as one of the solutions to the limitations of their tiny national economies. The ...

Lors du Sommet des chefs d’État et de gouvernement de l’Union africaine (UA) tenu en février 2008 à Addis-Abeba, ceux-ci ont déclaré au sujet des accords de partenariat qu’il conviendrait que l’Union européenne renforce ...